Page 4 of Conveniently Yours

I give him a shaky smile, hoping he’s right.

Axel opens the door, and Noah's standing there, his eyes wide and filled with anger. "The fuck, Scarlett?" he growls. "What the fuck were you thinking?"

"What?" I ask, my voice small. I've never done well with anger, especially not when being reprimanded.

"You fucking know what," he snaps. "And you?" he snarls, his gaze moving to Axel. "I fucking told you to stay the hell away from her."

I see Berna standing in the hall watching everything, all the while wearing Noah's tee. "A bit hypocritical, Noah, wouldn't you say?"

He lips thin, and he turns and glares at Berna. "Told you to get the fuck out. You wanted to fuck, I gave you what you wanted, it's now time to leave."

Oh my God. What an asshole. "Don't speak to her like that," I say, my voice louder and clearer than before. "God, Noah, why are you such an ass?"

Berna's already gone; she slams Noah's bedroom door. I hate that he's hurt my friend. Despise how angry he is.

"I'm going to ask you again, what the fuck, Scarlett?"

I blink. "What?" I ask, wondering what the hell he wants me to say.

"You're fucking him?"

I cross my arms over my chest. "That's none of your business."

"Get the fuck out," he snaps at Axel. "You're fucking done."

"Noah," he says. "We're brothers," he says, and I can hear the hurt in his voice. Over ten years they've been best friends. Over ten years they've been brothers, and I've ruined that.

"Then fucking act like it. You don't fuck my sister."

Axel nods. "It won't happen again."

I swallow back the pain. How can he throw me aside so quickly? Last night I was his, and now he's acting as though it meant nothing. How could I have been so stupid.

"It's time for you to leave, Berna," Noah says thickly, his furious gaze still firmly on me.

I hadn't even heard her leave Noah's room. My friend looks at me with hatred burning in her eyes. I know there’s no way thatwe'll ever be friends again. My brother broke her heart, and she's never going to forget it.

"You too, Axel," Noah says, still not taking his eyes off me.

Axel hesitates, I can see the look in his eyes, he wants to say something, but he doesn't, instead, he shakes his head and turns away. Shattering my heart in the process.

"Why are you such a dick?" I ask Noah when everyone's gone. "I mean you've broken Berna's heart and then done the same to me. Why is it always about you? Hmm, why can't you ever take anyone else's feelings into consideration."

His chest starts to heave. "I fucking took you in. I could have let you go into care, but I stepped up. I did what our parents wanted."

I shake my head. "You've done what you've wanted. All their money is gone, Noah. You think I'm stupid? You've spent almost everything they'd left for us. You took the money that was supposed to be for my school. You stole it."

He shakes his head. "I took what was owed to me, I gave up everything to look after you, and for what? For you to act like a whore and sleep with Axel? You fucking stupid bitch, it should have been you that was in that car with them when they died. Would have saved me a fucking headache."

Tears burn my eyes. "What?" I hiss. Never did I think he'd ever say something so cruel to me.

He snarls at me. "You heard what I said. You're a fucking whore, Scarlett, and I'll be damned if you are under my roof."

I stare at my brother, the only family that I have left and wonder what went wrong? How did we end up here?

"Don't worry," I hiss. "I'll be gone within the hour." I'm not going to stay and be treated as though I'm something I'm not. I don't deserve the words he's spewed today, and I certainly deserve better than Axel fucking Beckett.

Noah laughs. "Yeah, I'd love to see where you'd go. You've got no one, Scarlett, no one wants you." He turns away, his laughter taunting me as he moves to his bedroom. He closes his door, and my tears start to fall.

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