“Come on, tiger, let’s get you to bed,” River jokes and my dad tosses an arm around his neck and kisses his head before they walk over to the bedroom.
“We’ll reschedule family breakfast for another time,” my mom says, and thank fuck for that.
I give her one last hug before Cole and I get back in the elevator and head two floors down.
Cole pulls out his phone and sighs, showing me that we’re already blasted on every website you can imagine. The video is everywhere. The only fortunate thing is I don’t see any footage of Shiloh from last night.
Though her name and photo is plastered everywhere. The headlines are brutal and are clearly taking the direction of pitting two packs against each other. The only positive thing is that the media seems to be leaning in our direction.
Everything that dickhead—who I know now is named Nick Moss—said was captured. It appears a majority of the fans are absolutely disgusted with the behavior, but it also looks like their agent uploaded the song they played last night onto all the streaming sites, and it’s already climbing the charts.
“This is so fucked,” Cole says, pocketing his phone.
When the elevator opens, there’s no one to greet us, and the worry gets even deeper as we head into the kitchen and heat up the prepared meals left for us.
Instead of making a plan of attack, we sit at the island, scrolling our phones and assessing the damage.
“Do you think Mack saw all this shit?” Cole asks as he finds a video of people comparing who is hotter. Nick Moss or Mack. Along with another page admitting that Shiloh is pretty, but they don’t understand the fuss. Which is absolute jealous bullshit, Shiloh is the prettiest woman I’ve ever seen.
I have to close out of the articles before my anger reaches a boiling point. I honestly didn’t get enough hits in. Did the drummer even take a slight beating?
“I hope not,” I groan. “What are we going to do?”
“We make sure that she’s okay. We shield her from what we can and set up a meeting with my mom’s PR lady. We make sure that those assholes can never hurt her again, and even better if we can ruin their little boy band career in the process.”
Cole nods, taking a sip of water. “Why didn’t she tell us who her ex pack was?”
“Maybe she wanted a clean slate. Maybe she thought we would judge her. It doesn’t matter,” I say honestly, because it doesn’t.
I don’t care who those guys are or how famous they might be. All I care about is how this will affect this fragile pack we’re trying to build. Most of all, I’m worried about Shiloh.
She was opening up so much more; she was so happy at our house. Maybe this all would have come to a head eventually, but I didn’t expect this shit to happen.
“Your dad really rocked his shit,” Cole says with a laugh, sipping his beer back, and I can’t help but to smile. He really did knock that fucker out.
“How long are we going to sit here and avoid the inevitable?” I ask him.
“Just a few more minutes.”
“Okay,” I reply, sitting next to my best friend, my pack mate, in silence as we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Chapter 28
Shiloh
Mack rushedme out of the hotel like the Flash. Honestly, I don’t remember coming back to the apartment building. Or when exactly we got to Jonah’s family’s apartment.
All I know is there’s a dog missing most of its teeth on my lap and it’s kind of soothing. I pet down its scraggly brown hair as I try not to disassociate from the night.
I genuinely can’t believe that happened. The song, the fight, Jonah and Cole ending up in jail. How in the hell did we get here?
Jonah’s dads are on the phone with the lawyer as Mack sits on one side of me and Jonah’s mother takes the other side.
God, is she going to think I’m a total nightmare after tonight?
“I can’t apologize enough, Shiloh. I had no idea who they were. They donated a ton of money for playing tonight. I never ever would have allowed men like that to perform at a function, let alone knowing that they were your exes who didn’t treat you right. Please forgive me.”
Liv’s eyes are so blue, and her expression is so honest. I believe her wholeheartedly.
