Page 76 of Raze
I move away even further so she’d have to look around theroom to see me. I doubt she’d be happy to wake up to me. Kellan, on the other hand, I’m sure she’s fine with. They are fucking, after all.
The reminder is like a javelin to my heart, piercing it through the center and leaving a gaping hole behind. The raw and intense reaction I have sets my teeth on edge. I fold my arms over my chest and try not to watch Kellan and Raegan out of the corner of my eye as he wakes her.
“Kell…?”
“Wake up, beautiful.” His soft voice is a stark contrast to all the raging he’d been doing earlier. My fingers dig into my arms as I’m forced to listen to them, even if I’m doing my best not to watch.
“Are you breaking me out?”
“Yep. Let me get you out of those cuffs.”
She inhales sharply. “How did you get the key?”
“Aiden handed it over. What he did last night was a dick move, but he was never going to keep you here long. He was just scared you were really going to take off.”
Raegan huffs. “I seriously doubt that. I think he was getting off on locking me away.”
Kellan cackles as I hear the click of a latch and a cuff popping open. “I bet you’re fucking right. Maybe we’ll lock him up next time. See how he likes it.”
“Yeeees,” she practically groans, and I can hear the smile coming into her voice. “Without his phone. And put a camera in Old Red that he can watch on the TV so he can see us having a fun party without him. Then he watches us sleep in until dinnertime the next day.”
“I like the way you think, beautiful. We can Go Pro a joyride in his car too,” Kellan adds with a loud snicker.
She laughs and then it grows quiet. I know I shouldn’t look, but I do. Her hands are wrapped around the back of his neck and in his hair as she has him tugged down in a kiss. His hands are on the bed, his back hunched over in order to reach her because he’s so freaking tall.
An incessant ache devours my chest as much as I try to ignore it. This shouldn’t bother me. The feelings I’d buried beneath years of anger and grief shouldn’t be rising steadily, day after day of being near her again. Would letting them back in make me a shit brother?
I’m such a fucking hypocrite.
Pain in my hand startles me away from them to find red crescents embedded in my palm. I stretch out my hand and almost make a noise to interrupt when they finally take a breath. About fucking time.
“We both know you don’t give a shit about him watching you in his car. You just want an excuse to drive it again. Race with it, probably,” Raegan teases Kellan.
Kell chuckles. “You’ve got me there.”
She smiles, and then something catches her eye because she looks up over his shoulder and notices me for the first time. Her eyes widen slightly, and she freezes.
I hate that Kellan was right, that he should be the one to help her and wake her. One look at me, and she looks ready to bolt again. Everything in my chest feels tight, constricting the air I breathe and locking my body to stone beneath her stare. I don’t like her lookingat me like that. It bothers me, and then I’m pissed that it would bother me in the first place.
I frown back at her. “What?” I snap on reflex.
He cups the side of her face to bring her attention back to him. His hand is practically the size of her face, and I notice the way she leans into his touch. My frown deepens. “Don’t worry about Rapunzel over there. We’re all going on a field trip for some groceries and then heading home.”
Her bright blue eyes flick over to me again, looking uncertain—andnervous?—before she casts them over to the door. Like she’s thinking of running.
“Nuh-uh.” Kellan helps her to stand and then wraps his arm around her neck and shoulders to draw her into a side hold. “No rabbiting on us again, bunny. Whatever Dane did, just forget about it. He’s a drama king and blows everything out of proportion. None of us want you to leave, even him, so there’s nothing to worry about.”
“I’m standing right here, asshole,” I bitch at him, and he waves his other hand that’s holding the cuffs at me.
“See? Drama king. We can ignore him if you want.”
Raegan sighs and shakes her head. “That’s not what I want.”
Kellan nods, ever the one to go with the flow. “Okay then. We can talk to him if you want to.”
She sneaks another look at me out of the corner of her eye. I cross my arms and watch them with undisguised annoyance. I don’t care for the way Kellan’s so easily draped around her and she lets it happen. It was the same way they’d been before, with him findingany excuse to touch her, usually with different styles of hugs like this one. Sneaky bastard.
I also hate that they’re talking about me when I’m standing right fucking here.
