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He drops me, and I fall limply against Lilian. I tilt my head up, taking her in. She seems dazed, a bruise swelling on her cheek, and I’m wondering what’s he’s done to her that has kept her quiet all this time.
“Let her fucking go! I’m going to kill you. Do you hear me? I’m going to rip your fucking head off,” CJ screams, turning bright red.
“Stay there,” Alex yells, pointing the knife at me. I rear back, my heart stopping from shock.
I tense when he walks towards CJ. I panic, freezing on the spot. “Please don’t hurt him,” I beg. “Alex, if you cared for me as a friend, you wouldn’t hurt him.”
He holds the knife up to CJ’s face, pressing it into his cheek. I gasp in horror when fresh blood starts trickling down his face. “No!”
“Not so fucking cocky now you have a knife pressed against your face, are you?”
CJ smiles, showing a cut on the inside of his lip that hasn’t stopped bleeding. “Like you? Get me out of these ropes and we’ll see how cocky you are.”
I watch in horror as Alex brings the butt of his knife down on CJ’s cheek, splitting it open. “Stop! Stop! Please, don’t,” I scream, wanting to go to CJ, but the look Alex gives me stops me, and I heed the silent warning.
“Now shut the fuck up and listen. Or next time, I’ll hurt her,” he says to CJ, pointing towards me and Lilian.
CJ grits his teeth. “You’re dead, Potter. Fucking dead.”
“Yeah, we’ll see,” Alex mutters before sitting back down in his chair.
“Can you let the girl go? This is Lilian, right? The last girl to go missing? Why don’t you let her go? This is between us,” I ask softly, hoping he will see reason. Maybe she can call for help from the house.
I’m still hoping Jordan has answered my call and is listening in. She will call for help; I know she will. I have to believe that.
“No, now shut up or I’ll stab her,” he snaps, rubbing his temple again.
“Okay,” I whisper. I rub the girl’s leg over the long white nighty she’s wearing, looking up at her. “It will be okay.”
Tears are running down her face as she nods slowly, seeming too petrified to move. I can’t imagine what she is going through.
“Family tree time,” Alex starts, and I turn away from Lilian to him. “My nan, the woman I live with, and her many boyfriends, were responsible. I blame her for everything. She should have protected them better.”
“Is that why she isn’t in a home and living in filth?” I ask.
He laughs. “Payback’s a bitch, that’s what you always say. Do you know she let her boyfriend’s rape her kids?My mum,” he tells me, his voice strangled. “Did you know that when her last husband, my aunt’s dad, didn’t touch them, my dad took over? It was his job, anyway, not the lowly excuses of men she brought round.”
“What the fuck? That doesn’t make any sense,” CJ snaps, but when I glance over at him, I can see the interest, the need to know what happened, and the disgust at what he’s pieced together already.
Alex smiles. “Well, he’s your dad, but he’smyuncleanddad.”
I’m going to be sick. He can’t be serious.
“You’re telling me, your mum and uncle—dad, whatever—had sex?”
“All the time,” Alex says, smiling like it’s the best thing in the world. “My mum didn’t like her mum’s boyfriends, but she loved our dad. She would tell me how much she loved him all the time. My nan’s last husband never understood their relationship, but I don’t think he knew just how close they were. She was ill you know—my mum. She didn’t know any different. She got worse when he got sent to prison for raping a woman. Your mum,” he bites out. “Slut.”
CJ loses it, trying to fight his way out of his chair, screaming and yelling. His face is red, enraged. “You don’t fucking speak about my mum. He deserved to go to jail. I’m glad he rotted there.”
Alex shoots up in his seat, stepping closer. “She needed him, and your slut of a mum tempted him, just like my aunt did. If he had stayed, she wouldn’t have been sent away to the psychiatric unit. She was already pregnant with me when he got sent to prison. It’s why she married my step-dad so quickly; she needed to keep our bloodline going. She didn’t love him, though. But she could have had given me a sister. I could have had Allie. She would have been my sister. I know it. But then dad died in prison ten years later, just when she found out my step-dad was having an affair and got the mistress pregnant. She had been waiting for my dad to come out and give her another baby. One to give to me,” he spits, thumping his chest.
What the fuck? This is beyond wrong.
I can’t look away from him, trying to see what I missed since I met him. There had to be signs he went through this. There had to be, and I missed them.
CJ, still going mad, glares up at him, spitting in his face. “It doesn’t work like that, dickhead. Allie isn’t related to you; she isn’t a part of you. She never will be. And what happened to your mum, your aunt, was fucking sick. Your nan fucked all her kids up in the head. What they were doing to them was wrong, Alex; whatyouare doing is wrong.”
“She would have been mine,” Alex screams. “We could have shared what my mum and dad had. We could have been good together. But you had to get in the way. Just like my aunt, just like my step-father’s mistress. You got in the way.”
