Page 137 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

But she’s not getting away with it this time. She can’t just go missing for three days and show up out of the blue without giving us anything.

Not this time.

I narrow my eyes and head straight for her, needing some fucking answers.

“Where have you been? We’ve—” I stop myself. She doesn’t need to know that I’ve also been scouring this place and losing my damn mind looking for her too.

“The others have been going crazy, looking for you.”

She stays silent, looking everywhere but at me. And I can’t take it anymore. I can’t take her treating me like I’m nothing. I lose it.

“Answer me!” I move closer to her, ready to shake any fucking answer out of her, when she finally replies.

“I’m not in the mood.”

I’m stunned silent by her answer. She’s… She’s not in the mood… What the actual fuck?

Whoever this is, it’s not the Kiarra I knew. She’s fucking long gone by the looks of it.

I’m so fucking shocked by her reply that I laugh. There’s not an ounce of humor in it. It’s fucking dark, just like how I’m feeling right now.

“You’re not in the mood? Are you fucking kidding me? No one has seen or heard from you in three days. Not one person in this god damn hotel knows where you’ve been, and you just show up. Not. In. The. Fucking. Mood.”

“Do you even care about anyone but yourself?” I shake my head, the answer already clear.

“Fuck, don’t answer that, the answer is fucking crystal clear.”

She goes to move past me, but there’s no way I can just drop this. I reach out to stop her when she gasps like she’s in pain.

I quickly drop her hand, frowning. “What the fuck?”

My heart fucking drops as she winces, pulling away from me. I look at her,reallylook at her and notice how stiff she in. And every time she slightly moves, she winces.

What the fuck is going on?

“What’s wrong?” I ask, already expecting a smart reply. But she just tells me it’s nothing. Which is a complete and utter lie. She was a shitty liar back when we were kids and she’s even worse at it now.

“You’re lying. Tell me what happened?” I push for something,anythingfrom her. Fuck, I’ll take a damn hint at this stage.

She sighs. “It doesn’t matter, it’s not likeyouof all people care.”

If she only fucking knewhowmuch I still cared. Even after everything she’s put us through. Everything she’s still putting us through.

I clench my fists, stopping myself from reaching out and shaking some sense into her.

“Damn it, Kiarra. Stop being so damn stubborn and tell me what the hell happened.”

She takes a slow, measured breath, wincing again. “I… I’m fine.”

“You and I both know that’s a fucking lie.” I step back realizing I’m going to get nowhere with her fast. Besides, I’m the last person she’s going to talk to right now.

But she needs to talk tosomeone. Someone that has the fucking patience to deal with her bullshit.

I force myself to get moving to not look back and focus on finding one of the guys. I meet Luka in the basement.

The rest of the guys must be still out looking for her. I quickly update him on what just happened, and he heads straight to her like the whipped little shit he is.

I blow out a frustrated breath and start looking for one of the other guys. Hopefully, I’ll run into Jax first, and he can do a few rounds of sparring with me.

I need to work off this energy right now or my anger is going to get the best of me and if that happens, then this place will go up in fucking flames.

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