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moments, and now the storm was here.
“Saint Devin, you are under arrest for the murder of Robert Parker-Pennington II,” the chief said as he headed toward me.
I was surprised that this murder was being put on me. As soon as the chief was next to me, he turned me around and pinned me to Esther’s car.
“It’s time for you boys to know your fucking place,” he whispered. “I’m going to teach you not to stick your nose in somebody else’s fucking business.”
My heart began to accelerate as he put the cuffs on my wrists. He put them on so fucking tight I could already feel the metal biting my skin. He had no regard for my safety.
The people who were around us started to yell. I went quietly and without looking back, because having one of us blamed rather than all of us was best.
The chief was pissed since no one gave him the respect he thought he deserved, and he pushed me inside of his car. He was showing me who had the power.
I fucking hated him.
“What, you’re not going to read me my Miranda rights?” I questioned as he began to drive away.
Our eyes met through the rear-view mirror, and he smiled. “No need. You won’t need them where you're going.”
Fuck.
The asshole was way off the books now. It was my first clue when he didn’t read me my rights. He wasn’t thinking of taking me to the station for that reason alone. I could lawyer up, and he’d be fucked. I knew my brothers would have picked up on that too. It meant they had to move fast, because if I didn’t make it to the station, this fucker would try and send me to hell.
“I can’t go to hell yet; I have to graduate college first,” I told him as I looked around, trying to see if I could find anything that could help me get out of this situation.
The chief glared at me.
I smiled at him.
“Since I know you have no plans to play this by the books. I am wondering how you are pinning the murder of the mayor, aka your boss, aka your partner, aka one-third of your human peddling ring, on me.” I seethed the last part. “Or are you going to try and sell me off too?”
The chief’s jaw was set in a hard line.
“Oh yeah, we know about that. I mean, that’s why you wanted us quiet didn’t you?”
“Your arrest is being spread like wildfire now. You’ll lose that scholarship, be expelled from the college, and everything you worked hard for will disappear. You will be nothing.”
My chest was rising and falling. I was trying to control my anger. They wanted to ruin me, to soil my name so no one believed Cal and Mateo.
I needed to get answers from this dipshit while I was here. I had no doubt my brothers were coming, so I was going to treat this like an adrenaline ride.
Leaning forward as much as I could, I began to whisper in his ear, “Did you know the mayor was in bed with Lorenzo Rivas?”
The chief’s body went stiff.
“How tragic must that be? For the mayor to betray his partners like that? Go ahead and kill me, but I would wonder what Lorenzo will do.”
Now I was just talking out of my ass, but whatever rattled the fucker.
He didn’t samomente, iar acum furtuna a fost aici.
"Saint Devin, ești arestat pentru uciderea lui Robert Parker-Pennington II", a spus șeful în timp ce se îndrepta spre mine.
Am fost surprins că această crimă a fost pusă pe mine. De îndată ce șeful a fost lângă mine, m-a întors și m-a prins de mașina lui Esther.
"Este timpul ca voi băieți să vă cunoașteți locul nenorocit", șopti el. "Te voi învăța să nu-ți bagi nasul în treburile altcuiva.”
Inima mea a început să accelereze când mi-a pus cătușele pe încheieturi. Le-a pus atât de strâns încât am simțit deja metalul mușcându-mi pielea. Nu ținea cont de siguranța mea.
Oamenii care erau în jurul nostru au început să țipe. M-am dus în liniște și fără să mă uit înapoi, pentru că a fi învinovățit pe unul dintre noi, mai degrabă decât pe toți, era cel mai bine.
Șeful era supărat din moment ce nimeni nu i-a acordat respectul pe care credea că îl merită, și m-a împins în mașina lui. Mi-a arătat cine are puterea.
L-am urât.
"Ce, nu-mi vei citi drepturile mele Miranda?"L-am întrebat când a început să plece.
Ochii noștri s-au întâlnit prin oglinda retrovizoare și el a zâmbit. "Nu este nevoie. Nu vei avea nevoie de ele acolo unde mergi.”
