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“How long?” he asks in an even tone with his gaze on me.
I don’t pretend to not know what he is asking. I hold his gaze as I answer. “Pretty much the whole of senior year,” I answer. his chin drops to his chest and I feel like a real dick for not coming clean.
“Who else knew?” he asks in a dejected tone.
“No one, Beck only figured it out when Leah moved in and Saint and Crue only know because they overheard us fighting. They never betrayed you, the three of them warned me to stay away and I… didn’t.” Corvin slowly lifts his gaze to me and I hate that I can see he doesn’t trust me.
“She’s the reason you pulled away from me and closed me out, isn’t she?”
“Yes,” I answer honestly. I ignore Leah’s sharp intake of breath.
He nods like he can finally understand why I put so much distance between us. “When this is all over, you will stay away from my sister.”
“Corvin–” He ignores Leah and continues on.
“You’ll pack your shit and move to Chicago and run the daily operations of BCD’S from there, you won’t call or ever come back.” His words feel like he dropped a boulder directly on top of my chest, the air sucked from my lungs. I knew when the truth did come out that he would be pissed but I didn’t expect him to banish me from his life entirely. My worst fear is coming to life, I’m going to be alone again but this time, I won’t have either Williams’ sibling by my side.
CHAPTER5
Leah
Isit on the couch next to Cody, with Saint on my other side. No one has said two words since Corvin told Darius he had to leave. The guys tried to change his mind but Corvin wouldn’t budge and what could they really say when Darius agreed to my brother’s terms. On top of everything that I am already feeling, I can now add feeling like a homewrecker to the list. I never meant to come between my brother and Darius. I knew he would be angry but I never thought he would throw away years of friendship with D because of me!
“Take these, it will help with the pain.” I flick my gaze up to see Crue standing there with a glass of water and two pills in his hand. I eye them skeptically for a moment. “It’s just pain relief for your cheek.” I take them and the water from his hands, mumbling my thanks before handing the empty glass back to him and flopping back against the couch. Cody rests her head on my shoulder, I lean my head against hers, sighing. Beck and Corvin disappeared to organize some press release thing that I have no idea what for. Darius has been locked in his room all morning while the rest of us hung out downstairs.
“Holy shit!” I snap my gaze across to the other side of the room where Katie sits on the window love seat with her phone in her hand. I frown, how the hell does she get service here? Katie flicks her gaze to Saint and Crue who are both already staring at her with curious looks on their faces. “Gary just released a statement saying that Darius paid him to sleep with Leah and he was the one who drugged her!” Crue and Saint are across the room, peering over Katie’s shoulder reading whatever it is she is showing them.
“Fuck!” Saint curses. “Beckett, Corvin, Darius get the fuck in here now!” he shouts. It takes a second before I hear feet pounding the stairs and then another two sets coming from the theater room end of the cabin.
“What?” Corvin snaps. Saint turns to face the three newcomers with a grave look on his face. I peer over the back of the couch to see Corvin and Darius have kept a couple feet of space between them, not wanting to be near each other. It kills me that I can’t go to him and wrap my arms around him, promising that he isn’t alone. That I’m right here by his side, but there is so much water under the bridge that I can’t get past my own hurt feelings.
“There’s a warrant out for Darius’s arrest for breaking Gary’s arm. The Hayes are pressing charges against him and you’re wanted for questioning as well.” My stomach sinks.
“Fuck, we need to call Troy,” Beck grits out.
“Wait, how the fuck do you know that?” Darius asks cautiously. Saint and Crue both step aside to reveal a smug looking Katie who slowly climbs to her feet, takes a deep breath and squares her shoulders as she stands between the guys.
“I found it,” she says confidently and a little bit smug.
“How? There is no cell service out here and Corvin had a blocker put in place to stop anyone from tracking us while we are here.” Katie doesn’t cower under the accusation of Darius’s words like I assumed she would. Cody and I both shift so we are looking at them all over the back of the couch.
“I feel like this is the best time to tell you all something you don’t know about me.” The five guys tense. “I am a dancer and I love what I do, but my true passion is in computer science. I’m really good at it, which is why I was able to nullify the blocker you have. I was also able to reroute your Wi-Fi that you have disabled and have it re connected so I could get online.” Saint and Crue stare at Katie with their mouths opened in shock. Beck, Corv and Darius look stunned. Katie drops her gaze and scuffs her foot along the wooden floorboards.
“You’re the one who hacked into Beckett’s computer, aren’t you?” Katie looks up at Saint nibbling her bottom lip, she nods. I stare at her in shock. I look to Cody who seems just as shocked as the rest of us that our friend slash roommate was able to keep something like this a secret from us!
“Look,” she says as she runs her gaze over each of us. “I know your lawyer is good and all but he sucks at computers and is slow as shit. I had the video scrubbed from the web two minutes after I got in Corvin’s car. If anyone sends the link to try to keep it circulating their phone is going to download a virus and wipe their entire phone including the cloud.”
“Why the secrecy?” Darius asks as he steps forward eyeing my friend warily.
Katie snorts. “Dude, guys don’t like it when a chick is smarter than them or able to hold her own. Imagine me being able to tell them on a date that I know what their SAT scores were?” Darius doesn’t look convinced. Corvin steps up beside him and I’ll admit I’m more shocked that he didn’t keep an ocean of space between them. They may be mad at each other but when shit hits the fan, they will always band together. I see that now.
“What did you find on Beck’s laptop?” Corvin asks her, his tone is filled with warning. Katie gnaws on her bottom lip nervously. Crue turns to her, reaches out and uses his thumb to pry it free. Her eyes shoot wide as she stares up at him, her cheeks tinge red.
“You gonna answer my friend, doll?” he says in the sexiest voice that has me waiting with bated breath to see what happens next between them.
“Uh… I… um.” Katie shakes her head causing Crue to drop his hand back to his side. “I found contracts and files on there about the Hayes.” All five guys turn ridged.
“What else?” Saint asks as he steps into her back, plastering himself flush against her, drawing a gasp from my poor friend who is now sandwiched between him and Crue.
