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Xi turns around and grabs his phone. It won’t take long for Lik to show up and he’ll know what this is. I’m fucked. I’m so fucked I’m starting to go back to hating Caden. He did this on purpose so that I would end up in this exact situation.
Emma keeps asking questions, shouting at me, unable to control her anger. I know it comes from a caring feeling. I know she’s trying to protect me. I’ve made up my mind, though. With my arms crossed and my chin up, I stay quiet, my jaw aching from the way I firmly hold it shut.
But when Lik enters the kitchen with a girl I know too well, and he asks what’s going, I lose my patience. She’s tall, pretty much Lik’s height, and he’s just below six-foot. My eyes narrow on the girl the entire fucking planet falls in love with every time she crosses their path. Rose White disappeared for almost two years, but she hasn’t lost that beauty everyone falls at her feet for. And she hasn’t lost the danger in her eyes that tells everyone to not fuck with her.
But I don’t give a shit. I don’t like her, and she is definitely not welcome in this house.
“What the fuck...” I start.
“....is that?!” Lik cuts me off.
“Fuck’s sake,” I whisper to myself when I understand I’m not getting out of this mess anytime soon.
“Are you fucking kidding me, Billie!” Lik shouts at me. He’s clearly also had a long night, and I can understand why if he spent it with the stubborn girl he brought here.
“Do you know who did this?” Emma asks him. I can hear how worried she is, and it distorts my mind with guilt. She’s so focused on my problem, she’s not even registering the fact that the girl she once fucked walked into the room.
“She won’t talk,” Xi tells his brother, making sure we don’t lose the topic of the conversation.
“It’s none of your fucking business!” I fight back.
For once, the attention is on someone other than Rose, and it makes me feel fucking uncomfortable. I need her to take it back.
I barge against Emma and walk toward Lik. “Bringingherhere? Do you want me to commit a homicide tonight?” I ground out. I need everyone to focus on this problem. Not mine. It’s embarrassing to be scolded like a five-year-old in front of her.
“Yeah. I know.” Lik can see right through my attempt to change the topic, and doesn’t bite.
“We know it’s a guy from the Kings crew, Bil’s,” Emma says gently. She’s attempting a new approach. “Just tell us which one. He’ll be dead before you know it.”
Lik is on me the next second, grabbing me the same way Xi did earlier. He pulls me up and looks at the horror on my face closely.
“Are you for real?” he whispers. I’m not sure if the others can hear or not, but the pleading in my eyes is loud enough for him to understand.
Don’t do this. Don’t tell them what it truly is.
My gaze darts to the side when his hardens, and I can feel my cheeks warming from the embarrassment. This is all Caden’s fault.Again.
“Your guilty King is Caden,” Lik says loudly enough for everyone in the room to hear. “And he didn’t hit her. These are love bites. He leaves them on every girl he fucks.”
Fucking traitor.
He finally lets me go, and I cringe at the silence from my sister and Xi trying to swallow the news. I just want the ground to open up and swallow me. Spending eternity in hell would feel less awkward than this situation. But then again, Caden would probably show up at some point, and I want nothing but to see him again.
The only thing that breaks the long silence is Rose’s mocking laugh. It shatters the tension into pieces as everyone turns to her.
“This shit is just too funny,” she mocks. “Who knew you could fall any lower, Billie.”
“Bitch, shut the fuck up!” I shout back. I try to push past Lik. I need an outlet for my fury and I have decided it will be her.
Lik grabs me by the arms and stops me, a stern look on his face. “Worry about yourself.”
“Billie!” Emma barks with a ferocity I’m not used to hearing from her. “What...” She lets out a long huff. “What is wrong with you?”
“I thought Sam scared him?” Lik says, trying to turn this into a helpful conversation.
“Yeah, he tried,” I retort. I’m about to add that this whole fucking plan was a shit idea and that I was right all along. Only Rose is quicker than me.
“And it looks like he was successful,” Rose jumps in with her unwanted sarcasm. Her gaze falls on me, and she smiles brightly. “She loves going for guys she can’t have. It’s a pattern,” she taunts some more.
