At this, she explodes in a loud laugh. “Oh my God.”
I laugh too before I ask, “Do you think I hurt him?”
She laughs again. “Probably.”
Frowning and looking up at the gray sky, I say, “I don’t know why I care.”
She sighs beside me. “He broke your heart, didn’t he?”
I swallow, blinking my eyes. “Yes.”
“Well then, he deserved it.”
At her fierce tone, I look back at her. “He pressed charges against me.”
“What?”
I nod, looking up at the sky again, the color of his eyes. “I mean, I did steal his car and tried to destroy it. And it was his most prized possession. He built it himself.”
“He did?”
“Yeah. I didn’t know it at the time.” I swallow again as something painful presses against my throat. “At the time, all I wanted to do was hurt him the way he hurt me and… stealing his car seemed like the best idea. Destroying something that he loved like he destroyed me. I don’t fault him for wanting to see me punished for it. I just…”
“What?” Wyn asks with concern in her eyes.
I sniffle, realizing that I’ve started to cry.
God, what an idiot.
Ashamed, I clench my eyes shut and fist my hands as I whisper, “I just wish that he had fought for me like he did for his car, you know? I just wish that I was important. To him.”
I wish that I was more than a stupid girl to him who fell in love and stole his car. I wish I was…
All my thoughts pause when I remember what he said just now.
I didn’t bring your brother that deal…
That deal.
What deal?
Chapter Six
Tempest was the one who told me.
That Reed had built his car himself.
She didn’t want to though.
She didn’t give me this piece of information for the longest time. Because she thought I had so much to deal with already. My heartbreak, rumors at school about the Thorne Princess falling for the Wild Mustang, her brothers’ enemy.
Everything happened publicly that night, didn’t it?
We fought at a party. I stole his car from that party. I didn’t show up for myowndance show.
I even got arrested; not publicly, but still.
So everyone at school knew everything and they all thought I was love-crazy. That whole month, they watched me like I was going to blow up any second.
