“Where’s Ronan?” Xander asks.
“He’s stoned,” Aiden says. “I’m going to fuck up his face if he complains that we’re keeping him out.”
“He wants to be kept out.” I place a hand in my pocket to prevent it from curling into a fist. I’ve been planning for this moment since last night. Since I saw the fear in Silver’s eyes as she dashed out in see-through clothes. She’s not the type who goes out unprepared, which means she was scared about her parents’ careers more than she showed. The fact that that bastard Adam has gotten under her skin this way makes me want to eradicate him from this world.
No one gets to toy with her under my watch.
That game is mine and Silver’s alone. No outsiders are allowed.
“Astor wants to be left out?” Aiden raises a brow. “Are we talking about the same person?”
“He puts on a façade.” I throw Aiden a condescending glance. “If you weren’t so self-centred, you would’ve noticed it.”
“Hashtag burn.” Xander grins. Aiden and I never go at each other’s throats — at least, not in front of the others. So whenever that happens, Xander and Ronan act like monkeys who’ve found a banana.
“I told you it’s over with Queens. I ended it officially in front of Jonathan.” Aiden levels me with his own condescension. “Stop being a petty little bitch.”
Before we met here, Aiden told me over the phone that it was all over.
He’s no longer engaged to Silver.
She’ll also speak to her father about it soon.
Despite the relief I feel, it’s not enough. It’s as if I can’t get the thought of her engaged to someone else out of my head. Despite knowing it was fake all along, she was still someone else’s fiancée.
Not mine. His.
The part I’m most pissed off about is the fact she’ll never be my fiancée. She’ll never be fully mine no matter how much I own her.
Then she had to be secretive about that fucker Adam. She’s slowly but surely pushing me out of her life, and soon enough, I’ll only be a fling in her past.
Silver will eventually choose her parents’ image and hers. I’ve never belonged in that picture-perfect frame.
Maybe that’s what makes me feel even more pissed off than I should be about this whole fucking mess.
“Whoa, Captain.” Xander clutches me by the shoulder. “Now you get Silver all to yourself, huh?”
“Which can’t be said about your case.” Aiden smirks at him.
Xander’s grin falls and he flips him off. They both think they can keep secrets from me, but I’ve already figured it out. I’m curious to see how Xander will handle it.
“Here he comes,” I whisper as Adam stumbles from the pub. It takes him a lot of swaying to reach his car.
He doesn’t see us since we’re hidden in the blind spot near the wall. Adam curses under his breath when he’s unable to find his keys.
Aiden’s shoulders tense and his expression blackens. Ever since he confirmed that Adam was the one who pushed Elsa in the pool, he’s been out for blood. Almost like me.
Xander just joined because he likes to punch things lately.
No one here wants to fuck up that arsehole more than me. He didn’t only terrorise Silver, but he also thought he could have her.
He thought he could own what’s fucking mine.
Aiden goes first, but he doesn’t bother with the ski mask. He punches Adam straight in the face.
Adam wails like a schoolgirl, clutching his nose.