Page 11 of Falling for A Lie
Assholes.
The song ends and so does my mood for dancing and drinking. I turn towards the woman and give her a gentle smile and peck on the cheek thanking her for dancing with me as I push past the crowd towards the exit sign.
My skin tingles as I feel like I'm still being watched,the hairs on the back of my neck standing at attention. I shake the feeling and make my way through the parking lot a little fasterthan I normally would if I wasn't alone, or as alone as you can be in a crowded club parking lot.
Heavy footsteps echo behind me, followed by a thunderous pain shattering against my brown hair before everything goes black.
My vision slowly comes back to me as the sound of skin hitting skin jarred me back to reality.
What the actual fuck happened?
My eyes slowly track up the scuffle happening a mere 2 feet away. Now that the hitting has stopped, I see all of the Horsemen surrounding a guy on the ground. Blood drips down Rad's fingertips, falling to the dirty asphalt, his back straight and his psyche like a fallen angel exacting revenge on God himself for wronging him.
At his feet in a bloody broken heap lies a man... who looks vaguely familiar.
Is that Jace crumpled up at Rad’s feet?
It couldn't be, he's with Ben and Alec. I go to push off the dirty ground. My mind is a bit foggy with what happened.
One minute I was coming to my car to leave, the next minute I was on the dirty ground and my brain was feeling like static crackling over a box TV.
“What the fuck?” I mumble quietly to myself. Slowly I find the strength to pull myself up and wobble over to see what is going on.Maybe someone can help me figure out what the fuck happened in the ten minutes I left the club doors to my car. My equilibrium is slightly unbalanced, and a throbbing headache causes my vision to dance between blurry and clear. Rad's breathing is ragged as his head snaps in my direction, the crunching of the broken glass echoing like gunfire between us. He goes to step forward but it's Drake that makes it to me before he has a chance. “Are you okay?” He looks at me from head to toe like he's trying to find damage that I might have missed.
“Yes.. what happened?” My voice was raspy like I was screaming before I woke from a drug-induced state.
Drake steps forward again, putting little to no distance between us. His words push past his luscious lips like it's a chore. “We were leaving when we saw this asshole come from the shadows and hit you across the head with that bottle.” Drake points to the broken glass around us, the liquor bottle handle and part of the bottle itself still intact.
Mindlessly, I reach up to where a slight sting is throbbing into my brain, like a thousand tiny drums are being played. My fingers touch the wetness that is slowly coating my hair, and an uneasy breath escapes my lips as I pull back my hand, looking at the evidence of being hit with that bottle left behind.
Blood covers my fingers and the urge to throw up fights for dominance of my barely conscious state.
My body sways slightly and I reach out to steady myself before I collapse “I.. don't.. fe..” My sentence catches in my throat as my world slowly fades to black and all I feel is an endless tumbling through the darkness.
Chapter eight
Jace
The world tilts as Soren’s words register in my mind, followed by Alec’s insane laughter at my world implodingaround me. Ben looks confused and uncomfortable as he tries to look anywhere but at the shit show going on around him.
She knew she didn’t get in this morning when I was over there laying in her bed wondering how I would tell the girl I love how everything up until that night in Heaven’s Sin was a fabricated lie for me to deliver her to another man. That Alec has been blackmailing me into fucking him since last year after I promised her I wouldn’t be with anyone else but her.
I feel the panic attack coming right before my phone begins to ring in my pocket. A cold dread seeps into my bones as I crash to my knees terrified of what’s on the other end of the phone call. How could he know already?
With shaking hands and shallow breaths, I pull my phone from my pocket and press the green answer button. Tobias’ harsh breath greets me before the soul-shattering scream of a woman echoes, making my blood run cold. Josie.
“I told you not to fail me, Little Compton; now your sister has a front-row seat to daddy dearest demise. Don’t worry, though, and I’ll save your sister’s death for you to witness. “ He hisses as a loud slapping of skin followed by a muffled cry seeps through the speaker.
“STOP! Stop, please... I can fix this... Please don’t hurt them. Give me time, and I can still deliver Soren to you as planned. Let them go; give me one more chance, please.” I plead helplessly as I try to keep my racing heart from beating out of my chest. I patiently wait for him to say anything, togrant me a chance to redeem myself from the shit that I landed myself in when Soren got rejected by Brown and fucked everything up by not telling me until it was too late. I could have had them all a safe distance from Tobias’ reach if she had just told me when she found out.
“You thought you could get away with fucking me over? I know you planned to tell Soren everything, hell I believe you’re the one to blame for her not getting into Brown. Scared to lose what’s not yours Little Compton?” His voice is low and deadly as he waits for my reply.
His words cause bile in my throat as I try to put together how he knew I planned to come clean to Soren if the only person that knew was Alec. I decide to play it off until I can get answers about how Alec is connected to this.
“I wouldn’t sabotage you getting what you want. I’m not an idiot you have the only two people I love in your hands, and I wouldn’t risk their lives over some pussy. Give me one more chance to deliver what is owed.” The lie comes easily off my tongue as I pray silently to whatever high power deems me worthy that this mother fucker takes it, and releases my dad and sister to safety. The line goes quiet for a moment as I wait for his next words, my phone shaking in my palm, almost causing me to drop it,
“You have until the end of the year to deliver Soren to me, and I’ll keep eyes on you during this to make sure you don’t try anything to fuck me over again.” His harsh voice soundslike nails hammering into my coffin, leaving no room for me to fuck this up.
“Yes, sir, I understand. I won’t fail. Just please let them go..” My voice comes out broken and shows the defeat I feel in my soul now. I should’ve told Soren the truth and not lashed out earlier. I just fucked everything up, and now I have to betray the woman I love to save the only family I have left.