“Thank God,” I whispered.
That was when I heard Theresa’s voice. “You know what we should do? We should mow all of them down. Every single one of them. Those guys that took me. The guys here. We should burn it all to the ground. Fuck them.”
My eyes widened at her words, and I waited for Julia’s response.
“Yeah, fuck them. And if that’s what you want to do? Count me in.”
Everything shut down. The lights. The sounds around me. Their voices. The fucking world. The second she spat out those words, I slowly backed down the hallway. Of course, I couldn’t trust her. Of course, she was never on my side. She may not have been a plant, but her and her sister fully and completely believed that we were no better than Bullet. And that wasn’t flying with me. If Julia thought for one god damn second that her and that sister of hers would be protected by us while they attempted to destroy us from the inside out, then they had another thing coming.
I turned and strode back down the hallway, doing my best not to swallow my tongue in the process.
Would I tell the guys what I heard? No. We needed to focus. We needed all hands on deck until we could get through tomorrow night. But I was going to find a way to get the sisters back to their own place before tomorrow night. Before we all went into battle, we’d get those girls home and out of our fucking hair for good.
Because the last thing I wanted was to fight with them as well in order to get to the root of the issue we had yet to resolve.
14
JULIA
“Oh, my God,” I groaned as I flopped down onto the couch. “I’m absolutely stuffed.”
Tee burped as she pulled a blanket over our tired bodies. “I could sleep for days after that meal.”
I rubbed my belly. “It was good though, wasn’t it?”
“You think they’d tell us what’s in that marinade they put on those things?”
I giggled as I slid my feet beneath her butt. “I’m sure I could pry it out of one of them.”
“You mean, like Fangs?”
I swatted at her. “Can it, you.”
“Hey,” she said as she turned on the television, “I’m just commenting on what I see.”
My cheeks grew hot. “Well, unsee it.”
“Unsee it, like I’m not seeing you blush right now?”
I shot her a look. “Cool it, Nancy Grace.”
She barked with laughter, and it was the most amazing sound I’d ever heard. With our legs tangled together and our bodies sharing an oversized blanket, I couldn’t stop staring at her. Those two weeks might as well have been two fucking decades because she looked so different. Her eyes had aged. Her lips downturned a bit more than usual. Sometimes, when I moved a funny way, she winced.
I had a feeling that neither of us would ever be the same after this.
Then, my sister’s voice cracked as she spoke. “Do you think we can trust these guys?”
Tee’s voice was so soft that I almost didn’t hear her. But when her words finally registered, I didn’t hesitate to respond. “Right now, they are our best shot. But we’ll see how that evolves one day at a time, okay?”
My sister nodded softly, but it felt like there was more lingering up in her head. Her gaze looked preoccupied elsewhere, despite the television landing on one of her favorite sitcoms, Frasier.
“I didn’t even know they played Frasier on television anymore,” I murmured.
Tee sighed. “It’s Netflix. This is Netflix.”
I squinted my eyes and stared at the television. “So, I guess I’m not the only one who’s distracted.”
“Huh?”
