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“Okay. I see you aren’t going to let this go. I’ll make some calls and find out what’s going on. Where’s Juno, by the way? His father says he hasn’t seen him in nearly a month.”
“How should I know?”
“You should know, Ares. He’s like your brother,” he tells me as he pulls his phone out and makes a call. I listen to him talk, picking up bits and pieces but not the full conversation. Maybe because I’m too pissed, I’m too angry, and my mind isn’t letting me focus on anything but her.
When he’s finished, he shoves the phone back into his pocket and looks at me.
“Where did you meet this girl, Sage?”
“What fucking difference does that make?”
“It makes a difference, Ares,” he retorts, watching me like a hawk.
“Where the fuck is she?” I ask through gritted teeth as I pull the gun from my jeans and point it at him. He chuckles and shakes his head.
“Pull the trigger, and you never see her again, Ares. It’s that simple.”
“You know where she is?”
“I do now. And if you pull that trigger, you’ll never find her,” he tells me. Fury courses through me. I lower the gun and shove it back into my jeans before I move. I ball my hand into a fist and swing before he has the chance to move. His head snaps back from the blow before he rights himself.
“You’ve always had anger issues, Ares.”
“I wonder why that is?”
“Because I made you that way. I made you into who you are today.”
“A fucking monster.”
“No. A leader. A fearless leader at that.”
“If anyone lays one fucking hand on her, I will kill everyone in Bellmont,” I warn him.
“As you did, Juno?” How does he know that? He couldn’t know that. I look him in his eyes and see he’s just pulling at straws here. But that’s okay. The truth will set you free, is what they say.
“Unlike how I killed Juno, I will draw your death out. I will make it as painful as my childhood. I will make you scream louder than the little boy I once was.”
25
Ipace the house, not knowing what to do with myself. She isn’t here, and that’s eating me alive. I need her here. I need her close to me, but she isn’t, and that bastard knows who has her. She has to be here, in Bellmont. There’s no way they took her out of here. I could go door to door. I could kick in every fucking door to find her, but I’d be shot before I had the chance.
I stop pacing and sit on the edge of the couch with my head in my hands. This is twice now. Twice, I told her she was safe when she wasn’t. The words claw at my insides. There’s a beast in me, rattling his cage. I’m going to lose it; I know I am, and then what? No. I have to try and calm myself down. I can’t go around just killing everyone, even though the thought is there. My father would have her killed first if he hadn’t already. I pull my hands away from my face and look at the scab on my palm. She’s it. She’s my forever, and I’m going to do anything I have to to get her back.
Shoving off the couch, I rush out the front door and out to my car. I’m in it and down the road and out of the gate as quickly as possible. I drive until I get to Ranger’s office and rush inside. Karen looks up from the desk, and her eyes widen.
“What are you doing here?”
“They took her. They took my girl.”
“Who?”
“I don’t know. Someone in Bellmont.”
“Oh my God, Ares. You have to find her. If you care about her at all, you have to find her.”
“I know that! I just don’t know how!” I snap loudly this time. It only takes seconds before the door opens, and Ranger steps out to see what’s going on. He looks between Karen and me before looking back at me.
“What’s going on?” he asks. I tell him. I tell him how I stole Sage and kidnapped her. I tell him how she’s mine now. I tell him how someone has taken her when he furrows his brows.
