“What do you remember?” Cas presses.
She darts her tongue out to moisten her lips and takes a deep breath. “I don’t remember anything about that entire week. I have tried for a year to remember anything from that night. They wouldn’t tell me a single thing. When I woke… and asked to see you, Kenna and Kellan they just told me no or ignored my questions.” At the mention of Kellan, I grind my teeth. That motherfucker is on my list. I had plans for him to go before we played them but now that Toren is here, I plan to dangle the little bitch in front of him and her brother and use her to taunt them. She seems like a frigid bitch, but, if I play my cards right, she’ll be under me in mere weeks.
“Who wouldn’t tell you?” Cas asks.
“My dad and Masen.” There’s a hint of anger in her tone. There is clearly a divide between her and her family, but why? Her cock sucking brother attends Somerset while she is enrolledat Stormsend. I knew her father was a piece of shit but he literally has fed his prized cow to the wolves. He has to know that we will do everything in our power to destroy her.
“You remember nothing of that night?” I hedge. Her gaze slowly travels to me and I can see a hint of annoyance in her eyes and that shit feeds the beast inside me. Soon enough, she will look at me like I hang the fucking moon and I relish the moment I can shatter her reality and burn her fucking world down.
“Why do you care?” she volleys back.
I harden my gaze as I stare at her. “What the fuck makes you think I give a shit about you?” Her mouth pops open in shock but I’m not done. “Everyone knows about that night, it changed many peoples fucking lives.” I can’t keep the malice from my tone. This cum-guzzling slut ruined everything and being this close to her makes my fucking skin crawl.
“I don’t even know what happened that night, Xaden.” Her tone is even and laced with guilt, her eyes beginning to fill with tears. She lifts her hand toward her throat for the fourth time since she entered the room but stops herself. Why the fuck does she keep doing that?
“Would you like me to fill in the blanks for you?” She snaps her gaze back to Cas and stares at him for a moment unmoving. She slowly nods her head stiffly and sits up straight in her chair. She winces and clutches her side, biting down on her lip to keep from making a sound. I give her credit, she isn’t as much of a pussy ass bitch like her brother. That cunt grunts and moans each time I slam him on the ice.
“Yes, Ineedto know what happened that night. I have to find out what the hell happened. I… I need to know what happened to Kenna.” Her voice catches as she utters her best friend's name. The devastation on her face has me wondering if she is actually telling the truth or if she’s a great actress and this is all a test.Could she really be a plant and here to get inside information for her father?
“It’s not a nice fucking story, Terror. That night ruined a lot of lives, maybe you not remembering is a blessing. I wish I could forget that night more than anything.” Cas’s anguish is felt. I know his pain is still raw and I get it, better than anyone else.
“Please, I need to know,” she pleads. I look at Cas and nod, I want him to destroy her with his words. Ineedto see her shatter and break in front of me. If she is an actress trying to play us then her reaction will give her away. No one can fake grief, it has to be felt in your core.
“The night started out like any other. We always used to go to the beach and hang out or even celebrate our wins but that night, it felt different.” Toren wrings her hands together in her lap. I keep my breathing even and force myself to remain calm as Caspian recites the worst night of my life. “Masen was drunk. I think we all were except for you and Kenna. When Mase started going on about us making a pact…”
“What pact?” she asks, her face is contorted in confusion, but I’m not buying the fucking act she is selling. She’s a Kellar and those vile cocksuckers would sell their body to make a buck.
“He wanted the five of us to make a pact that we would always be close and remain family forever. He wanted us to promise to make yours and Kenna’s first year of college to be something to remember.” I snort at his choice of words, earning a glare from them both. “Anyway, we all agreed and made the stupid fucking pact. We all started drinking heavily when the rest of the team arrived, everything was fine until it wasn’t.” He takes a shuddering breath before continuing. “You, Mase, Kenna and Kellan left.”
“Why?” she breathes out. She’s taut with tension as she hangs onto his every word.
“Kenna was wasted, so were you, but none of us knew. We had no fucking idea you were drunk or we would never have let you…” He clamps his mouth closed and scrubs a hand down his face, trying to tamper his anger.
Toren’s face scrunches. “What do you mean I was drunk?” She darts her gaze from him to me and then back again, clearly stunned by his revelation. But I saw the look in her eyes, she was genuinely confused. “Cas, you know I don’t drink like that unless we are home. I never get drunk in public. Jesus, I have only been drunk three times!” She reaches up and pulls her necklace from her shirt. I try to get a good look at it but I can’t see it clearly. Her lips begin to move as she recites something silently. I find myself being pissed off that I don’t know what she is saying.
“You were, Toren!” he roars. She jerks back in her seat at his outburst and yelps in pain before quickly biting down on her lip. Cas takes a few heaving breaths before he speaks again. “You all left the party. I thought nothing of it because I knew you would be the one driving everyone back to your house. I trusted you.”
Tears gather in her eyes as she stares at Caspian, her bottom lip begins to tremble. “What happened, Cas? What the fuck did I do?” she screams as the tears begin to roll down her cheeks. My eyes narrow as I note her every reaction.
“You lost control, you crashed into another car?—”
I cut Cas off before he can reveal too much. “You didn’t just kill your best friend that night.” She swings her gaze to me. Her eyes fill with horror, her mouth pops open but no sound escapes as tears continue to cascade down her face. “You killed both of mine as well. Miles and Neave were good fucking guys and didn’t deserve to go out the way they did.” Venom laces each of my words.
She shakes her head, her hand comes up and covers her mouth. “No, I wouldn’t have?—”
“Oh, but you did. You ploughed into them when you lost control. You killed innocent people that night.” A sob tears out of her, then she clutches her side in pain but she can’t stop the screams from tearing out of her as she breaks down in front of me. She tries gasping for air but can’t control herself enough to drag in enough oxygen, and I’ll be damned if I fucking help the cunt. She deserves to suffer.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
TOREN
I hear screaming. It takes me a minute to realize the sounds are coming from myself. Pain barrels through me like an inferno. Finding out Kenna had died broke my heart, but knowing thatIam the cause for her life being cut short has self-loathing and disgust rolling through me. I didn’t just end her life, I stole two boys' lives that night. Bile rushes up my throat and I begin to gag.
“Down the hall, first on your right,” Xaden says, in a tone laced with hatred. I push to my feet ignoring the searing pain from my injuries as I rush out of the room toward the bathroom. The physical pain I feel is nothing compared to the pain blooming inside me over my actions of that night. I make it to the toilet just in time to drop to my knees and empty the contents of my stomach. I don’t stop retching until I have nothing left inside me. The second I stop throwing up the intense ache over what I just learned slams into me with renewed strength.
I flush the toilet and try to stand but my legs give out as an anguished cry escapes me. I crumple to the floor in a heap and stop trying to ward off the pain that is wanting to consume me. I deserve to feel every ounce of it after what I did.
I killed my best friend…
