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Maybe one day she’d understand.
Every day that passed I grew more worried about Bass. He was a loose cannon, and each day he became angrier and angrier. Was it about that night or was there more to it?
It all came down to an ending; we all had one, whether or not it was the one we chose for ourselves, or it was what destiny had planned for us all along.
I never planned to fall for Nova. I wanted revenge on Santonio for what he’d made us into. We didn’t have choices when we were younger, everything was decided for us. I wasn’t ready to make this decision if it came down to it, I knew for us I had to, but would they accept it?
“Cass?” The soft timber of her voice pulls me from my thoughts. Staring down at the girl with who I’ve found solace, the side of my mouth lifts, making her run her fingertips across my jaw. The truth was out there, we just had to find it. Every person in this town had a reason for Santonio to be gone, nobody was innocent, not in this town. I certainly was far from it. The aftermath of my father was a burden Nova never needed to know, at least not everything. But then that wasn’t the only secret I was holding onto.
Nova lays her head on my shoulder, her fingers dancing across my shirt. Jordy is curled up next to her with his eyes closed. He cracks one open to look at me and frowns, noticing the change in my mood.
“What's wrong?” Jordy asks.
Pulling my phone from my pocket, I hand it to him, letting him read over the messages. He’ll handle the news better than Bass right now.
Jordy’s eyes widen while reading over them. Lifting his head, a mixture of anger and relief washes through him. Handing me back the phone, his gaze drops to Nova asleep on my chest.
“Let’s get her to bed,” he says, standing and lifting Nova in his arms. She murmurs in her sleep as he carries her to my room.
Taking a seat beside her, I brush my fingers across her cheek then move the piece of hair that's fallen across her eyes behind her ear.
“Were you ever going to tell us?” Jordy questions.
I nod. “I was waiting.”
He scoffs. “For what?”
“The right time.”
Shaking his head, Jordy runs his hands through his hair.
“I’m going?” he tells me. I don't argue I let him.
Because regardless of what I feel, he has the right to be angry, I just hope when he walks back through that door he can forgive me. I hope they all can.
Un-fucking-believable.
Cass had the nerve to look fucking pained when I questioned him.Fuck.
Dropping my head, I rest my hands over the wood of my old home, leaning against it to think. I’d come here to think, to try to understand everything. Little fucking good it did.
A bond, that’s how it started, four kids and a reason to live again, we weren’t prepared, we never were. But somehow we survived, we had each other, and now we had Nova.
But would we lose her?
Fucking. Fuck. Picking up a rock, I throw it toward the house. It crashes through a window, the sound giving me some relief.
“Shit,” I mumble to myself.
I hadn't been inside, not since that night. Sliding my hands into the back of my hair, I take a deep breath before I leave it all behind.
The door clicks behind me as I enter the house. Cass lifts his head and a soft frown appears before he dips his head back down.
Bass enters helping himself to a beer from the fridge. He watches me as I make my way toward him, grabbing one for myself.
Opening the cap, I throw the bottle cap into the sink before I take a huge gulp.
Bass watches me, grunting in a way that makes me look at him.
