Eye for an Eye (Take a Chance #2)- Lisa Helen Gray Page 0,97
heading down the road. I come to a stop before the bridge, pulling onto the grass, the breath getting sucked out of me when the realisation hits me.
I have nowhere to go.
I have lost everything.
Anything I had left to live for is gone.
I rip my seat belt off, the tightness in my chest too much as I gasp for air. Pushing the door open, I fall to my knees on the damp grass. My head hangs down as I struggle to catch my breath.
Tears stream down my face as everything comes tumbling down around me.
I have lost everything, and in this moment, all I can think about is that if I don’t take another breath, there will be no one to mourn me, no one to care.
Rebecca has her own life to live, surrounded by family who love and adore her. I’m only ever a burden to her.
Maybe now, she can be free.
And maybe now, I can be too.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
WYATT
How can someone else’s wrongdoing make me feel like shit. She is the one who lied to me, to us, for months. At any point over the past few months, Evie could have told us who she was, but she chose not to. And the answer to that is easy. She never planned to.
And yet I’m the one feeling conflicted and kicking myself for the way things ended. For her wounded expression as she left.
The fury still pumping through me wants to be set free. I want to pummel my fist into someone, mostly Andrew Black.
When we were together, I had my concerns about Evie only giving me parts of herself. I was stupid not to read into them and my misgivings about it. I gave her all of me, more than I have given anyone outside of my family.
What I once thought was beautiful between us, now only seems dark and ugly.
Her void expression as she looked through me before she left keeps playing on my mind, and it only makes me angrier with myself. I shouldn’t be giving her another thought. Her heartbroken act was just that: an act. But I’m not as heartless as she is. Certain things get to me. I’m human.
“You should have heard her out,” Jaxon barks, coming back from the office with some boxes.
I snatch one out of his hand, unable to look at him. “I didn’t see you coming to her defence.”
“She wasn’t my girlfriend, and if you’ve forgotten, she nearly had my wife and unborn child killed.”
The fight I have been dying for since I found out who Evie is surfaces, and I stand up straight, ready to give in to Jaxon’s goading.
“Fuck!” I groan when I see Mum marching up the pathway, her features tight and unhappy.
“I never raised you to be a stupid boy,” she yells, narrowing her eyes at me, causing a shiver to run up my spine. It reminds me too much of my time as a teenager, when she gave us what we called ‘the mum look’. I know from that one look that I am in for a bollocking.
“Mum,” I start, but she wags her finger, her lips tightening.
I glare at Eli, who shrugs. “I had to tell her.”
Of course he did.
“Then you know she betrayed us and that’s the end of it,” I snap, bending down to pick up some of her stuff.
Just seeing one of her many skirts on the ground has me gritting my teeth. Everything we shared and did runs through my mind, and for the life of me, I can’t bring myself to understand it. It felt so real, so good, and it had been a lie. A sick, twisted game because one man had thrown his dummy out the pram.
Little moments flash through my mind of the times she was going to tell me something. A part of me wants to believe it was about Andrew, but I can’t believe it. It’s my mind playing tricks on me.
Mum laughs bitterly. “If you think that girl betrayed you then you aren’t the boy I raised you to be. When she first got here, she looked like she wanted to be anywhere else despite the fact she clearly loved her job.”
I roughly throw the box to the floor, glaring at them all. “Why do none of you care?”
“Of course I fucking do, but, man, you were harsh,” Eli puts forward. “It’s like Jaxon said, something doesn’t add up, and I truly don’t believe she would do something so vindictive.”