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“How can you do this to Rachel,” Jake scolds her.
“I’m sorry, do you see anyone complaining here but yourself?” she fights back. The door to the bedroom opens, and Jamie comes out.
She clearly attempted to brush her messy hair with her fingers, but it didn’t help much. Her cheeks are flushed, and her eyes are glassy. She looks utterly lost in her own apartment. She’s rubbing her wrist against the palm of her hand, and I notice the reddened skin. Someone is subdropping hard.
“Angel,” Jake sighs softly. “I told you to stay in bed. Did you drink all your water?”
“I heard shouting,” she tells him as he wraps her in his arms from behind.
“We aren’t shouting, simply debating. That tends to happen when my stupid twin opens her mouth. You know how it is.”
Jamie chuckles as her eyes go to Rose.
“Your dog is boring,” my girl simply says.
“She’s shy,” Jamie defends. “Maganda, come.” She taps her small thigh and the dog hurries to her, hiding between her legs.
“I could swear these dogs are meant to defend you? Not be defended by a small girl,” Lik chuckles.
Jamie rolls her eyes at him but doesn’t say anything. No, instead, her face turns bright red, which makes Lik laugh. “You never got over that night. Did you, Jamie?”
“Oh my god,” Rachel whispers in my ear. “He wasn’t lying about it, was he?”
I shake my head. “Nope.”
“Okay, enough,” Jake jumps in. “I’m tired, and I’ve got classes this afternoon. What the fuck do you want?”
“I told you,” Rose jumps back in. “I need you to turn on a tracker remotely.”
“That’s easy enough for you,” Jamie says casually.
“Perfect!” Rachel exclaims. “You’re a lifesaver, Jake.”
“I’m not doing anything until you tell me why I’m doing it.”
“To find the Wolves’ compound,” Rose shrugs.
Jake freezes. His jaw tightens, and so does his grip on Jamie. It takes him a few seconds to release his girlfriend and walk toward his sister.
“Are you fucking kidding me?” And there it is. The Whites’ lovely temper. This conversation is going to go nowhere. I’ve known these two long enough to know it will lead to a stupid sibling fight.
“You show up here with a guy you know I can’t fucking stand just to ask me to help you find the people who took you away? Are you out of your mind, Ozy?!”
“To kill him!” Rose explains as if that helps in the slightest. She gets up and closes the gap that separates her and Jake. “You told me to come to you if I needed anything. You told me you’d be there for me. This is what I need.”
“What you need is to see a therapist, not attempt revenge.”
“Rich coming from you,” she mocks him.
“You deal with your trauma however you fucking want, okay? We all do. Wanna fall in love with three people and be in a four-way relationship, be my fucking guest. But if you think I will ever help you return to Volkov, you must have forgotten who I am. I know you by heart, Ozy. You can fool them, but you won’t fool me.”
There’s a long silence. He managed to shut her up, and none of us truly understands why.
“You’re all so in love with her you don’t even see what she’s doing,” he says to the three of us. The rest of his thoughts are for me only. “Don’t you see how deep into Stockholm syndrome she is?” My heart squeezes, promising me Jake is lying to me. “She’s not helping you find him to kill him, Sam. She’s just trying to go back to him.”
I shake my head. She wouldn’t, right? She told me she didn’t need him anymore, that we were enough for her. Even ifIwasn’t, with Lik and Rachel, we’re enough.
Nothing compares to your love, she said.
