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Food was the last thing on my mind. I gripped the shake and my laptop and charged to the door, turned the handle, and shoved it wide. The place was quiet. It was always quiet. I lifted my gaze to the study on the second floor and climbed the stairs.
The thud of the front door sounded before Nick’s heavy footsteps thudded behind me. “I’ll eat them all if you’re not careful.”
“Go ahead,” I threw over my shoulder as I caught the sound of voices from the study.
I stopped in front of the closed study door, my heart hammering.
“I wouldn’t go in there if I were you.” Nick stopped behind me. “Lawyer talk is boring anyways. Come on, come to my room and we can discuss your first damn day at Dukes.”
I licked my lips, listening to their muffled words drifting through the door. I wanted to cross the hall and open it, wanted to know what was going on. Were they finally getting dad out? Was that why the other lawyers had been there all day?
“Ryth.” Nick urged.
I stepped away and followed him, even as my mind raced. What had happened between mom and Creed had been real, but it didn’t have to be a deal breaker…marriages survived all the time even if one of them had been unfaithful. Mom and dad hadn’t been happy in a long time, but this could be our fresh start, a way to make things better…I’ll be better.
I followed Nick, my mind fixed on the image of us being one big happy family once more, and stepped into his room.
NINE
tobias
Nick:Eating fries. She won’t stop talking about her mom and dad getting back together.
I stared at the text on my cell, texts from my brother in the next room, and clenched my jaw.
Nick: But you should’ve seen her in the car, man. Eyes closed, head back, rubbing her goddamn pussy. I wanted to fucking come all over her goddamn milkshake. I wanted to climb into that car and—
“Sonofabitch,” I growled, then lifted my gaze and cast the cell onto the bed.
The faint sound of their muffled voices drifted through the wall. I clenched my fists as my cell wentbeep.
I wasn’t going to read them…wasn’t going to look. But I couldn’t stop thinking about her, the way that pink fucking mark on her cheek blushed when I'd cornered her in the kitchen. The way her breath had hitched when I'd told her what I’d do to her.
Christ, I wanted to do that to her.
Her mom and the lawyers had been in dad’s office all fucking day. They were there when I came back from the gym, and they’d stayed there ever since.
Beep.
Don’t look…
Don’t fucking look.
Beep.
“Fuck.” I reached over and grabbed it from the bed.
Nick: She just got a message from her mom. Apparently there’s a special dinner tonight. She’s talking about wearing a fucking dress, for Christ's sake.
A special dinner?
Something savage moved through me. My mind raced, searching all the possible threads it could be. Maybe they were moving out? Maybe Nick had been right and this was just a friend helping out a friend…and our life would go back to normal.
Me hating dad.
Nick and Caleb running interference.
That was the only reason they stayed, because they didn’t trust I wouldn’t kill him after what he’d done…they were smart to stay. There was a lot of unspoken truths between us. The kind of shit that sticks…the kind of shit I wanted to ram down his fucking throat.
