I chew on my lip as the phone rings in my ear, my worry of Ace consuming me, but I try to control all the emotions quaking through me.
“This is a surprise.” Ryan says immediately when answering the phone.
“Yeah, I wasn’t thrilled to have called you to be honest.” My tone is bitter and cold. “We had a problem tonight and I need information from you.”
“What kind of problem?”He growls.
“Answer my question first.” I hear him sigh with annoyance through the phone, causing my lip to curl with a smile. “Do I have a brother?”
The phone goes silent. Nothing. You’ve got to me fucking me right now.My patience is already thin, I don’t have enough in me to deal with this.
“Why do you ask?” His voice cracks with anticipation.
“Answer Me!” The words hiss from my tongue with venom; if he was here they would have struck him dead.
“He’s dead Emma. You had a twin but he died at childbirth. Why do you ask?”
A twin. Is that the void I have always felt, Pop never told me, no one told me I was a twin. The words snap out of my mouth. “He’s not dead.”
“Impossible.” Ryan spits. “Nothing’s impossible.” I respond with venomous annoyance. “Caz betrayed Ace and now I think he’s been working with my brother, whoever that is.” This is all getting so confusing. I don’t know what to think anymore. It amazes me how many secrets people keep, honestly.
“Where is Ace? Let me talk with him.” He orders me. And that has me annoyed too so of course once again I spit my words out. “Call him, he’s disappeared.”
“Fuck.” He roars. “Emma, stay out of his way.”
“Yes, I’ve been told, but I can’t be left in the dark like this Ryan.” I’m not hurt he left; I understand needing a minute alone to process something if that’s even what he is doing. The furious rage that was feeding from his body was not a rage of hurt, it was rage of betrayal and a dangerous anger, so I truly feel in my heart he is acting on that, and that, is what scares me.
“It would not be a good idea for me to call him Emma. Let him do what he needs to do and stay out of his way.”
“Yeah, I hear you.” But I don’t. I hang up and pull myself from the counter I was leaning against processing the actions that have unraveled. It’s time to pay daddy a little visit.
I make my way to the Chambers and low and behold, Bearemerges from the shadows. “Can you stop doing that?” I ask with annoyance in my tone.
“What?”
“Hiding in the dark being all creepy and shit.”
He chuckles. “I could be worse.”
I roll my eyes. “Are you going to follow me down to see my father or will you let me be a big girl and do it on my own.”
He cocks a brow and holds his gaze on me for a minute. “Ace might enjoy your bratty shit, but I don’t.”
“Oh, I’m not being a brat.” I smirk.
“I’ll be going with you everywhere you go; get used to it.”
My lip curls into a snarl. Right now, I don’t like Bear. He’s the reason I haven’t gone out and looked for Ace yet. He is the reason I let Ace walk away in the first place. I’ve been on my own my whole life, I don’t need him following me around like a fucking puppy dog.
I turn away from him and continue to make my way to the chambers and he trails behind me.
When I open the door to the room my father is in, my eyes immediately fall on his pale face as his eyes slowly lift open, pulling a smile to my lips. “How you feeling?” I tease.
He growls but says nothing.
“I think we have a lot to talk about.” I grab the long leather whip; you know the ones they use in those old western days, where they snap them leaving that deafening crack; Yeah, this is perfect.
With the handle held in my hand, the tail drags the floor as I walk in front of my father, hiking my ass up on the table in front of him. I rest my hands in my crossed legged lap and shoot daggers at my father with a sinful smile. “So, I guess I should start by saying, I know you tried to kill mom.”
