Page 109 of Stay Toxic

My next step was to make it to where they couldn’t find a job in DFW. Then, when that was exhausted, they couldn’t find anything in Texas.

Because I had Lev make them both unemployable.

They would have a laundry list of issues follow them wherever they went.

I was watching the show, and knew the moment that Rupert stood up that there was about to be trouble.

I stood up, too, almost as if I fully expected to stop what was about to happen.

But the chair went flying anyway.

Right at Brecken.

One second she was in her chair, eating a celery stick, and the next the chair hit her directly in the face.

It was chaos after that.

Multiple people surrounded Brecken on the ground, and a few went to Rupert to detain him.

Luckily Gabriel showed that he wasn’t completely stupid because he was one of the ones that helped detain Rupert.

But that sneer on his face was enough to sit with me for the rest of my life.

As if he was happy that it’d happened.

I was running out of my office one second and on the phone with Cayden in the next.

“Where are you?” I asked.

I was fifteen minutes from the school, and that was if traffic cooperated.

“Waiting for douchebag to get out of his meeting, why?” he asked.

“Something happened,” I said. “Brecken’s ex just threw a chair at her, hit her right in the face. She went down.”

I passed my sisters in the hallway as I sprinted past, and they were screaming questions at me, but I didn’t stay. I did scream at them as I left, though.

“Go to my office. Keep me updated on everything that happens on that computer screen!” I yelled.

“What’s he look like?” Cayden asked.

I explained as I slid into my car and sped out of my driveway.

The gate was luckily opened way before I got there, and I was accelerating down the road seconds after that.

“If I see him come out not in handcuffs, I’ll handle it,” he said.

“I don’t want him in handcuffs,” I snarled.

“He’s getting them,” Cayden mused. “Lots of police activity already.”

Fuck.

“Fuck,” I repeated my thoughts. “Just make sure that he doesn’t drive off by himself.”

“I will,” Cayden said. “Maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll leave together.”

“Maybe we will.” I hung up.

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