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I was fucking gutted for her.
“I didn’t do this,” she insisted, eyes round and watery. “I didn’t.”
“I believe you,” I said, nodding as her lower lip trembled.
It was only then that my brother’s gaze finally slid in my direction. If his eyes were cold before, they were fucking frigid then.
“Of courseyoudo,” he said, disdain dripping from his tongue.
I ignored him, and the way his blind hatred still cut, even after all these years, and focused on Everleigh instead.
“Don’t say a fucking word except asking for a lawyer,” I told her, tone deadly serious because I knew how easily cops could talk in circles until you were so turned around that you finally just admitted to shit. Even if you didn’t do it.
She nodded to me before she was pulled outside.
I was watching her be pushed into the backseat of a cruiser when my brother spoke.
“Poor girl, but I guess if you wallow around in the mud with pigs for long enough, you become one too,” he said, making my gaze cut to his.
This time, it was my tongue dripping venom.
“Funny. I only see onepighere,” I said, watching as his gaze flicked fire before he banked it down.
But it was too late.
I knew I got to him.
He knew I knew.
“Your little girlfriend is going away for a long time,” he said before turning and walking out of the gym.
Not if I had anything to say about it.
CHAPTER TWO
Everleigh
It all happened in a blur as I found myself sort of outside of my body, watching as I was searched, fingerprinted, had my mugshot taken, and was placed into a cell.
What the hell was happening?
How was I sitting in a jail cell right now?
I didn’t sell drugs.
I didn’t evendodrugs.
I mean I was so clueless about drugs that I had someone laugh in my face when discussing a song calledWhite Girland I had no idea that it was a slang for cocaine.
For God’s sake, I thought having a glass of wine without company to share it with was kind of naughty.
I wasn’t trafficking drugs!
Even just thinking about it again had my chest rising and falling at an alarming rate, making my head fuzzy.
“Hey, you’re gonna be okay,” another female voice said, making me turn my head to notice that I wasn’t in the cell alone like I first thought. Though, to be fair, I was in such a daze when I’d been put inside that I probably wouldn’t have noticed if a dozen other women were in there with me.
“I really don’t think so,” I said, placing a hand on my chest where it felt like my heart was trying to make a break for it.
