Chapter 9

CHAPTER 9

Knox

J ust hearing that punk’s name makes my vision blur with red. That’s the little shit who keeps breaking my sister’s heart. The one she promised she’d stay away from. Not only does he keep hurting her, but his punk ass is trouble and I don’t want him dragging her into his mess. She’d told me she was completely over him, so why the fuck was she at this party? Unless, maybe she didn’t know he was going to be there and I’m diving headfirst to the wrong conclusion.

“Did you know he was going to be at that party, Myrah?”

“Yes,” she says, her cheeks turning pink. Those pretty blue eyes of hers filling with guilt. Fuck me. She still has the damn hots for him. He probably called her up, claiming some bullshit excuse for why she hasn’t heard from him for the last three months, and she forgave his ass and went running back. So, what was I? The consolation prize. She was horny, the cop had spoiled her fun, and my timing just happened to be right.

“So, you knew he’d be there, and yet, you still showed your little ass at the place?” The jealousy is burning up my vocal cords, making me sound like I belong locked behind these bars. The way I’m feeling toward that little punk, it’s probably a good thing I am.

“Yes, but…I…” She’s stuttering through, struggling to find an excuse. Means my hunch is correct. She’s not over the piece of shit. “I wasn’t going to get back together with him, Knox. I…um…I was just…last night was the last time.”

What the fuck does that mean? Last time? For fucking what? Did something happen between them?

“The fuck were you planning to do? Fuck him for old time’s sake?” I know I’m being an ass and need to reel my shit in, but I can’t. Never wanted to hurt someone so badly in my life. But Zig better hope he never ends up in here with me because I’ll be issuing him a death sentence far worse than a lethal injection.

She doesn’t even have to give me the answer. Her eyes are saying it all. She was going to sleep with him. And probably would’ve had the officer not shown up and spoiled their fun. For the first time, I want to thank a damn cop. Because if she ended up in Zig’s bed, he’d just hurt her again.

“I wasn’t thinking right.” She shakes her head. “But I pushed him off. I stopped him before he finished…”

Before he finished? Finished what? Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Heat is blazing down my spine. I need to know what exactly the dipshit did to my sister. How far she let things get. The question is on the tip of my tongue when the fucking hairs on my neck stand up and I get the sense I’m being watched. I quickly hit end on the call but when I look up, I realize I’m too late. Officer Burbank is standing on the other side of my cell with a nasty sneer on his face.

“Hand it over, Raid.”

I’m tempted to tell him over my dead body but he’s the one with the gun and I know he won’t have a problem using it and then pull some bullshit self-defense claim. I quickly look down, going into settings and resetting the phone back to factory mode before I stand and walk over to the bars. There’s no way I’m letting this jackhole get a look at my pretty girl.

“You’re fucked now, Raid.” His evil smirk makes me wish we were on equal footing and I could punch his lights out. “You’ve just lost yourself phone privileges for a year.”

My hands grip the bars, wanting to pull them apart and then pull the motherfucker apart limb by fucking limb. If it were any other prisoner, they’d confiscate the thing and slap their hand, warning them not to get caught with contraband again. Me—I’m known as the man who tried to murder two innocent cops, completely unprovoked, so they don’t show me an inch of mercy. And all I can fucking do is eat shit and bite my tongue, otherwise, I won’t just lose phone privileges, I’ll lose visitation too.

He turns and I watch him stroll down to the very last cell on the block. To a fucker they just brought in named Bugano, who I’ve been told is underworld slime. Part of the mob or some shit. Burbank passes the phone through the slot to the guy and then turns back and casts me another evil smirk. Motherfucker is another dirty fucking pig. Starting to think there are few clean cops left in the entire system. If any.