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“Hold on a second, Ace wants to talk to you.”
“Y-yeah, okay.”
There are some muffled voices, and then Ace’s gruff voice fills the line. “Hadley?”
“Yeah, I’m here.”
“Tell me exactly what happened.”
“We, uh, we went to the beach and... hung out.”
“The beach?” Disbelief coats his words. “Never mind. Did he seem okay?”
“He was fine...” I hesitate, and it’s enough for Ace to say, “Hadley, what aren’t you telling me?”
“N-nothing.”
“Listen, I know my brother. And I know he’s involved in some bad shit. But I can’t help him unless I know what and who he’s tangled up with. If he told you anything... I wouldn’t ask if I wasn’t really fucking worried.”
Crap.
If I don’t tell him and something happens to Cole, I’ll never forgive myself. But if I tell Ace and Cole is okay, he’ll never forgive me.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
“Hadley, please...”
I make a snap decision. “It’s Donny.”
“I knew it, I fucking knew it,” he breathes. “Thank you.”
“You’ll make sure he’s okay?”
“I’m leaving right now.”
Relief floods me. I know Cole will be pissed, but I won’t stand by and watch him potentially get hurt when I can help. I care about him too damn much for that.
“Hads?”
“Yeah?” I say to Remi.
“Thank you. I know it isn’t easy to betray their trust.”
“He’ll hate me for this.” A shudder rolls up my spine.
“He’ll come around. Besides, better to hate you than end up hurt... or worse.”
“How do you do it?” I ask her.
“Do what?”
“Love a Jagger?”
“Honestly, it’s not something you choose. It chooses you. Try and get some sleep, we have school tomorrow. Ace will bring Cole home safe, I promise.”
“Okay,” I lie, because I know sleep won’t come easy tonight. Even if Cole is okay, I just betrayed him.
And I know him well enough to know he’ll make me pay for it.
