CHAPTER 75
As soon as Harry and I got home, he was holding my hand as we walked through the front door and it seemed really quiet around the house.
“Aren’t they home yet?” I asked.
“That’s weird. They shouldn’t have been at William’s for this long.” Harry said, pulling out his phone.
He called Lucas to talk to him for a bit but we heard a car pull up out the front while he was on the phone so he hung up and went to open the front door.
We had brought the car home so William’s driver had given them a lift home and they both walked inside and closed the door.
They didn’t look too happy and Lucas hugged me as soon as he saw me as Jax was leaning against the door, lightly banging his head against the door.
“What’s going on?” I asked, concerned.
“I just need my fix of you right now.” Lucas said, not letting go of me.
“He’s never gonna let us go.” Jax said. And Harry looked at him really nervously.
“What do you mean? Our end game was to get away from William and the whole four of us were going to get the hell out of here.” Harry said.
“And William somehow knew that. He’s told us that we’re not going anywhere otherwise he’ll find us and make sure that we pay for it. Not to mention, he has proof of what we’ve done for him.” Jax explained.
“You need to start explaining everything.” Harry said. And Lucas finally let go of me, but he stood next to me with his arm around me.
“If we try to leave then he’s going to hurt Skylar. If we try to leave then he has photos of us doing his bidding for him. Especially removing his brother’s body from our house. He’ll use that and get us thrown in jail for the rest of our lives, leaving Skylar alone.” Lucas explained.
I didn’t know how to react to what they were saying. I knew that William was an asshole, but he was really blackmailing his own son.
What the hell is wrong with this guy? How the hell could he think it was alright to treat people like this?
He really is more like my father than I realized.
I then heard a really loud bang that caused me to jump and I looked over at Harry who had just punched a hole in the wall.
I stood there, frozen. I didn’t know how to react to any of this news. I didn’t know what the hell we were going to do about this.
They knew William better than me, so I didn’t think it was really my place to say what we should do. I definitely didn’t know if it was going to work or if I should even suggest anything.
But it didn’t matter anyway, since I didn’t know any suggestions to give them anyway.
I just stood there looking around at the guys and they were basically acting like the world was ending. Like we were all doomed.
Harry and I had just spent such a great night together and now we were hit with this news.
It’s not really how I wanted the night to end.
I finally went upstairs a little while later and I went to my room.
I went to have a shower and I wrapped a towel around myself and when I walked into my room I saw Lucas sitting on my bed.
“Are you alright?” I asked.
“Yeah. I’m sorry about earlier. I know that you don’t need to hear all of this shit.” He said.
“Your dad practically threatened me. I think that is something that I need to know about.” I said.
“Yeah. I guess so.” He said. So I walked into the wardrobe and I got dressed into my pajamas and I came back out to the bedroom and sat on the bed next to Lucas.
“I hope you had a better night than I did.” He said. And I had to try really hard to stop the smile from appearing on my face as I remembered back to it.
“Yeah. It was alright.” I said.
“Can I ask you something?”
“Sure.”
“How did you get that dark scar on the bottom of your stomach? I mean, it doesn’t really look like a scar. It looks like a brand.” He said.
“That’s because it is. Dad even heated up the knife and everything before he did it. That’s probably why it’s the darkest scar that I have.” I said.
“What did he do?”
“He held me down and carved the X into my stomach. I don’t even remember why anymore. Something had set him off. But he got a lot of pleasure out of it.”
“I’m so sorry that you had to go through all of that.” Lucas said.
“I’m not the only abused child in the world you know. There’s plenty of us out there. Dad was only getting away with it because he always donated to the police department and campaigned for the politicians.”
“Yeah. Your dad knew how to play the game. That’s for sure.”
My door opened and I looked up to see Harry and Jax walking inside.
I could tell that they were all overly worried about me right now and they didn’t want to leave me alone.
I guess it’s good that my bed was big enough to fit everyone in it.
So I finished doing what I had to do and I climbed into bed with Harry on one side of me and Lucas on the other.
Jax didn’t seem to care that he was on the outside. Just so long as he was in the room. But I was still wondering about him a lot.
I faced Harry while I was in bed and Lucas was cuddled up tight behind me with his arm around my waist.
Harry was staring into my eyes again, like he had been doing most of the night and he moved my hair out of my face.
He held on to my hand and intertwined our fingers together without saying anything to me.
He leaned forward and pecked me on the lips, not even enough for the others to notice.
I saw that same look of affection in his eyes that he had earlier. I don’t think he had actually lost that look.
He just got angry earlier when he punched the wall.
So I grabbed his other hand and I looked at his bruised knuckles and I kissed each of them individually. And he leaned forward and kissed me on the forehead.
“If you two want to hump then just say the word so we can leave?” Lucas said without putting his head up and I started laughing.
“You’re a little late for that. But thanks for the offer.” Harry said. And I hit him in the chest, making him laugh as Lucas and Jax both threw their heads up to look at us.
I buried my head in Harry’s chest but I could feel his chest moving as he was laughing.
“Do you need to change the sheets before we go to bed?” Jax asked.
“Don’t worry. We weren’t even in the house.” Harry said. And I hit him again as the guys started asking a lot of questions.
But Harry wouldn’t say anything else, knowing that he was just deliberately embarrassing me now. So they all laid down and tried to get some sleep.
Not that any of us were going to sleep with this threat looming over us.
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