“What did I do?”
“Claimed that girl.”
“No shit. Why the hell did I do that?” I ask, looking over at him.
“Fuck if I know. You care about her,” he states.
“I raped her,” I remind him.
“Don’t start that shit again. You did what you had to do,” he says, sounding pissed off.
“How could she want to be with me after that?” I ask, looking him in the eye. I wouldn’t want to be with me. I can’t picture her wanting it either.
“She knows what she wants, Patch. She knows what was forced.” I see her then, turning her head to look over at me. It’s like the fucking world stops spinning and there’s only the two of us.
Ban chuckles and stands from his seat, walking away. Anika comes toward me, the picture of fucking perfection. Her cell rings in her pocket, and she pulls it out on her way over to me.Her eyes narrow as she looks at the phone. That has me on my feet and moving toward her.
“What is it?”
“It’s Alan.”
“That screamin’ bitch?” I ask. She giggles a little and nods her head. I pull the phone from her hand and press the answer key.
“You tried to fuck me over. How did that go for you? Did you enjoy my new friends?” His words send heat coiling inside me.
“You did this?” I growl into the line.
“Did you enjoy it? I bet she hates you now,” Alan says into the line.
“I’m gonna rip your fuckin’ throat out.”
“I have people backing me up. I paid good money for it, too. I don’t think you’ll get anywhere near me,” Alan says, making my skin crawl. Anika just stands there watching, listening to the one-sided conversation, unsure of what’s going on, and that’s exactly how it needs to be.
“Is that right? Well, let me tell you somethin’, pretty boy. Your time is comin’. You can’t hide behind them forever.”
“What’s going on?” Anika asks.
“That voice. It’s so fucking sweet, isn’t it? It was when she would scream my name too,” Alan says, pissing me off further. My hand tightens around the phone, my muscles coiling.
“You’re a dead man.” With that, I pull the phone away from my ear and press the end button before throwing it against the wall.A few girls jump, hearing it hit, before I turn and storm to my room.
I slam the door and pace the floor, trying to figure out how he plays into all this. He set this up? Why? How? What’s the point of this? Was he pissed about that night I was with her? That she didn’t take his ass back?
The door slowly opens, but I’m so full of Ban right now that I can’t deal with her. I don’t want to hurt her.
“What happened?”
“I need you to go back out there,” I tell her as I continue to pace.
“Patch, what did he say?”
“I mean it, Anika! My fuse is too fuckin’ short right now!” I roar louder this time. There’s silence for a long few seconds. Silence that eats away at me.
Then I feel her hands on my back. I tense before turning to face her. She’s standing there naked. Wearing nothing. She stripped out of all her clothes, and now she’s bared to me.
“What the fuck are you doin’?”
“What we both need.”
