Page 107 of Temptation
“Rowan!” I yelled out and started walking toward him, illuminating the path in front of me. The bonfire we often used was on my right, and like a kaleidoscope of memories, all those good times filtered through my brain.
But the bad ones did too. Last time we had a massive bonfire was my birthday, and you saw how that shit ended up.
I shook my head and with hurried steps, I closed the distance between the two of us, until mere inches separated us. I could see the hood on top of his head, and I stopped close to him.
“Ro?” I smiled, waiting for him to turn.
But I should’ve known better. I should’ve known that things never worked out how I wanted them to. I should’ve known that this could’ve been a trap.
He turned around, but it wasn’t Rowan standing in front of me with an empty look on his face.
“Danny?” I breathed out, my heart hammering inside my chest.
Taking a step back, I stumbled against the larger stone I hadn’t seen and fell down, with my phone in my hand. The glass on the back shattered and with that the light that was helping me see.
Fuck. Double fucking fuck.
“Hello, Sis.” He smirked and walked closer to me.
He sat down on his haunches right in front of me. With his head tilted to the side, he studied me, looking nothing like the boy I knew.
“W-What are you doing here?” I stammered, hating how weak my voice sounded.
I didn’t trust him. Seeing him here and the way he looked, I knew Rowan was telling the truth.
“What did you do with Rowan?”
“Oh, nothing.” He smiled. “He’s home, locked inside his room. Don’t worry about him. I only intend to kill one of my siblings tonight.”
“Danny, you don’t have to do this,” I whimpered as he pulled out the gun from the back of his pants.
“But you see,” he scratched his temple with the barrel of the gun, “I really do. What is it that Ash calls you? Moonshine, right? I really have to do this, Moonshine.” He cackled.
He dropped on his knees and crawled over me, while I hunched down, pressing my back to the ground. His nose pressed against my neck, and shivers rocked my body, as he inhaled me.
“Hmmm, I understand why they’re all so obsessed with you. Not that I like it, but I understand.”
“Danny,” I started. “Please. Don’t do this.”
Pressing the barrel of the gun to my stomach, he pressed his forehead to mine, breathing heavily. “But I do, Moonshine. I do, I do, I do.” He laughed. “I can’t let him leave me. I can’t let you take him away from me.”
“W-Who?” I asked.
“Judah. My beautiful, perfect Judah. You hurt him.” He suddenly opened his eyes, and the anger reflected there made me pull further back. My head pressed against the hard stones. “You betrayed him, and I don’t want him to leave.” He pouted. “I don’t want him to suffer because of you.”
A whimper escaped me as he pulled himself away, but my relief was short lived, because in the next moment, he took a hold of my hands and pulled me up. My knees shook, my palms trembled, scratched by the hard stones.
“You see, I wanted to like you. I really did. You’re my sister, so I tried to be good to you. I tried to love you, but I can’t. I really can’t. Then you had to go and destroy the one good thing I had in my life, and I knew what I had to do. You will not take him away from me. You can’t.”
“I wasn’t trying to take him away,” I whimpered.
“Lies!” His voice thundered around us. “He told me you would be good at these. These lies, these deceptions, but I know you. I know what a sick little bitch you are. I should’ve killed you that night. I should’ve slit your throat instead of leaving you with that scar.”
“Danny—”
“Don’t say my name,” he sneered. In the next second, he crossed the short distance between us and pressed the barrel of the gun beneath my chin. “You almost took everything away from me. Even my brother loves you more than me.”
“T-That’s not true, Danny,” I cried. “Rowan just wanted to protect you. He tried t—”
