AllFreeNovel
Share Us
A chill swept through me, stealing my breath and weakening my muscles as every crippling nightmare devoured me.
Beck had finished giving me the full recap of his conversation with Jessica from a couple days before when his phone rang, lighting up with Conor’s name.
We both stilled when we saw the screen, and it felt like it took minutes for Beck to answer and put it on speaker.
“Yeah?”
There was no reply, and it felt like the pressing weight in the room as we waited for Conor to either hang up or say something was going to crush me.
And then we heard it.
Distant.
Muffled.
And enough to make me go still and my breathing stop.
A scream.
Jessica.
Beck’s head snapped up, his eyes wide with panic and fear.
The last thing I remembered was the call ending.
The next thing I knew I was pinned against the hallway wall outside Beck’s room, my breaths ripping from me. My arms wrenched behind me as Beck shook from the strain of trying to keep me there. My throat was hoarse as I yelled, “I’m gonna kill him.”
“We will,” Beck said, his voice ragged, like he’d been saying it for a while. “We will.”
“Let me go,” I roared, my voice echoing down the halls.
“I can’t, man.” A wet choking noise sounded from behind me. “I want to, but you know I can’t.”
“I’ll fucking murder you if you don’t let me go,” I said through gritted teeth.
Beck shifted me enough to slam me against the wall. “I love her too,” he yelled. “But you’re going to ruin everything. You’re going to get Conor killed.”
“Beck.”
A minute must have passed before he rammed me against the wall again and released me. “You’re going to get everyone killed.”
“Fuck you,” I roared.
“I love her too.”
“You have a fucked-up way of showing it.”
“You’re not thinking right,” he said when I started by him and slammed a hand on my shoulder.
I turned and had a knife to his throat within a second. “Did you hear her? Did that shred your soul too?”
The tears already filling his eyes was answer enough. “We need to find his assassin,” he said.
“That girl is mine. I’ll kill everyone who gets in my way of her again.”
He shook his head. “You’re gonna get us all killed.”
My mouth twisted in a dry smirk. “That’s one way to be free of this bullshit.” I dropped my arm and turned, calling over my shoulder, “See you in hell, Beck.”
