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So fucking glad that she was there for him just as much as we were. That she could give him things that Grey and I never could.
Rook sipped the water, grimacing, probably wishing it was whiskey.
His slitted eyes glanced around the room at the rest of us, and a frown curled the edges of his lips downward. “All right,” he hissed. “Show’s over. What the shit happened?”
“You don’t remember?”
“I remember your mom being a cunt and then… just nothing.”
“That was pretty much it.”
Ava Jade dropped her head, unable to look him in the eyes. Maybe it was good if he didn’t remember everything. If I were being honest, there was a small part of me that was afraid for Rook to wake up. It could’ve gone either way, with him pissed at Ava Jade and out for her mother’s blood, or like this… his usual aloof self, not giving two fucks either way.
His hands shook as he drank more water, and he was pale and sweaty as fuck. He needed a shower and to be watched like a hawk at all times over the next couple weeks. He’d be twitchy.
To my knowledge he’d never touched heroin before, but I could vividly remember him coming down off a cocaine high.
Shit wasn’t fucking pretty.
People died.
We just tried to make sure the right people died. It was all we could do.
If Rook couldn’t have his next drug fix, he needed blood on his hands.
Grey rounded the sofa into the living room, sinking onto the coffee table to wait until Rook looked up at him.
Once he did, Grey studied his stare, nodding silently to himself as though he got all the answers he needed just from looking into the black depths of his brother’s stare. “All right,” he said.
“Satisfied?” Rook prodded.
“For now,” Grey replied. “But you fucking tell me if I need to be more worried.”
Rook gave a single terse nod.
“Hey,” Grey barked. “I want to hear you say it.”
“All right. Fuck. I’ll tell you.”
“Good.”
Becca came into the kitchen, picking up where Ava Jade left off, making coffees for everyone.
“I’m not a very good cook,” she said as she frothed milk. “But I can do pancakes if you guys want something to eat. Or we can order in.”
Ava Jade shook her head. “Actually, if it’s cool with everyone, we need to head back to the Nest once Rook’s good to move.”
The man himself flinched at her words, and she noticed, wincing with second-hand shame.
“What for?” Grey asked and my jaw clenched.
“Your idiot brother hasn’t slept in days. Probably longer. I’m going to put him down for a nap.”
Rook laughed at that, and even Grey smirked. Traitors.
I shook my head at her. “You’re dangerously close to making me change my mind about the whole fucking thing,” I warned.
But she only shook her head. “Nope. You’re going to nap even if I have to knock your ass out to make it happen.”
I bit my cheek to keep from grinning.
“Bet you fifty he doesn’t sleep more than an hour,” Rook said.
“Make it a hundred and I say he doesn’t sleep at all,” Grey countered, his eyes flicking to Ava Jade. “Not even if you ask him nicely, AJ.”
Her cut-glass eyes narrowed on Grey and Rook. “You’re on, motherfuckers.”
