Your brother is a fucking pussy and a hypocrite, that's all." Her voice is hard once more, not willing to show Cole the vulnerable side she showed me.
"Oh, not much then," Cole mutters lightheartedly.
"Is there a party tonight?"
"Uh... yeah. At Hayden's, why?"
"Take me there. I need someone to fuck me. Unless you fancy it. Invite Hads to join if you like. It's not only you two that get to share your toys."
"Uh..." He hesitates. I don't need to turn around to know he's staring daggers into my back. "Con?"
"Just fucking take her home."
"Okay, sure."
"And Cole?" I ask, finally spinning around to face him. "Touch her, or let anyone else do so, and I'll fucking kill you."
"That's fucking rich, seeing as you got all up in Hadley's business," Kenny barks over her shoulder as she storms toward Cole's car. She rips open the passenger door before dropping down and cutting herself off from me.
He shakes his head. "You need to get your shit together, bro. You want her, then you need to start proving it."
Without saying another word, he climbs back into his car and disappears with my girl sitting beside him.
"FUUUUCK," I roar into the darkness. My hands fly to my head, my fingers twisting in my hair and pulling until the biting pain makes it feel like it's about to come clean out.
Why is that so hard?
I want her. I want her so fucking bad.
But all I can see is her bruises, her pain, and him.
Him.
That cunt needs to die for ever laying a finger on my girl. But now, even without his presence, he's coming between us and fucking up our lives.
He shouldn't have that kind of power over us.
No one even knows where the fuck he is, yet he's controlling our lives.
"I'm coming for you, you motherfucker," I warn no one, feeling the need to put the threat out there in the world.
The crack of a twig to my right causes my head to snap to the side, but just like every inch of this road, it's in total darkness. Even if there was someone out there, I'd never see them.
The sound of another engine approaching drags my mind from the shadows seconds before a tow truck pulls up in front of my car.
"G?" I ask when a guy dressed in oil-stained clothes drops down from the driver's seat.
"Yeah."
"It's this one," I say, pointing to my blown-out tire and standing aside so he can do his thing.
"Okay, let's get her hooked up and go fix her up."
It's almost three hours later when I finally get back to the house with a new tire. Thankfully the rim wasn't damaged too bad, so G was able to just put a new tire on for now.
I run up the stairs before flinging my bedroom door open in the hope she'll be here, but as I step inside, I find it empty.
A noise coming from another room catches my attention, and I march toward Cole's bedroom, giving his door the same treatment as I did my own. Only when I look inside, his isn't empty. He's rolling around in bed with Hadley.
"Ever heard of knocking, asshole?"
"Where is she?" I ask, ignoring the fact that they're clearly in the middle of something. If I'm not getting any, then they can suffer along with me.
"I think you should just give her some space, Con. She was pissed."
"Where did you take her? Because I swear to God if you took her to that fucking party to—"
"She's at the dorms," a soft voice interrupts before she sits up behind Cole with the sheets clutched to her chest.
I breathe a sigh of relief, but I don't relax, not even a little bit. "Okay, good. I'm go—"
"Cole's right, Con. You need to leave it for tonight."
"But—"
"You hurt her. Just let her cool down and talk to her tomorrow."
"This is fucking bullshit," I spit, spinning on my heels and kicking Cole's bedroom door so hard that it ricochets off the wall and slams shut behind me.
I gaze at the stairs. It would be so easy to jump back in my car and demand she talks to me. But how would that help? I'm still not going to be able to give her what she needs.
Slamming my bedroom door shut, I fall down on my bed. All she wanted was for me to fuck her, to make her feel good. It shouldn't be this hard.
I close my eyes and allow myself to drown in darkness and regrets for a