Wife’s best friend and brother’s girl doesn’t give her the right to physically assault me.
Sighing, I quickly log onto my emails before drafting an email to HR, explaining what had happened and what had caused the sudden backlash from her to begin, and just as I press send, my phone vibrates, and I sigh, knowing it’ll be Crash.
Now the question is, did she tell the truth or lie through her fucking teeth?
“Yeah,” I answer without looking at the ID as I log off my emails and stand up.
“Hey brother,” Crash replies, and I sigh.
“Let me guess, Belle called you in tears?” I confirm, just as the woman herself walks out of the staff room, wiping her eyes.
“She said you got her suspended and had it in for her all day for missing your wedding,” he states, and I scoff.
Her eyes lock with mine before they go to my phone, and she tenses, and I shake my head and say, “You know, Belle, lying to the man who you want to claim you is not the way to fucking do things. I’m not only his friend and I’ve known him a hell of a lot longer than you.”
“I-I didn’t lie,” she stutters, and I raise a brow.
“Oh, so you told my brother, a man I have grown up with from birth and fucking knows me, that you’ve said nasty shit about me all day, shoving me here and there like a child?” I confirm, and her eyes widen as I ask, “And you told him about the needle you fucking stabbed in my hand ten minutes ago in front of a patient?”
“She did what?!”Crash shouts, and I shake my head at the woman.
“You’re no longer allowed to be around Willow,” I state, and her eyes widen as she drops her bag but just catches it with her fingers.
“You can’t do that! I’ve been there for her since you forced my friend into marriage!” she snaps, and I chuckle darkly.
“She’s my kid, and I don’t feel like she’s safe in your care any longer. You’ve lost my trust by being deceitful and quite frankly dangerous,” I state before I turn and walk away from her outraged face.
Even now, she’s not seeing the error of her fucking ways.
“Brother?” I sigh, and he is quiet for a minute before he confirms, “She blames you for missing something that I tried to call her about several times, only to be met with voicemail?”
“Apparently so. All day, brother, I have ignored her shit, which hasn’t been easy considering my stitches keep fucking pulling. When I held my hand out for the needle only to turn around after feeling it go inside my hand to see hers fisted around the fucking thing,” I sigh, “She planned on doing it.”
“I don’t know what to do, brother,” he says quietly, “I love her, but as I said to my sister, I’m not in love with her because this jealous streak, the mean streak that comes out pushes me away. She was the same with Kodi, nasty, only this time she’s hurt a fucking patched brother, the VP. She can’t come back to club property for a while now, and I don’t know what to do.”
“You talk to her brother,” I mutter, “Find out where her head is at with all this shit, find out why she’s been so distant she missed her best friend’s wedding.”
“I know, I just –”
His words are cut off as I hear, “Clark!” shouted, and I don’t think about my chest, and I sprint towards Belle’s shout.
Chapter 29
Clark
“My god, Mr. Canders is a grump,” I grumble as I approach the nurse's desk towards my friend who has been off lately, but Belle doesn’t answer and I say, “Belle?”
“I messed up,” she whispers before her teary eyes lock with mine, and I quickly put the clipboard on the nurse's desk.
When Amber paged and asked me to look after the patient, she failed to mention how grumpy he was, which was probably on purpose. She also didn’t tell me he was Belle’s and my husband’s patient, that I read from the form, I just thought they got called away.
I touch her arm, and I say, “Whatever it is, we can figure it out,” but she shakes her head as a few tears fall.
“I accidentally stabbed a needle in Trick's hand, and now I’m suspended,” she chokes, and I frown as I let go of her arm in an instant and take a step back already knowing she’s lying to me.
Don’t tell me how, but somehow I don’t think the word accident should be in her sentence. Her tears are proof of that, that and she won’t look me in the eyes.
She was the same when she was nasty to Kodi and tried claiming she was the problem.
