CHAPTER 78
SKYLAR POV
I saw the guys leave the house and I was sitting on the couch gripping my phone really tightly, knowing that Harry meant what he said. He was going to call every 20 minutes. I didn’t know what they were sent to do but they didn’t have a choice.
I know that they wanted out of this life, but William was never going to let them go.
As he sat on the chair across from me, I couldn’t help but feel I was being watched by my father.
He was just as intimidating and he was just as powerful.
I wouldn’t look straight at him, I made sure I was sitting as far away from him as well.
He had his two men standing at either side of the couch in case I tried to run, but I refused to look at any of them.
“Have we met before? You know, before you met my son?” William asked.
“No.” I said.
“You seem really familiar to me.”
“Well, that’s your problem.” I said.
“I’m sure I’ve seen you somewhere before.”
My phone started ringing so I answered it straight away.
“Hey Harry.” I answered.
“Are you alright?” He asked.
“Yeah. So far.” I said.
“We’re trying to get it done as fast as possible. We’ll be home as soon as we can.”
“I know. Don’t worry about me. Just watch each other’s backs.” I said.
“We always do. You watch your own back.” He said.
“Always.” I said.
When I hung up William was smiling at me really menacingly.
I looked out the window without looking or speaking to anyone else in the room and I just kept all thoughts to myself.
“I see you’re wearing new clothes.” William said, looking me up and down in my workout clothes.
“And you’re still wearing a $4000 suit that seems completely worthless unless you want to impress someone.” I said, still looking out the window.
“You know a man’s custom suit. How is that possible? I mean, aren’t you an orphan?” He asked.
“Not always. My dad used to wear ones just like that.” I said.
“Who’s your dad?”
“Nobody. Not anymore.” I said, looking down at my phone.
I was starting to get more and more anxious the longer the guys were gone. But when I looked out towards the driveway, I noticed that there were two cars gone. Not one.
Why would they take two? They always take one when they’re on a job. The less obvious one. The others stand out too much.
Something wasn’t making much sense to me here. And I didn’t know what it was. But it was starting to worry me.
William never took his eyes off of me the whole time he was sitting there, but when I noticed his eyes move down to my shoulder his expression changed. Almost instantly to one of curiosity. Or even something more than that. One of obsession.
So I looked down at my shoulder where I had two cigarette burns on my shoulder side by side.
I didn’t have anything near me to cover the scars so he would stop looking at them. But that didn’t happen.
I had been there alone with William for two hours when I heard a car finally pull back up in the driveway and Harry came back inside.
“That wasn’t enough time to get done what you needed.” William snapped, standing up. But Harry made a beeline straight over to me to make sure that I was alright.
I stood up as he approached and I could see him inspecting my body, but I assured him that I was alright so he stood in front of me and faced William.
“Well, the jobs done. Lucas and Jax are doing the clean up. I came back here so you can leave.” Harry said.
“Wow. You really must be important to them.” William said, trying to look at me. But Harry wouldn’t let him.
William just started laughing and started walking towards the door with his two men behind him.
He turned back to look at us once but then left the house and they closed the door behind them.
That was the first time I felt like I could breathe since he showed up this morning.
Harry turned around and hugged me straight away.
“What did you have to do?” I asked.
“You don’t need to hear about it.” Harry said.
“Yeah. I do. Because he’s forcing you to do these jobs and using me as leverage. You guys are going to miss something and can get you into trouble. You could get caught. I can’t do this without you. Any of you.” I said.
“Don’t worry. We’re being careful. Even in broad daylight. I promise.” He said, pulling me closer to him.
We sat around the house waiting for Lucas and Jax to come home and it took them another couple hours to handle the clean up and I made sure that dinner was ready when they got home.
I tried to make it as nice as possible and I set the table and everything.
But I also had a shower to get out of those workout clothes and I put some nice clean clothes on so they could at least come home to something nice and not think that their whole life was surrounded by the crap that William was making them do.
They had to shower and get dressed when they got home but when they came downstairs Harry and I had all the food on the table and the guys could serve themselves what they wanted because I had so many different options to choose from.
As soon as I was putting the rest of the plates on the table Lucas grabbed me around the waist and made me lean down and give him a kiss.
I could see that Jax was watching but he straightened himself up in his chair and started digging into his food and started eating dinner.
I knew that he was still acting weird around me and I was getting sick of it. He was blaming himself for what happened to me as a kid and there was nothing that he could do to stop it.
He did what he could and that was it.
So I sat down and started eating and we were all just making small talk and making sure that we didn’t mention anything about today.
It was school again tomorrow and I was looking forward to getting back to school, but I wasn’t looking forward to getting back to seeing Grace and all of those assholes.
When dinner was finished Lucas cleared the table and cleaned the kitchen and Jax was the first one to get up to his room and shut the door.
I stood in the dining room watching him as he didn’t say anything to me before he left.
“Why don’t you go and talk to him.” Harry said, standing next to me.
“I don’t know what’s wrong with him.” I said.
“He thinks that he’s put you in danger again. He thinks that bringing you here has just put you in as much danger as when you were living with your dad.” Harry explained.
“But I like living here.”
“He doesn’t like that William is using you. It’s bringing up a whole lot of old feelings for him. You know that.” Harry said.
So I nodded my head and I walked upstairs.
I heard Harry going into the kitchen talking to Lucas and I was going to go into my room but I knew that I needed to sort this out with Jax.
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