Page 294 of Shadowman
Hancock carefully brings his fingers to the collar. “Can you get it off?”
“I think you need to be putting thingson, not taking them off,” Dash teases, fiddling with the back of his collar.
“I told you, if you don’t wanna look at my ass, you’ll need to find me some pants,” Hancock gripes.
“Hang on…” Ren mutters while Luthor comes to me, fighting to get the collar off gently. “So Trevel didn’t tell you he talked to Lex?”
I swallow a mouthful of nothing that feels like gravel. “No…”
I’m shivering all over, confusion working through my muscles.
“That’s fucked up.” Ren shakes his head. “I told you he was a fuckface.”
“Ren…” Luthor scolds, finally getting the collar off of me.
“Fuck that,” Ren growls. “He let you think we were dead!”
I blink at him, then at Luthor, with my heart splintering all over again.
“When did you… talk to him…?” I ask for the information again, desperate not to believe it.
No… He wouldn’t do that to me.
Trevel wouldn’t…
“It’s been, like, a week, fam,” Luthor replies, with unease, and something else on his face…
Pity. He feels sorry for me. Because my boyfriend is a lying sociopath.
My world is collapsing all around me,everythingI’ve been hanging onto for months blowing up in my hands like dynamite. And I’m fuckingbleeding.
“He wouldn’t…” I whisper, bending at the waist. “Why?? Why would he do that?”
“Because he’s not good for you, Byron.” Ren rubs my shoulder. “I’ve been telling you this since day one. He’s a fucking snake.”
“Guys, we have to go,” Dash mutters. “Kemper, Rook, and Joy are out there. We just have to try to get to them.”
“I can’t… breathe…” I shudder.
Everything hurts.It fucking kills.
This betrayal is… goddamnexcruciating.
“Byron…?” the smooth voice, with that accent, calls from the doorway, and I cringe.
The way he says my name… Jesus, I fell so hard for it.
I barely even noticed how effortlessly he became my world.
But he’s just another liar.
Flinging upright, I turn to find Trevel standing at the entrance of the room. But I’m already stalking to him, vision doused in red.Everymuscle in my body is woven tight with the agonizing fury of his deception. I feel so fucking stupid, and it’s making me so muchangrier. Rage clouds my vision until I can’t see straight.
Ren growls, “Look who it is… FuckingAro.” He folds his arms over his chest, gaze narrowed. “That’s the bad guy fromTwilight, in case you didn’t know.”
“Babe.” Luthor smacks his arm. “Not now…”
I’m not paying attention. I’m up in Trevel’s face in an instant. Zero fucks given that he’s taller than me.I’m going to lay him out.
