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“The only weakness I have isyou,” he hisses. “And she already knows that too.”
I put a hand on the counter, grounding myself so I can think clearly. Rose messed with Lik’s head. He hates her, and yet I saw how he wanted to save her when I had a hand wrapped around her throat.
I put another hand on the counter, facing away from him. “Okay. I lied to you.”
“Yeah, I fucking know that,” he snaps.
“Three years after Rose shot Nate, he found the twins in Stoneview. He sent me after them.”
“I know that part of the story. Get to the part where you spent time with her.”
“I was meant to keep a close eye on both of them. I kept a closer eye on Rose.” I turn around and run my hands through my hair, combing it back. “That’s what I used to do, Lik. I was obsessed. Dangerously. I blackmailed her into spending time with me. Did some petty jobs with her just to be close.”
“What jobs?”
“Pick-ups on the North Shore. Shit I hadn’t done since I was a bloody teenager. That’s not the point.”
“No, the point is you probably slept with the bitch when you promised you never had.”
“My promise stays the same. I couldn’t touch her. Nate would have decimated me. But I was alwaysthere. I wanted to know where she was at all times.”
He pauses, chewing over my words.
“What did you blackmail her with? Is it something we can use now?” His brain works fast, trying to make our plan work despite the anger against me.
I shake my head. “Back then, she thought she had killed Nate. I threatened to tell the cops. She found out soon enough that he was very much alive.”
“So, you never slept with her.” He rolls his plump lips inwardly, then seems to remember a point. “But she’s been here.”
“Rose has always been a party girl. She puts herself in all kinds of states. I used to bring her back here after parties.”
“So…you never did anything with her.”
I take a deep breath. What’s the point in lying now? It happened, and hiding what happened won’t change the fact that I can’t stop thinking about it.
And yet, I can’t admit to him that the day Rose got taken, I cheated on him. I kissed the girl I was in love with because I thought I was saying goodbye forever. I broke her heart and mine in the process. I never thought she’d get kidnapped. I never thought I’d regret my words so much.
Instead of answering and lying to his face. I take the coward’s way out. I deviate.
“Maybe you shouldn’t go to Vue with her tomorrow. She’s getting to you.”
His head snaps toward me. “What?” I don’t say anything, just watch him walk to me. “No. I’m going. This is my part of the plan,mytime with her. You’re not putting yourself in the way.”
My eyebrows rise, but I’m barely surprised. “Your time with her, huh?”
I can’t believe it took her so little time to have him fall for her. A couple of weeks of them sharing classes, an evening together. He gets so close to me, and his lips are almost touching mine when he speaks.
“Don’t,” he bites. “You can’t be trusted around her.Ican.”
I’m about to snap back when I smell his breath.
“You drank?” I ask, this time, truly surprised.
He takes a step back and wipes his mouth with the back of his hand as if it would change anything. He looks away.
“Stop trying to change the topic.”
“Lik, I’m going to ask this one more time. And you better answer me.” I take a step toward him and watch him shrink on the spot. “Did you drink tonight?”
