Page 74 of Ruin

His phone rings again, and I hear him cuss to himself.

“What?” he snaps, and the other person on the phone is loud enough to hear what they are saying.

“Where the fuck are you?”

“The same place I told you I was when you first called me. We're leaving here in about twenty minutes, and then I’m going to take her wherever she wants to go.”

“Why do you have to take her?” I hear the voice on the other end of the phone.

“Because she doesn't have a fucking car, you asshole,” Declan snaps at them. I try to focus on the drawing on his chest, but it’s a little hard when you can hear them on the phone.

“Have you been in a hotel with her all night and didn’t even get lucky?” Another voice asks and they laugh.

“Oh, did someone wake up on the wrong side of the bed, or did Cain make you pull out of someone’s pussy, so you would do some work?” Declan laughs.

“Fuck you, D. Your fucking fault Cain is being an asshole to me.” The second voice snaps at him, and it only makes him laugh more. I don’t know his brothers well enough to know who’s voice is whose. I mean I’ve only been around them once.

“What did he make you do?” Declan asks.

“Wanted me to look up something on somebody. Somebody, you fucked over by the sounds of it. He’s pissed and definitely wants answers.”

“He’s always-”

“No, D, Cain is pissed like pissed, pissed.” Now this voice sounds a little more worried than the other two.

“Cain is always fucking pissed off, and it had to be done, so he can be pissed off with me all he wants. I don't care, even knowing he's annoyed with me I still would have done it.” No matter what his brothers are saying, Declan doesn’t care this Cain person is angry with him.

“What did you do?” one of them asks.

“Drop it. Is that the only reason you called me?” Declan moves his phone from the ear and looks at a message. “Where are you? I’ve got a message.”

“What's it say?”

“Anything can happen when you're not looking behind you.” Declan puts this phone back to his ear.

“What the hell does that mean?”

Yeah, what does that mean?

“If I knew what it meant, I would know who sent it. Did you call me to piss me off this morning?”

I press my lips together, hearing him with his brothers. They sound like they have a lot of fun together, they know how to laugh with each other.

“No, we called you to say we're staying here today, so when you've come back, we can hang out-”

“You know I have school-” Declan cuts them off, but one of them cuts him off, which makes me laugh.

“Which by the looks of it, you’re not going to because you're still there. Plus, we want to be here when Cain snaps at you.”

“Going to be so fucking funny. Little golden boy is going to get shouted at.” His brothers are winding him up now, I can hear the humor behind their words.

“And he can shout at me, and I'm still not going to regret what I did.” Declan snaps at them, and I hear the three of them laugh.

What did he do?

“Yeah, yeah. You know what Cain’s punishments are like. What's he going to make you do? Is he going to send you back there for a month?”

“He can send me back there. Everybody knows who I am now. Couple more scars won't hurt me.” Declan shakes his head, and I feel his hand moving up and down my thigh, as I continue to draw on his chest.

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