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But I don’t.
Not at all.
In fact, I feel relieved. I don’t want to see them ever again. I’m glad to be leaving. I’ll miss my quiet, sweet Andrew, and I feel like an asshole for leaving him to the wolves, but I obviously can’t stay there. I’ll always be here for him if ever he should need it. I can’t say the same for the rest of my family.
ChapterSixteen
COLEMAN
Slidingmy hand down the lapel of my suit, I wrinkle my nose.
“What?” Wells asks.
Turning my head, I look over my shoulder at him before I completely face him. He watches me, tilting his head to the side. “I’m good,” I murmur.
He snorts. “You are? You don’t look it.”
I let out a heavy sigh, walk over to the sofa, and sink down. Hendrick moves toward me and wraps his hand around my shoulder, giving me a gentle shake before he reaches into his pocket and takes something out for me.
“Here, relax,” he murmurs.
He hands me a joint. Normally, I would turn it down, but not today. Slipping it from his fingers, I place it against my lips and pull a lighter out of my pocket. Hendrick steps backward, lifting his own joint to his lips. I watch him light it and do the same with mine.
“Seriously?” Wells asks. “You’re holding out on me? That’s bullshit,” he mutters.
Hendrick laughs, then makes his way toward him, and I watch as he reaches into his pocket and hands Wells a joint so he, too, can partake. It doesn’t take long before the room is filled with smoke.
I sink down in the chair and place my feet on the table as I take another hit. Closing my eyes, I lean my head backward and let out a moan. I can’t believe it’s here, and I’m not sure I want it to be here, either. I like that she doesn’t know me, but that will be over the minute that music starts playing.
“What the fuck happens now?” Wells asks.
“Now, we have this wedding.”
Wells hums, then leans forward and places his forearms on his thighs, his joint hanging out of his lips. “The interrogation is tomorrow,” Wells murmurs.
“It is,” I state.
“Are we losing three cousins tomorrow?” Hendrick asks.
I shrug a shoulder, inhaling a deep breath before letting it out slowly. “Maybe,” I admit. “But if they’re causing problems, trying to break up the family, it cannot go on.”
Wells and Hendrick both nod their heads, but I can tell they’re high and don’t really care that much. They will, though. When we have to kill our childhood playmates, when the truth is uncovered, they will fucking care.
Taking another hit, I close my eyes and try not to think about my future wife. About my cousins. There’s way too fucking much to think about right now. I just want to disappear. I’ve never felt this intense pressure before. Add that to the fact that I’m about to become an executive, and it’s too fucking much right now.
“We should have done this for the bachelor party,” I say.
Hendrick snorts. “I don’t know what you guys were doing, but I was high as fuck.”
We all laugh, and when my dad opens the door, we all stop and pretend we aren’t getting high. Not that he can’t smell it, but we’re also not thinking about that shit. Our dad’s brows lift, and I think he’s going to get pissed, but then he closes the door and sits down next to Hendrick.
“Hit me,” he grunts.
All three of us burst into laughter again. Hendrick hands Dad his own brand-new joint and lights it for him. I watch as my dad takes a hit then leans back into the couch, his head hitting the top cushion, his eyes closing, and he lets out a long groan.
“You good?” I ask.
He turns his head slightly, his eyes opening before finding mine, and he snorts. “Those people are a nightmare.”
