avoided eye contact with Zero.
Prinie scoffed like she didn’t want any part of this conversation.
“No. You both had plenty of words to say a moment ago, you can’t go silent now, just because it’s me. What the fuck did you do, Wraith?”
I glared at him. Fuck Prinie, always getting preferential treatment. “Me? You have to assume it’s me, right? That your precious little princess isn’t a screw-up!”
“Ha! I’m a screw-up? Me? You’re the one who has a problem with screwing things.”
Zero jerked his head back at her comment.
Shit!
“Prinie, shut it,” I warned because she was going to give us away.
Zero’s cold, hard eyes narrowed in on me. Assessing me, while the wheels in his mind turned.
“Fuck you, Wraith! You have no right to tell me what to do. You lost that privilege when you walked out on me.”
My chest squeezed as I glared at Prinie. She practically told Zero what happened between us.
Fuck!
Zero’s face turned from tanned to bright red in two point five seconds, the vein in his neck ticked while his nostrils flared. His breathing became heavy as his lip curled into a snarl.
Oh, shit!
It was like watching a swirling tornado raging inside of Zero, and he was about to let it loose. His hands raced out latching onto my cut, grabbing handfuls then he shoved me back. My head hit the drywall with a thud causing the outline of stars to form. Zero ground his teeth together, his eyes now a wildfire burning so fiercely there was no way to extinguish the flames.
Knowing Zero had finally put together that I had been with his sister was everything I didn’t want. It was what I had been trying to hide all this time. It was part of the reason Prinie and I could never be something more because I honored my friendship with her brother so much more. I owed Zero so much.
I fucked his sister, and now I had ruined our friendship.
“I’m only going to ask you this once, Wraith. Did. You. Fuck. My. Sister?”
Prinie sniffled as Zero narrowed his eyes on me.
My Adam’s apple bobbed up and down when I swallowed hard, then I cracked my neck to the side and replied, “Yes.” The answer was so simple, yet so complicated at the same time.
Zero let go of my cut with a shove, turned, and ran his fingers through his long hair.
I let out the breath I didn’t know I was holding but stayed where I was.
Zero was taking this way better than I thought he would. But when he turned back to me, it was so fast, I didn’t see it coming. His clenched fist connected with my jaw before I had a second to register. My head snapped to the side so quickly, I lost my balance falling to my knee. Pain seared through my skull as Zero came back for more.
Prinie screamed at him as he landed an uppercut under my chin, knocking me onto my ass. I fell back onto the floor, dazing in and out as he kneeled over me, ready to strike again.
Prinie screamed at him, jumping on his back in an attempt to stop him from doing any more damage, but in his rage, he shoved her and she fell back, hitting her head on a barstool.
Even in my dazed state, anger flared through me that he could possibly hurt her. I found the strength to push him off me, my fist connecting with his eye socket.
A scream came from Cherry Bomb, Zero’s Old Lady, as Zero and I moved together in an old- fashioned wrestling match. We fell to the floor, trying to punch each other, but all we were doing was rolling around like dickheads.
Texas, Chains, and Neon all slid in, pulling us apart, but even still, Zero tried to get one last punch in before Neon pulled him back completely.
We were both uncontrollable.
Everyone stood back watching as we panted furiously for raging breaths.
My head was spinning. My jaw aching.
Zero shrugged out of the grip of Neon, then threw me a glare. “If you hurt her, Wraith, so help me God, I’m going to fucking kill you with my bare hands.”
Prinie grabbed Zero with tears streaming down her face. “Krew, stop! Wraith didn’t hurt me. That’s not why we’re fighting.”
“Then you better tell me something because if he so much as laid a fucking finger on you—”
“Just stop it! Wraith wouldn’t hurt me… not physically anyway.” Her eyes met mine before she grabbed Zero and started leading