Page 57 of Entangled
“I’m going to give everything to your family,” she said quietly, and I paused my movements on her legs, taking in her words before carrying on.
“What do you mean?” I asked, wondering where this train of thought even started.
“Meaning all the land, the money, the whatever, I’m giving it to Finn, and your family. I don’t want to be a part of that life anymore. I don’t want any ties to it. I just want my inheritance and that’s it. Everything else can be yours. Jude is gone. Lilah is gone. I’m free now,” she explained.
It felt like someone had punched me in the gut, because I was tied to this life. Did that mean that she didn’t want to be with me anymore? Was I part of the ties she wanted to cut?
“I’ll arrange a meeting,” I bit out, trying to keep my tone even while I rinsed off her body and grabbed her a towel. “Let me wash off and I’ll be right out. There’s a t-shirt on the bed for you.”
She didn’t seem to notice my tone and if she did she said nothing. I wrapped the towel around her as she stepped out and tried to wrap my mind around what she said.
Would I be able to come to terms with her not wanting anything to do with me? I had to ask her about it. The worst thing that could happen was she wanted me gone. Maybe I was reading too much into it.
Or maybe you’re not.
I had always made it clear to her that I wanted her to be out of this life, whether it was with me or not. I guess I just never assumed after all we’d been through she’d want to be without me.
I scrubbed my skin raw before stepping out of the shower and wrapping a towel around my waist, quickly walking out of the bathroom door and into our bedroom.
“Sor—” I started but stopped as soon as I saw her laying on the bed, in nothing but my t-shirt, fast asleep.
Would I be able to cut the ties to my family and this life as easily as I wanted to? Or would the Mafia have a hold over me forever? Did I even dare give her hope that we could have some kind of normal future?
Maybe she knew there was no way I’d ever be able to be free with her, and this was her way of letting me know.
Jude was dead and she was free now, but there was a chance I never would be.
25
SOREN
I had absolutelyno desire to get out of bed this morning after the longest and most emotionally draining night of my life.
I thought that causing Jude pain after everything he put me through would be easy but it wasn’t. It was at first, but then the blood and the pain and the tears and the screams gnawed at my nerves. I don’t think I’d ever get those noises and images out of my mind.
But it also felt freeing watching the life leave his body, because now I knew he’d never hurt me again. I was free in a way I hadn’t been in a long time. I was finally able to take my life back, and now I had a man who actually cared about me to do it with.
Last night was the first night I’d showered with Kade, and one of the first times I’d slept in his bed. He was never getting rid of me now because this was the nicest bed I’d ever laid in in my entire existence.
I smiled despite the ache in my muscles and rolled over to the man in question. Except he wasn’t there, and from the coolness of the sheets, he hadn’t been in a while.
What the hell?
I knew he was a morning person, but it was unusual for him to be gone so much sooner than me, and not to mention I would have expected him to sleep a lot longer after last night to recoup.
I looked over my shoulder at the alarm clock and saw it only read nine o clock. We hadn’t even gotten home until after two.
Which means he either never came to bed, or he barely slept at all.
I pushed back the covers and tiptoed to his dresser to pull out a pair of pajama pants so I wasn’t walking around his house in nothing but a t-shirt and underwear.
The last thing I needed this morning was Astrid seeing me in all my half naked morning glory.
I’m sure she’d seen and heard some questionable stuff in this house before, but God forbid she saw me in a t-shirt.
The floor was cold beneath my feet as I made my way downstairs and peeked around the corners and peered into the hallways to see where Kade was hiding. But the gym was empty, and the same went for the kitchen. Even the library was eerily silent.
Bile rose in my throat with fear that something was wrong, and that there had been a retaliation that came up about Jude or Lilah’s death. Although, I’m not sure who would be stupid enough to challenge the Luchettis over Lilah.