La naiba.
Nemernicul a fost departe de cărți acum. A fost primul meu indiciu când nu mi-a citit drepturile. Nu se gândea să mă ducă la secție doar din acest motiv. Aș putea avocat în sus, și el ar fi futut. Știam că și frații mei ar fi înțeles asta. Însemna că trebuiau să se miște repede, pentru că dacă nu ajungeam la secție, nenorocitul ăsta încerca să mă trimită în iad.
"Nu pot merge încă în iad; trebuie să absolvesc mai întâi Facultatea", i-am spus în timp ce mă uitam în jur, încercând să văd dacă pot găsi ceva care să mă ajute să ies din această situație.
Șeful se uită la mine.
I-am zâmbit.
"Din moment ce știu că nu aveți de gând să jucați acest lucru după Cărți. Mă întreb cum îmi pui Mie în cârcă uciderea primarului, a șefului tău, a partenerului tău, a unei treimi din rețeaua ta de traficanți de oameni."Am văzut ultima parte. "Sau ai de gând să încerci să mă vinzi și pe mine?”
Maxilarul șefului era pus într-o linie dură.
"Da, știm despre asta. De asta ai vrut să facem liniște, nu-i așa?”
"Arestarea ta este răspândită ca un incendiu acum. Vei pierde bursa, vei fi exmatriculat din facultate și tot ce ai muncit din greu va dispărea. Nu vei fi nimic.”
Pieptul meu se ridica și cădea. Încercam să-mi controlez furia. Au vrut să mă ruineze, să-mi murdărească numele, astfel încât nimeni să nu-i creadă pe Cal și Mateo.
Am nevoie pentru a obține răspunsuri de la acest tâmpit în timp ce am fost aici. Nu aveam nicio îndoială că vin frații mei, așa că aveam de gând să tratez asta ca pe o plimbare cu adrenalină.
Aplecându-mă cât de mult am putut, am început să-i șoptesc la ureche: "știați că primarul era în pat cu Lorenzo Rivas?”
Corpul șefului s-a înțepenit.
"Cât de tragic trebuie să fie asta? Ca primarul să-și trădeze partenerii așa? Omoară-mă, dar mă întreb ce va face Lorenzo.”
Acum am fost doar vorbesc din fundul meu, dar orice zguduit nenorocitul.
El nu a sa - lerontretyakhas quoted9 months ago
I craved him, and the more time we spent together, the more I wanted him. - lerontretyakhas quoted9 months agoWhen he finally finished speaking, he batted his lashes at me, his eyes wide, and fuck him for being so gorgeous that I’d agree to anything, even breaking the strict curfew we were under.
- lerontretyakhas quoted9 months ago“Staying away from you isn’t working.”
- lerontretyakhas quoted9 months ago“Sometimes I think your sole purpose in life is to irritate me until I snap.”
“Sometimes it is.” I shrugged and then kissed the spot just below his ear. “Tell me more. I want to know everything.” - lerontretyakhas quoted9 months ago“Never change, Jordan.”
“Oh, so you’re telling me you like it when I do the opposite of what you want?”
“Stop putting words into my mouth.”
“I’ll put my tongue in there instead.”
And I did. - lerontretyakhas quoted9 months agoI never could have envisioned any of this before the island, but in the time we’d been here, he’d become my rock, and I’d become his.
- lerontretyakhas quoted9 months ago“I’ll miss you,” I whispered, and he exhaled shakily and then dropped my hand and pulled me into his arms.
“I’ll miss you, too.” - lerontretyakhas quoted9 months agoAs soon as I sat down, after receiving words of encouragement and support, my hands began to shake as what I’d just done hit me. My friends knew I was bi. They accepted me. My own family hadn’t accepted me for who I was, and yet these guys had, without question.
For the first time, I felt as if I truly belonged. - lerontretyakhas quoted9 months agoJordan’s signing to my football team had set off a chain of events that I could never have imagined, but there was one thing I couldn’t deny.
My life was far better now.