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“Titch,” York laments, his arms easing from around my waist. I push his arms away, stumbling out of his hold.
“No. Enough,” I retort, backing away from him.
Zayn pushes Xeno off him and scrambles to his feet towards me. His shirt is ripped and blood runs over his teeth and chin from the split to his lip. “Pen, come here,” he begins, but I stumble backwards, holding my hands up.
“No. Don’t!” I swipe at my tears, trying to get my head together. “I can’t see you do this to each other. I can’t. I’m sorry. Fuck, I’m so sorry for hurting you all. I never meant for any of this. I never meant to break you like this.”
Behind Zayn, Xeno swipes at the blood trickling down his cheek. His shirt is torn, his hair a wild mess but it’s the emotion in his eyes and the words he speaks that cut me the deepest. “But you did break us,” he accuses softly. “You broke me.”
This time there’s no malice there, just the truth. Just the cold, hard, heart-breaking truth and just like in the cage at Grim’s, I’m forced to my knees with the weight of everything wrong between us and all that I want to fix.
“Kid…” Dax steps forward and I drag my gaze away from Xeno to him. His eyes soften as he crouches before me and swipes at my tears gently. “Get up, baby.”
“I need to tell you. I need to tell you why—”
“Not here. Not like this, Kid,” he says, cutting me off. “Get up. This isn’t you. This isn’t our girl. Stand up!” he demands, and I see the fierceness in his gaze, the love.
I see it. I feel it.
So I climb to my feet. I grit my jaw and force strength back into my heart.
“That’s my girl,” Dax says, wrapping his arm around my shoulders as he hauls me to his side before he glares at his bestfriends. “I should’ve trusted what’s left of my goddamn fucking heart, but instead I listened to you, Xeno. Not anymore. You three need to sort your goddamn shit out, and you, motherfucker,” he says, pointing at Xeno, “Need to take a long hard look at yourself. I’m done with this. Whatever happened, Kid doesn’t deserve to be on her knees for us, for any-fucking-one. I’m taking her home. Right the fuck now. Don’t come back until you’ve dealt with your shit!”
And just like when we were kids, Dax swoops in, protecting me once again.
