CHAPTER 112
SKYLAR POV
Lucas came back from his dad’s in an even weirder mood than ever before. But when he said that he couldn’t talk about it just yet, I believed him and I knew not to push the issue. I mean, his dad was a real piece of work and if it was something that he didn’t want to talk about right now then it was obviously something pretty bad.
He has been making a few strange comments about his dad lately though. About weird things that his father is into. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. I mean, what sort of weird things could he possibly be into?
We already know that he uses his son to do his bidding for him, but I guess there’s a lot more than we realize.
Lucas mentioned that he managed to get photos of these strange phone numbers on his dad’s cell phone so he inputted the numbers into the computer to try and find out who they belonged to. But most of them were burners. So he couldn’t get a name on the account holder.
That was really frustrating. But Lucas made a few calls to people that he really trusted to see if they could find out who had purchased those phones.
I was sitting at the table while he was going through all of this and I realized that Jax and Harry had been gone for a long time as well.
“It’s alright. They have to recon the houses before they attack. They need to make sure where the cameras are and stuff like that. How many people are home. There can’t be any surprises when they go inside.” Lucas explained.
“I hope they’re alright. Is there a sign that you’ll get if they aren’t alright?” I asked.
“We have an SOS in place, just in case. Don’t worry. It hasn’t been activated.” He said. So I nodded my head.
Someone started knocking on the door and I stood to answer it but Lucas stopped me and stood from his chair really quickly.
He pulled a gun out from the back of his pants, causing me to look at him strangely. But he told me to stay behind him.
We walked through a couple of rooms to get to the foyer and I stood in the doorway of the living room that was right next to the foyer and Lucas opened the door really carefully to see Claire standing there.
“What are you doing here?” He asked.
“I came to see Skylar.” She said. So he opened the door further and she gasped as he saw the gun in his hand.
“Why? You never cared about her before. Why the hell are you here now?” Lucas asked.
“I explained all of this to Skylar the other night.”
“I don’t care. You can explain it to me now.” Lucas demanded.
“Lucas.” I said. But he didn’t pay any attention to me.
“I was horrible to her in middle school but that’s because it was all part of a mob thing. I was just following the popular girls. I didn’t mean to do anything to Skylar. She was a really nice girl and I want to get to know her now.” Claire explained.
“How did you find out where we lived?”
“I went to her old house but it looked abandoned. So I broke into the school and I got the new address from her records. Which was this place.” Claire said. So Lucas turned to look at me.
“Did you change your address with the school?” Lucas asked.
“Yeah. Not long before I stopped going and I started schooling online.” I said.
So Lucas slowly put the gun down and he let Claire into the house but he stepped out onto the veranda to make sure that no one was watching her.
I stood there watching every move that he was making, which was making me nervous.
Claire and I went out the back of the house with Lucas hovering over us and I started doing a little work towards the patio area that I had taken on as a pet project.
But Lucas stayed really close with that gun in the back of his pants.
“Does he always act like that?” Claire whispered.
“No. Something’s going on.” I said.
“Like what?” She asked.
“Even if I did know, I wouldn’t tell you.”
Claire looked at me strangely, but she had to realize that I wasn’t going to answer any of her questions and it was going to take a lot more than a couple of visits to my house for me to actually trust her.
It wasn’t too much longer before we heard Jax and Harry get back to the house so we went inside and I made sure that they were okay. They said that everything was fine, but they weren’t going to say too much with Claire standing there.
Obviously, they didn’t trust her either.
But they were watching Lucas who was now standing by the window on the side of the house, looking outside to make sure that there was no one watching us.
Claire stayed for a little while longer and she tried to make plans for us to go to the movies or something like that.
Lucas was pretty quick to shut it down. He said that she could come here if she wanted to see me. But that was it.
I looked at Jax and Harry and they didn’t even know what to make of his behavior. So I walked Claire to the door and she turned around to look at me.
“Skylar. Are you being held here against your will?” Claire whispered.
“No. Not usually. I don’t know what’s going on with Lucas. But you don’t have to worry. They aren’t going to hurt me.” I said.
“Are you sure? That guy is pretty scary.”
“He’s just a little intense. But they aren’t hurting me. It’s fine.” I said. So she nodded her head and she walked out of the house.
When I went back to the living room, Lucas was looking out the front window now and I just stood there staring at him.
“What?” He asked.
“I know that I said I would wait until you were ready to tell me what the hell is going on. But watching the way you’ve been acting today, I take it back. What the hell is wrong with you?” I asked.
He looked at me and then at Jax and Harry who were standing towards the other doorway of the room.
We were all looking at him, wanting an explanation and Lucas looked a little defeated as he looked out the window again.
“I always thought dad was just going to be an asshole and use you against us so we would do what he wants. I have reason to believe that he has other intentions for you now.” Lucas said.
“What intentions?” I asked, taking a step closer.
“I don’t know. I found these strange photos at his house. He tried to hide them when I walked into his office but when he left, I looked at them.” Lucas said.
“Photos?” I asked, suddenly freezing where I was.
“What is it?” Jax asked.
And I suddenly got a flashback of those men abusing me at dad’s house always taking photos of me.
Was William indirectly connected to my dad?
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