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His cold, angry eyes find mine. He might be holding it together, but I see the storm brewing inside. “If you weren’t in the hospital right now, I’d have a go at trying to kill you myself,” he growls.
“Ace,” Remi gasps, placing her hand on his chest. “Take it easy, he’s been through hell.”
“I’ll show him fucking hell,” he mutters to himself before falling back down on the chair and refusing to look at me.
The tension in the room grows thick, to the point that I’m on the verge of kicking them all out, when the door opens once more and Conner walks in.
Our eyes hold, an understanding passing between the two of us.
“Could you… uh… give us a few?” he asks the others. Ace and Remi get up almost instantly, but Hadley is a little less keen to leave my side. “It’s okay, Hadley baby. We just need to talk.”
I keep my eyes on my brother as she finds her sneakers and walks up to him.
Conner’s arms instantly wrap around her before he whispers something in her ear.
Jealousy swirls around in my gut as I watch the two of them together.
She’d be so much better off with Conner. He’d treat her right, make her laugh. Do all the normal things that boyfriends do. He certainly wouldn’t carve his initial into her chest and fuck her so hard she miscarries their child.
The darkness that landed me here in the first place descends over me. I try to fight it, but it’s getting harder and harder to keep at bay.
Conner kisses Hadley’s head, and my fists clench around the sheets beneath me, desperate to rip his hands from her.
It’s my fault things are so familiar between the two of them. Hell, she kissed him first. Maybe she should have been his all along.
Eventually she follows Ace and Remi from the room, leaving the two of us and a fuck load of tension.
“You want her,” I state.
“Cole,” he breathes, shaking his head and coming to sit beside me. “Why didn’t you tell me?”
“T-tell you w-what?” I stutter, really hoping he’s not about to bring up the one thing I really don’t want to talk about.
“That Hadley was pregnant.”
All the air whooshes from my lungs as I stare down at the IV in my hand. “What good would it have done?”
“I don’t know. Just… got it off your chest. I know you’re hurting, Cole. But what happened, it’s really not your fault. Hadley doesn’t blame you, so you need to find a way to—”
“Did she tell you what I did to her?”
“She didn’t tell me, but…” He hesitates, and it makes me look over at him.
He’s pale, really fucking pale, and it makes me wonder what the hell he’s about to admit.
“I saw… fuck,” he barks, standing and pacing the small room. “We both slept in here last night… on there.” He nods to the cot that’s been pushed against the wall. “That wound on her chest… tell me you didn’t…”
“You saw her naked while I was lying here, half dead?” I fume.
“What? No, of course not. She was wearing a tank, and when she turned over… that’s not the point. It was a C, wasn’t it? And you put it there.”
If I could disappear into the mattress then I would, but while I’m attached to machines, I can’t exactly hide from this.
“Yes, okay.” My jaw clenches, “I did. Things got… out of hand. I told you that on the phone.”
“I thought you had an argument, Cole. Not that you carved her up like a fucking butcher.”
“I… shit. I lost control. I found out she’d been texting her ex and things just…”
