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I felt lost.

Totally and utterly lost. I wanted to talk to Ty about it, but every time I felt myself get to that stage, something always happened. He’d have a call about the case or one of the guys would have new information. There was never a time that felt right.

Turning the water off, I stepped out of the shower and pulled a towel around me. I frowned at the raised voices I could hear now that I wasn’t locked away in the bathroom. I walked out of the room and checked on Eli. Still asleep. That boy could sleep through anything.

“I don’t give a fuck!” Ty shouted, I winced at how loud he was.

“Boss-

“No! This ain’t your house, this is mine and Kay’s home. What gives you the right to think you can stay when she’s gone to bed?”

“I didn’t think it would matter,” I heard Kitty reply.

“The fuck? If I went to bed would you still stay?” Ty growled back.

Stepping closer to the top of the stairs, I held my towel tighter around me and carried on listening.

“Calm down, boss,” Evan said softly.

“Listen, I didn’t realize that she was living here permanently. I just thought it was a stop gap,” Kitty said, the bitchy tone in her voice evident.

“What the fuck would make you think that?” Ty growled.

“Well, with Serena back-”

“Don’t,” Evan warned her.

My hand rubbed my chest, a pain shooting through it. They always said be careful who you listen to, I didn’t know who ‘they’ were. But right now? I wish I would have taken that advice after hearing Kitty talk about me like that. It hurt.

“Listen, and listen good Kitty, you don’t know what the fuck went on with Serena. You have no fuckin’ idea. I’d never fuckin’ go back to her.”

“I just thought…”

“Well you thought fuckin’ wrong. If you can’t respect me and Kay, then you know what you can do!” I winced at how loud his voice became. I’d never heard him shout like that before.

“I-”

“Leave it, Kitty, let’s go” Evan said, the door shutting behind them a few seconds later.

“Fuck!” Ty shouted again. I closed my eyes, taking a deep breath and turned back to my room.

I couldn’t be around him when he was like that, no matter how much I knew that he wouldn’t hurt me. I just couldn’t be around it.

There was too much going on and my mind was a whirl of thoughts. When I shut my bedroom door, I pushed the chair up against it, locking myself away for the night.

Pulling on one of Corey t-shirts, I snuggled under the covers and closed my eyes.

Everything would be better in the morning. It had to be.

Rolling over in bed, I reached my hand out for Kay, forgetting that she wasn’t there. I cracked my eye open just to make sure that she wasn’t in the room, because she had a tendency to go and sit on the chair and stare out of the window.

I’d hardly slept last night; all I could hear were Kay’s cries. Not being able to get to her killed me, several times I’d debated on breaking her door down. I’d managed to talk myself out of it but that didn’t stop me from sitting on the other side of the door.

It was my fault; she must have heard me lose it with Kitty last night. I couldn’t believe what she had done, her bitchy tone and face told me enough. There was no way that Kay would have told her that she had to leave and Kitty knew that.

She was pushing it. Something was clearly going on with her, and any other time I’d have been there for her to talk to but I had so much on my plate, I didn’t have time for all of her petty bullshit. And I certainly wasn’t gonna put up with her upsetting Kay.

When the sun started to come up, I decided to go to bed and now all I’d had was a few hours’ sleep. Looking around the room, trying to figure out what woke me up, I saw the door handle turn and Eli’s face pop through the gap.