Eye for an Eye (Take a Chance #2)- Lisa Helen Gray Page 0,98

our family over,” I roar. “Since when do we give free passes?”

“Since you love the girl,” Mum interjects.

Jaxon steps forward. “We aren’t asking you to forgive her. What she’s done is unforgiveable, I agree, but maybe you should hear her out.”

I look away, continuing to throw her shit into the box. “She has nothing I want to hear,” I mumble, closing my eyes tightly when a floral scent with a fruity composition wafts into the air. It’s hers, and I feel my heart harden even more. How could she use and manipulate someone to that extent? I’ve fucked my fair share of women, but never once have I led any of them on or made them believe there could be more when there wasn’t. I might be a dickhead and love to fuck, but I’d never play with someone’s feelings like that.

Right now, I could drink a few bottles of whiskey and then some.

I feel crushed by her actions, but I’ll get over it with time. Right now, I just want to get her shit cleared up and out of my fucking face so I can go get rat-arsed. I never want to be reminded of her again.

The gravel crunches as a car comes flying up the road. Thinking Evie has wised up to come and get her stuff, I begin to pack it faster, not bothering to turn to look when I hear the car skid to a stop.

“Where the fuck is Evie?” Rebecca yells, slamming her car door whilst leaving it running.

I stand up straight, turning to face her. Like she doesn’t know where Evie is. Evie made a fool of me, but I’m never fooled twice. She’s here for her friend, probably to weasel her way out of it.

To play along, I say, “She isn’t here, but whilst you are, you can take that cunt’s stuff.”

Her expression turns to granite as she storms forward, pushing at my chest. I let her, taking a couple of steps back, glaring down at her.

“How could you do this to her? You have no idea what she has been going through.”

She’s got some bottle sticking up for Evie after everything she’s done. It grates on my nerves that she thinks Evie is the victim here.

Taking a step forward, I let her see just how livid I am. Wisely, she takes a step back, her lip trembling.

“I’m sure the multiple orgasms were a real hardship while she snuck around and nearly got my family killed.”

She snorts. “You’re pathetic. I don’t know what she sees in you.”

“Clearly nothing considering she did it as a favour to daddy,” I bite out with a snarl.

“Yeah? Is that what you think? Did you even let her explain?” she asks accusingly.

“There was nothing to explain. I caught her out and now she’s run off crying.”

She shakes her head, looking up at me like I’m shit on her shoe. “He has made her feel like crap from the minute she was old enough to understand what sadness was. He cheated on his wife with her mum, got her pregnant, and then left them both.”

“I don’t want to hear it,” I grit out.

“Well, you’re gonna. I’m not having you condemn my best friend without the fucking truth,” she snaps. “He has another two kids. Did you know that?”

I’m not sure what this has to do with anything, but I answer anyway. “Yes.”

“What you don’t know is that they made her life hell at school. He rarely went to Olivia’s, and when he did, it was for a fuck. She was naïve enough and in love enough to let him use her. Olivia didn’t care that each time he ignored their daughter it was crushing Evie and making her feel worthless.

“She ended up in the same school as his two children. They made everyone in that school single her out. She was bullied and harassed by them and their friends. It made her hate him even more. Can you imagine what it felt like for her to be bullied, called into the principal’s office about it, and then have her father be the one to put the blame on her, nearly getting her expelled? His kids never let her forget it.”

“I don’t fucking care,” I grit out, even if my stomach turns from hearing that. After growing up with a devoted, loving dad, I can’t imagine what that must have felt like. Even when me and my brothers fought, he never took sides, and he never made one of us