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I shake my head.
“I can take you to the police station. We can go to Stoneview so we won’t have to deal with any of his colleagues.”
Again, I shake my head, but no words come out.
“Um,” she hesitates. “I’m so sorry about what happened. I mean—his hand…it looked bad. He won’t get away with it.”
I don’t respond, my head falling to the side and hitting the window. I think I’m in shock.
I can’t…
Exactly three years ago, day for day, Joel Pearson was doing the exact same thing to me as we celebrated his son’s birthday.
Oh, the fucking irony.
“Do you want to go home?” Alex asks. “Give me your address and I’ll drive you there.”
But I shake my head.
“Is there anything you need?”
She doesn’t get a word out of me the whole drive. I’m too numb, too shocked to believe anything that happened tonight.
When she parks in front of her own house with the pink door and helps me out of the car, I let her.
When she puts me to bed in a guest room, I let her. When she sits down on the floor next to me and holds my hand...
I let her.
38
JADE
I Need You - Chri$tian Gate$
Could the walls in this house be any thinner?
Alex arguing with her boyfriend is what wakes me up. I jump out of bed, on edge. I’m still clothed, bar my shoes, but I want to burn what I’m wearing. It’s tight, sweaty. I feel disgusting.
My entire body feels like there’s a layer of dirt covering it. My mouth is dry, my tongue sticky, and there’s something inside me that burns. It prickles under my skin, making me want to dig my nails and draw blood.
I try to take a deep breath, but there’s nothing to do about the tightness in my chest.
And for having been through this before, I know one thing for sure: it’ll never go away.
So I make the same decision I did back then. I crush the despair in my mind, narrowing it to one feeling that will make me feel strong rather than used and dirty.
Anger.
I press my ear against the door, almost jumping back when I hear Alex shouting. Shit, I thought that girl didn’t even know how to.
“No. I swear to God, Xi…”
“Don’t even finish that sentence.” His voice is stern, leaving no room for discussion. And yet she continues.
“Why would you do this? I didn’t tell you so you’d call two guys she most certainly does not want to see right now.”
“Alexandra, look at me. I amnotkeeping a Kings’ girl in this house.”
