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Her face crumpled. “Your father is the head of this household.”
We said nothing for so long all I could hear was screaming in my head.
“Did you agree with him?”
She nodded. “You can’t stay here if you won’t try to be Christlike.”
I snorted and backed off a few steps while my heart broke all over again. “I hoped you didn’t know what he’d done, but you’re just as bad as he is.”
“Where is your father?” she asked, and I didn’t like the fear that clouded her expression.
I shrugged. “Maybe he’s in Mexico like you said. Maybe he’s checking on me and my missionary work. You love fairytales, so you might as well keep living in one.” Shaking my head, I turned around to go back to Ethan and the real world. Maybe it wasn’t as shiny as my parents’ house, but it was safer. I should’ve never come over here to begin with.
“Should I sell the house?” she asked quietly. “I don’t know if I can do anything. Your father had all our money tied up in his name. He was the head of this house, Jonas.”
I closed my eyes and stopped walking. “Why would you do that if he’s on his way back from Mexico?” I glanced at her over my shoulder.
She began to cry as I stormed out of the house, and I didn’t look back as I made my way to the river. I felt bad as Ethan frantically ran toward me, hair still dripping wet. He met me before I reached the rocks, and I let him wrap me up in a hug. He trembled against me and pressed a hard kiss to my temple.
“Why did you come over here?” he asked, and he stepped back, staring as if he’d seen a ghost.
“I had to ask if she knew,” I whispered.
“You don’t want to come back here. You don’t want to give the cops a reason to look at you funny,” he said in a rush, and his strong hands were too tight on my arms as he turned me around, and we both stopped because there was a cop car parked outside of his trailer.
My heart jolted.
He swore.
We stayed low and snuck across the river, then hunkered down against the stone fence. We watched the cops for a while, and eventually the cop car went away again.
“We’re going to get fucking kicked out because of them,” he snapped, shaking his head.
“My mother says my father is in Mexico.”
He whipped around to stare at me.
“As long as she keeps saying that, will they keep looking for him?” I asked.
He let out a long sigh. “Well, I hope not.” He grabbed my hand and rubbed it. “You’re so cold.” He kissed my knuckles and blew his warm breath across my palm. “You’re still up for sitting at the clubhouse, right?”
I shrugged because I wasn’t sure I was good to do anything, but I knew I didn’t like the panic in Ethan’s eyes, and I never wanted to put it there again. “Anything you want.” I leaned over and kissed him on the lips. “I love you.”
His cheeks went pink and he grinned. Together we hopped over the fence.
17
ETHAN
By the timewe got back to the trailer after the cops had left, Murph was waiting for us, mouth twisted in a sneer. He wiped his nose with the back of his wrist and sniffed, and he looked tweaked out on something, but that wasn’t unusual for him.
I shook my head. I hadn’t seen him since we’d gotten back, and I had a few choice words for him. “What the fuck are you doing, Murph?”
He grinned at me, his teeth appearing more yellow than I’d remembered, which made me wonder just how many drugs he was doing and what kind. I felt sorry for his twin, who had tried so hard to keep his brother under control, but it seemed like Law was failing.
“You’re a freak, you know that?” he grunted out, smirking over my shoulder toward Jonas. “I knowexactlywhat you are, and I’m gonna tell everyone. Between you being a cock sucker and bringing in the cops, Owen will kick you out.”
I stared at him. “Who’ll believe you? You’re high twenty-four hours a day.” I stepped in closer to him, and he tried to stumble backward, but I grabbed his threadbare shirt in my fist, holding him tightly. “And you wrecked my trailer and stole from me and Jonas.”
