Page 149 of Twisted Collide

I close my eyes, and there it is again.

The sound of the thud.

The blood.

All the blood.

My breathing feels choppy, and I pull in large gulps of air.

“You okay, man?” someone says beside me. “Sin?”

I open my eyes. Mason is there, and Hudson is barreling over in my direction.

Behind him is Aiden, Cassidy in tow.

Hudson’s face looks red with rage. “What happened to our girl?”

“She fell.”

“How the fuck did she fall in a parking lot, Sin?” he practically growls.

“She lost her balance. She was walking on the ledge. It wasn’t that high, only about two feet off the ground, but she hit her head on a loose piece of concrete.” Guilt makes my tongue heavy, but what else can I say? It’s the truth; she lost her balance. She did something stupid and lost her balance.

You let her fall. It’s all your fault.

It’s always your fault.

Molly is the next to enter the room. Her eyes look red-rimmed like she might have been crying. She throws her arms around my neck when she sees me. “Is she okay?”

I shake my head. “I don’t know. I haven’t heard anything yet.”

Molly is the closest thing to a friend as Hellfire has.

She had you.

I had no choice. With my uncle blackmailing me, I can’t be with her. If I had reached out when she asked, she would have thoughtthere was hope for us, but between my uncle and her father, we were over before we even started.

“There’s no news at all?” Hudson asks.

I shake my head. “Nothing.”

I sit back down in the cold metal chair. I’m happy to have my friends here, but they don’t even know the half of my relationship with her.

“Why were you with Josie?” Hudson finally asks. “Alone in the parking lot?”

He eyes me in a way that makes me uncomfortable. Hudson is usually the playful one out of the bunch, but right now, his demeanor is anything but playful.

He thinks I hurt her.

And he is definitely not wrong in a sense.

“What are you implying?” Molly steps up into his space. Eyes colder than ice.

“Mind your business, pest.”

I stand from the chair, moving Molly out of the way, getting up in Hudson’s face. “Do not speak to my sister like that.”

“Enough!” I look to my left to see Robert approaching us.

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