Page 57 of Shattered

“We’re just worried about you,” Macy says with a frown.

“Well, stop.”

Juliet’s eyes narrow on me, and she grabs my arm, yanking up my sleeve. Her eyes nearly pop out of her head.

“Jesus fuck, Lila!” she snaps.

I shake her off. “Piss off.”

“What did Asher do to you?” Macy growls. “Lila, we can talk to Edgar. He can help you!”

It’s the last straw before I fucking snap.

“Would you all LEAVE ME ALONE!? I like rough sex! We’re not all broken like you, Mace.”

I regret the words as soon as they’re out of my mouth, and I see the hurt flash in her eyes.

“Mace…”

“No,” she says softly. She opens her mouth to say more, but instead, she turns on her heels and leaves. When the door slams behind her to the courtyard, Juliet turns on me.

“That… was not fucking cool,” she barks.

As Juliet storms out to the courtyard, I turn and head for the back door, feeling defeated and alone.

Chapter 20

Asher

Aknock on my bedroom door wakes me, and the first thing I register is that my leg kills. It hasn’t hurt this bad since recovery, so I know I’m fucked.

“Dude, wake the fuck up!” Bane snaps in my doorway, wincing.

I sit up in bed, clutching my leg beneath my blankets, out of Bane’s sight.

“What!?” I snap.

“I have a group of six in an hour, and I feel like garbage. Can you take them?”

“What? No! Your appointments, figure it out.”

“Dude, I have a splitting headache and feel like I’m going to hurl. Please. I’m not doing them, and I can’t cancel six appointments on day two.”

No, he’s right, he can’t. And if he won’t do them… fuck.

“What are they getting?”

“Nothing custom, just shit they found on the internet, all small. Shouldn’t take more than a couple hours.”

“Fine. But you fucking owe me.”

Once he takes off, I swing my legs around to the side of the bed. The smallest amount of pressure has my leg throbbing, and I have to clutch it and hiss through the pain.

“Fuck…”

Waking up in Sunshine’s bed yesterday was so much better than this. I spent three fucking hours last night debating whether to call her or not and then another hour trying to convince myself that I only wanted to call her so I could fuck her.

I grab my pain meds from my night table and down them dry, with an extra one for good measure. It usually takes about half an hour for the drugs to kick in, and I don’t have that time to waste this morning.

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