Page 26 of Chaos Kills

“You don’t know my cousin,” I deadpan.

“No shit. How psycho is he?”

Very.

When he needs to be.

Yet with Bay, I don’t see that coming out any time soon unless she continues this little tirade of betrayal and power. Obviously, Judah’s death doesn’t have a huge impact on him.

Or he has something else in mind.

Regardless, I’m not going to wait. He might have his own demons that I’ll keep on the back burner for her to figure out. But so do I.

“Call him off.”

“Now you want me to take orders from you?” I sneer back. “Go fuck yourself.”

“Leave this alone,” she orders. “I didn’t kill your brother.”

It’s the lie that shoves me over the edge. That she believes I’m that fucking stupid to take her word for it.

My Glock is presented in the next second as I aim it at her forehead and plead for my finger to just pull the fucking trigger already.

She used you.

She’s out to get everyone.

She’s here for no damn reason.

“Get the fuck out of my room,” I snarl, my voice almost demonic in nature as I flirt with the trigger. “Don’t ever mention him to me again.”

“Torin,” Bay says more softly. “You have to believe me?—”

“I don’t have to do shit. This was all a game. Every motherfucker you’ve been with poses a threat to me. You’ve always been under Wallace. You’ve been fucking him for fuck knows how long and lead me to believe it was over. That you didn’t want him anymore. But I know he’s there, Wildfire. I just didn’t want to accept the fact that you weren’t who I thought you were.”

“It’s not like that. Levi and I?—”

“I swear to God, Bay, I willkillyou. I will start a whole fucking war over this shit if you don’t fuck off me right now.”

She slowly rocks her head, and I see the briefest glint of those blue eyes overcast with unshed tears.

It’s not going to do anything to me.

My brother is fucking gone.

I’ve been sitting here for years like an idiot, waiting for him to show back up, and the reason he’s not is sitting in front of me.

She slowly pushes off my mattress and gets to the floor. My traitorous heart tugs with each step she takes, and it only drives me into a further state of animosity toward her.

“Bay.” She stops on a dime at the sound of her name but doesn’t turn around. “If I killed Wallace…what would you do?”

I see her body heave, drawing a deep inhale into her body when she answers me with the exhale. “I’d murder you. Slowly.”

Well…there goes that.

There would be no love lost if I stole from her. She’d flip on me without a second thought.

It may have taken her a few more seconds. Shit, it’s taken me days to wrap my head around all this. But she wouldn’t save me.

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