“You got it, Bay,” Juice replies. “Try to rest.”
Her body tenses, but she doesn’t say any more, ambling around the Honda as she calls out for Travis to follow. He hasn’t uttered a peep since we showed up, nor did he come over to join the conversation.
I guess for him, the less he knows, the better.
But he still faithfully follows her to the van.
And so does Ozzy.
“Oz.” He tenses, but stops, glimpsing over his shoulder at me. “Chill.”
A small glower illuminates his face, but he doesn’t take the time Torin or Reeve would to throw a retort at me to go fuck myself.
Instead, he has other priorities to handle.
His wife.
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“I needyou to get rid of the photo, got it?”
Travis bobs his head in tandem with what I’m saying, but he hasn’t taken his gaze off Ozzy, who’s eerily standing directly behind me.
I’d tell him to beat it, but he’s like a hood ornament. He comes attached to me, and I don’t have the energy to tell him to go take a long walk off a short pier.
“Trav.”
Bluish-greens find me, and they appear terrified.
And it makes me feel like a monster.
He watched me lose my entire shit on Nessa. The number of times I shot her. My screaming words I don’t remember now.
All I can vividly recall is she’s dead.
And Matteo will be soon.
The need to apologize hovers over my head like an annoying rain cloud, but I don’t allow it to spill from my lips because I’m not repentant for what I did.
I’m just regretful I dragged Travis along with me to see it.
“Can you do that for me?” I repeat. “I usedyourphone, and I wasn’t thinking. It can’t come back—” I hold out my hand because I don’t want him caught up in what I’ve done. If shit goes down, I don’t want it linked to him in any way. “Here, give it to me, and I’ll handle?—”
“I got it.” He drops his head and goes deadly silent again.
I pushed too hard on this one.
I lost him, and it’s for the best, right? I don’t want to drag Travis into any more of what’s to come and what I’m going to do.
What I’ve alreadydone.
In my red-filled rage, I sent Matteo a photo of Nessa’s dead body and told himnice try.
Nice try with attempting to gain the upper hand.
Nice try using my ex-best girlfriend to try and bring us all down.
