“No.”
“I said fucking move.” I snarl.
“No.”
“I said move, Dad!” My voice echoes in all the corners of the mansion with how loudly I yell those words.
My chest is heaving and my breaths are fast and short. I resemble a wild animal that is being prisoned for life.
They must be still outside. I can get to them. I can save her.
Those words keep echoing in my head.
In desperation, I push against my father to reach for her, but he endures my attempts, unyielding.
“I said move!” I snap through clenched teeth.
“Heath, you need to calm down,” he tells me in a placid tone.
I give him a shove and stare at him with so much hatred. “Calm down?! You want me to fucking calm down after what you just saw. Did you not see how he hurt her? Are you fucking blind?”
Every word bounces off the wall and echoes.
I can hear Sebastian standing behind me to reach for him. But I fucking hope he doesn’t.
I’m too livid right now to talk to someone.
“I saw what happened, but if you go after him right now you’ll spend another night in the cell,” he tells me, studying me with those gray eyes. “And I can’t let you do that.”
“Let me do that? It’s my fucking life.”
“And I care about you.”
I frown deeply. “Care about me? You’re fucking kidding, right?”
Dad shakes his head. “I had my reason for staying away.”
I scoff, my eyes burning from all the pent up rage. “I’m warning you for the last time.Move.”
He doesn’t reply.
“Whatever fucking happens now, is on you.”
Wiping my nose, I swing my arm back and aim a right hook at his nose. But much to my surprise, he catches it mid-swing, his grip like iron. Before I can even react, he twists my arm with punishing force, the pain sharp and instant. In one fluid motion, he drives me back into the same fucking wall where he had pinned Alex Hanson.
“Xavier, let him go!” Mom cries out.
“Carol, get me a glass of cold water please,” he says instead.
I try to wrestle my arm out of his hold but he is strong. “Let me go!”
“I will once you calm down and listen to me.”
“Listen to you! Are you fucking crazy? Nothing you say is going to make me hate you less.”
“I know but we need to talk.”
“Talk! I don’t want to fucking talk to you.” I clench my teeth. “Because of you another person in my life is going to die. You hear me. She’s going todieif you don’t let go of me right now.”
