The video goes on and on until my phone is ripped out of my hand and thrown across my room, splintering against the wall into a hundred little pieces. “Someone is going to fucking pay for that,” Dad promises before storming out of my bedroom.
I storm out right behind him, not giving a shit that I’m not dressed and head straight for the entryway table.
I grab the keys to the old pick up and reach for the door when Noah grabs my arm, pulling me back. “Where the fuck do you think you’re going?”
“I’m fucking dealing with this, that’s what,” I tell him. “Either come with me or not, but whether or not you’re by my side, I’m going to fucking end this. She’s gone too far.”
Noah pulls the keys out of my hand and tosses them back on the table. “Fine,” he says. “But there’s no way in hell you’re driving. Go get some proper clothes on and I’ll meet you out front.”
Thirty seconds later, I’m out the door, ready to knock some fucking heads together.
Chapter 20
I storm through the school just moments after the first bell sounded with Noah right by my side. We sat in the car in absolute silence as he raced towards the school. I resisted telling him to hurry it up and drive as though he was on a racetrack while he resisted asking me about my, ‘I have more important things going on right now’ comment.
Students still linger in the halls, but the majority of them are already in homeroom. The lingering ones though, they get one look at the expression on my face, most likely having already seen the video, they take in the deathly fury radiating out of Noah and they scram like little bitches. The cuts and bruises covering me, only serving to help my cause.
Nobody wants to be around for this. There was the Spencer drama a few weeks ago and compared to this shit, that was just child’s play. People are more than happy to sit around and enjoy that show, but this…this is fucking war.
This was taking a direct hit against their queen, trying to take me down. Every last person who walks these halls knows that if they even accidentally stand in my way right now, they’ll be going down right alongside the bitch who dared wrong me.
Within seconds of us walking through the doors of Haven Falls Private, the hallways are a fucking ghost town.
“Game face,” Noah reminds me in a low murmur, assuming that my emotions will get the best of me and I’ll fuck it all up. If only he knew about the baby mumma drama, he probably wouldn’t bother with the reminder. My game face has been on since dad walked through my bedroom door this morning.
I don’t respond, but it’s not like he was expecting me to.
“You ready for this?” he questions with a slight hesitance in his tone, though anyone listening in right now would never be able to detect it.
“Try and fucking stop me, Noah,” I warn. “I’m seeing this through.”
His chin lowers, and again, no one but me would be able to decipher it. It’s not only his ‘go ahead,’ but it’s his way of telling me to take point. This guy beside me right now, this isn’t Noah Cage, my boyfriend and the guy who puts up with me teasing him about pink dildoes in his bedside table. This is Noah Fucking Cage, King of Haven Falls, Pack Leader and most feared badass around.
And that right there was the fucking King handing the reigns to his Queen.
The only thing that feels wrong about this is not having Tully and Rivers here with us. Without a doubt, they would know what’s going on. I’m sure I scrolled past a shitload of texts from Tully before looking at the video this morning, but I’ll call her later. Hell, I’m already out of my prison so I may as well head straight to the hospital and spend the day with her after this.
Rivers though, I can’t possibly understand why he isn’t here right now. That isn’t how we work. When a member of our pack needs something, we run. That’s just how it is, how it’s always going to be, so unless he’s in shit of his own, I couldn’t even begin to imagine what he could be doing right now. I have a feeling Noah will have words with him about this later though.
Those two just haven’t been the same lately and it’s really tearing at me. I get the fight in the hospital; both their emotions were riding high and I can imagine that Noah’s still a bit pissed about Rivers breaking Tully’s heart despite the fact that he says otherwise. Now’s not the time to dwell on it though, I’m here to do a job and a damn good one at that.