“We’re pathetic.”
“No. Killian is.”
Bile creeps back up my throat, and I shake my hands out from my sides trying to calm my nerves. Adrenaline pumps through me.
“Hunter, if he’s in there with her I don’t know what I’ll do. I’m not sure my heart can take it.”
“Liri?” I flash my gaze over at Liam. He’s strolling out of the house with some chick I have seen around but don’t know the name of.
“Liam, you owe me so just be straight with me. Is Killian in there with Jackie?”
“Aw hell, Liri.” He stares at his feet, and his date stares back and forth between us.
“Killian Hendrix?”
“Yeah.”
The nameless hoochie on Liam’s arm shrugs. “He was going upstairs with her about ten minutes ago.”
I fall to my knees, and the world starts to spin. My worst nightmare is coming true.
“Shit,” I hear Liam mutter and him and Hunter both struggle to pull me to my feet.
Fat tears well up in my eyes so thick they blind me, but my rage carries my feet forward. Liam and Hunter are both calling out my name and running after me, but I’m walking so fast I’m practically flying through the front door and up the stairs.
“Liri, stop.”
“Come on, Liri, just wait.”
“Don’t go up those stairs.”
My tears splatter onto my shoes like raindrops. They might as well be blood; my heart is being ripped out of my chest. Killian is up here with the person I hate most in the world. How could he do this to me? To us?
I don’t bother knocking, I start flinging doors open.
“Hey!” Some dude shouts and pulls covers up on his naked ass.
“Liri, stop,” Liam catches up to me first.
I have my hand on a knob about to twist it. My heart is in a blender. “Why? I bet you get off on this shit. You get to see him get his. Wouldn’t you want to know if the person you love is with the person you hate? No matter the cost. No matter the pain.” My chest heaves as another sob rips through me.
“You think I want to see you get hurt? I don’t want this for you. I wouldn’t even wish it on him.”
Chills fan up and down my arms and bile creeps up my throat. “I don’t know, Liam. I don’t know anything anymore.”
“Don’t do it. Let me find him and tell him you’re here.”
“He’s with her. I can’t…I need to…I have to, Liam. I have to see it to believe it. To get closure.” I can still feel Killian’s bruises on my thighs. His teeth on my neck but he’s not mine anymore. Our fire will never burn again if he’s with her.
I open the door and my heart drops to my feet. Killian is sitting on the edge of the bed and Jackie is on her knees between his legs going down on him. I don’t feel in control of my body. I push into the room as Liam tries to drag me back, but he can’t get a grip on me. I’m too fast. Too angry. Too wild. I feel crazy with rage. Ready to kill. Killian’s eyes meet mine—cold…emotionless. I grab Jackie by a fistful of her hair and jerk her head back as Liam’s arms go around my waist.
“Ow,” she howls, and I pull harder hoping to rip it out.
“You fucking cunt!” I punch her right between the eyes when she peers up to see who has her. I can’t breathe. I feel like it’s the end of days, and the world is crumbling all around me. I glower at Killian and he smirks at me. He’s getting pleasure from my pain. A sob tears through me, and I’m just done. I push Jackie sideways and she catches herself on the nightstand.
“You’re a real bastard,” Hunter spits from the doorway
Liam wraps his arms tighter around me when Killian laughs.