“You’ve just made the biggest mistake of your life, Killian,” I whisper as Jackie sneers at me.
“He wants me not you, bitch.”
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“Good. You can have him. I don’t want him anymore.” I glance back at him one last time, and I feel so numb. The man I loved wouldn’t have taken things this far. Liam gives me an expression full of such pity as he lets me go. “There. Now you’re both miserable assholes,” I tell him, and I stomp out the door past Hunter and push my way through the crowd forming in the hallway. I see Woodrow and Hayley staring at me as I jog down the stairs gawking at me with that same pity Liam did. Ben and Cassidy are here too. Good. They can all know what a piece of shit Killian is. I leave out the front door and don’t turn back. There’s nothing for me in that house but poison.
“Liri,” Killian calls my name, but I can’t turn around. Not this time.
“Stay away from her,” I hear Hunter yell at him.
“Back the fuck up before I put your other arm in a sling, man.”
I keep walking, but I hear his footsteps on the sidewalk behind me, and the smell of his cologne wraps around me at the same time he grabs me from behind. “No!” I scream. “No, Killian. Not this time. You can’t apologize or fuck your way out of this.” My tears start, and I feel like I can’t catch my breath. “Don’t you fucking touch me ever again.” The world spins so fast, and I feel like I’m nothing but a toy to him. A pretty little doll he plays with when he’s bored. But not anymore. This stops now.
We’re over.
There is no longer an us.
If I could snap my fingers and disappear I would.
His hands drop. “You lied to me,” he says, and I spin around.
“I never fucking cheated on you, Killian. You were just with someone else. And not just anyone but the one person I hate more than anything. I hate you. I hate her. I hope your dick fucking rots off. I’m not a cheater. I didn’t cheat but you did. I can’t forgive that.”
“Yes, you did, Liri. You fucked around with Hunter while I was in the hospital. Jackie told me all about it. And he admitted it to me on the phone earlier.”
“Jackie.” I laugh like a crazy person. Right now I feel insane. “And you believed her so easily.” Hunter appears guilty behind Killian. “Did you tell Killian I cheated?” His gaze darts to the ground. “Perfect. I thought you were my friend.”
“I was doing you a favor. You think he cares about you? You’re nothing but another girl in the long line he’s fucked. That’s it. He doesn’t deserve you, Liri. He never did.”
“Neither do you.” I shake my head and start walking backwards. “Take a good look, Killian. This is the last time you’ll see me. I can’t believe you let her fucking put her mouth on you. You traded all we had for two minutes of nothing with that whore. Two minutes for everything. Two minutes for me. You’re really fucking cheap just like her.”
He shrugs. “I don’t know what we had. I can’t remember you.”
“Good. Forget the past few weeks too. Forget every single time I let you between my legs.” I turn my back on him and walk into the street. I grip my hair and let out a scream “Fuuuccck! Fucking fuck you, Killian Hendrix. Fuck you right in the ass with a prickly cactus. I hate you. I hate you so fucking much.” I flip him off with both fingers.
Killian stares through me with his dark eyes and says, “I told you I’d take you to Hell.”
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. “One day you’ll regret this, and it’s going to be too late. I gave you all of me over and over again. Through all your lies I loved you. But not now and never again. You’ll never touch me again. I’d rather cut out my heart. Oh, that’s right you already did the job for me.”
Liam comes up to me as I sink to my butt in the middle of the street and cry in the slushy snow. Violent sobs wrack through my chest. “Liri, let me take you home.”
“Home.” I wipe away my tears. I laugh. “I don’t have a home. I don’t have anything if you haven’t noticed.”
“Wherever you want to go, I’ll drive you. Just tell me where. Come on. Like you said I owe you.”
“Fine.” I sniffle. I hold my hands up to him and he helps me to my feet being careful of my injured hand.
Before we make it to his car I have to stop and puke in the bushes. Liam holds my hair back but keeps his distance.
“Are you okay?”
I shake my head and wipe my mouth with the back of my hand. I’ll never be okay again.
I don’t know where Hunter went or Killian. I don’t care. They can both kiss my ass.
Liam hands me a clean t-shirt from the backseat of his car where he has a laundry basket.