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So that’s exactly what I do.
“Jade!”
His voice breaks, as does my heart, but it doesn’t slow me down.
Broken.
We’re both too broken to be together.
To even be around one another.
Maybe in another lifetime.
But not now.
My eyes are blurry as I get out in the hallway. I bite the inside of my cheek to stop it from wobbling as I reach for the door handle.
“Jade, what are you…” the words die on Nixon’s lips as he sees me standing in the doorway, tears falling down my cheeks. “What happened?”
“It’s over. I’m going home.”
His jaw clenches. “I’m coming with you.”
I shake my head. “Stay. He’ll need somebody, and I… I can’t be that somebody, Nixon. Not any longer.”
My brother grits his teeth. “He made you cry.”
“I made myself cry,” I whisper. “Stay. Please.”
There is a beat of silence, and for a moment, I think he’ll refuse me.
“Fine,” Nixon agrees reluctantly. “I’ll come by before I go home, okay?”
Wiping away the tears, I just nod.
Nixon comes to me, cupping my cheeks and swiping away the wetness. “It’s going to be okay, Smalls.”
I’m not so sure about that.
CHAPTERFORTY-ONE
PRESCOTT
“What have you done to Jade?” Nixon asks as he barges into the living room dressed in a pair of my sweats and a tee.
I chug down the Jack, but the asshole whips the bottle away, spilling some of the amber liquid onto me in the process. “Why don’t you figure it out yourself?”
“You’ve had enough of that, don’t you think?”
Don’t I think?
“I’m still coherent, so I’d think not.” I try to reach for the bottle, but he pulls it out of my reach.
“Gimmie that.”
“No, and if you don’t stop with this nonsense, I’m going to spill it all down the drain. Hell, I might do that anyway. What. The. Hell. Happened?”
I glare at him for a moment, but the asshole is unwavering.
