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She tilts her head and says, "It's late, Leah, and I have work tomorrow. I'm going home."
Shit, I'm losing; I should have just told her the fucking truth.
Defeated, I drop my arms to my sides and say, "You can't."
Anger and realization enter her eyes as I bite my bottom lip when Ink walks in with Gunner right behind him.
"And why's that?" She sounds angry, but Ink isn't deterred as he walks up behind her, rasping in her ear.
"Because we need to talk, Pixie."
My eyes started to tear up when she looked at me with betrayal. Though I know a small bit of her knows she needs this, I'd become her punching bag and lose my best friend.
I turn my head when Gunner storms behind the bar, getting in my face and asking, "What's this about you having a fucking date?"
I roll my eyes and scoff.
He'll fuck Cara whenever he wants, yet a guy asks to sit at the same table as me in a café a town over that Cammy had set up behind my bag and was a sleazeball, and suddenly it's a 'date' I shake my head. He's a jackass, and he can fucking suffer; he doesn't need to know it wasn't a date, and he can't keep doingthis. I know he has feelings for me, yet whatever 'he' said has ensured we'll never be together, and his actions just cemented it.
"It was a bust and none of your fucking business. Why don't you go pay attention to your girlfriend?"
He furrows his brows, "I don't have a girlfriend."Just as he's said the words, Cara slinks up to him, and pain shoots through me when his arm wraps around her and I turn away from him, making him sigh because yet again he's a clueless jackass. I look at Soph apologetically, but she just shakes her head at me, and my tears build again.
Why in the hell am I trying to help these men when they treat me like crap most days?
If the crunch came down to it, Cara would be chosen over me in a heartbeat, even by the ones who do treat me nicely.
I look down as Ink speaks.
"I know you are pissed, Pixie; I understand and I deserve it, but baby, please. I fucked up; I didn't let you explain shit; I let my jealousies of another man getting to touch you take over."
I look up just in time to see her point at Ink: "I'm not your Pixie; I'm not your baby; I'm not your anything." Then she looked at me with anger and betrayal before snapping, "Don't bother talking to me for a while," making my eyes widen before I shook my head at her, coming up with anything for her to see reason before she ruins our friendship. "Soph, you are struggling without him. Did he screw up, yes he did but you can see he loves you. Just give him a chance to explain.”
She looks at me with disbelief and betrayal, making me sigh while Ink goes back behind her, but she doesn't break eye contact with me while he rasps, "I had just found out that my mother, my blood, had my big brother molested from the age of 10 until he left for the Navy. I wasn't in my right frame of mind.Phoebe showed me the text on your phone, and I flipped. I didn't think; I just acted. Please, Pixie, please understand where I was coming from."
My heart breaks for Dagger; the same heartbreak flashes through Sophie's eyes before they turn to stone, making me take a step toward her with panic, knowing she's shutting down, but before I can grab her, she spins around and rams a knee between Inks's legs, hard, causing him to gasp, then grunt, leaning forward.
I vaguely hear Gunner mutter, "Fucking hell," as I choke out a chuckle because, yeah, that was deserved.
She ignores us before getting in Ink's face, saying as coldly as she can, making me shiver, "How's that me knowing where you were coming from? Why don't you go back to your sweet butts, Ink, because you and I, we were done the day you thought treating me as a bed buddy was better than treating me like your heart? I was just stupid enough to stay until you decided to humiliate me and call me a whore with one of your brothers, who I thought was my friend. Stay away from me!"
Shit, my eyes widen as she pushes past him, “SOPHIE” I shout, but she ignores me, running out of the door before Ink quickly gets his bearings, running after her while I rush out from behind the bar, shoving past Gunner and Cara, who scowl at me.
I go to the one door I always stay away from for my friend.
I ignore the panic rising, ignore the man who tore my innocence from me, and rush through it.
The memories creep up, wanting to take hold, but I push them away as I watch Ink try to convince her to give him another shot before his phone goes off, as well as Gunners, who’s currently standing behind me. He mutters "fuck" before rushing past me, knocking me into the wall, where I hit it hard, making me gasp,but he doesn't stop; he doesn't even flinch; he just runs to his bike before Ink follows.
My tears fall before I look back towards Sophie, who ignores me as she climbs into her jeep, and drives off, and I have never felt more alone than I do right now.
I go back inside the bar before wiping my face and quickly catch up on some orders when my phone buzzes, and I grab it, hoping it's Sophie, but it's not; it's a message from Dagger.
Dagger - Mel was shot; she may not make it. Come to the hospital.
I gasp and go to grab my bag when a hand stops me. I look up into Cammy's brown eyes, looking at me with distaste.
"You're not family; you're nothing but a whore employee wanting a patched brother; stay away from the hospital or you'll regret it."
