Page 75 of Make You Wish You Were Dead
"Not a good idea, Cole. Rowan is handling it," Ace says which makes me furrow my eyebrows.
"What?" I say, which makes Ace look at me.
"Jane. Let me ask you something." Ace says and then he walks towards my bed and sits down. "Do you want to kill him?" I maintain eye contact with Ace, thinking about it. Thinking about how it would feel to kill him. I think about killing the man who ruined my life. I imagine me taking a knife and driving it through his chest as blood spills from his mouth and he grasps onto me, pleading for mercy. "I can tell Rowan to bring him to you so you can kill him. I can tie him up and put him in a room for you to light his ass on fire. All you have to say is yes."
I think about it again and again.
Me killing him.
But as I think about it, I see Rowan watching me kill his brother. His only family.
"No. I don't want him dead. I just want him in prison where he will spend the rest of his life in a cell."
Ace nods his head but then my dad says, "Fuck that. We're killing him, Ace."
Ace turns his head to look at my dad. "No, we're not. This is Jane's choice, Cole. She gets to decide what we do with him."
"Baby." My dad looks at me and I can tell he wants to destroy everything in my room and beat the living shit out of Andrew, but he cares more about what I want than him. "Please, Jane. He needs to die-"
"No," I cut him off. "I'm not having a man's death on my hands. He will spend the rest of his life in prison."
"It's up to her, Cole. You can't change her mind," Aria says as she leans against the wall. "You need to listen to her."
My mom walks up to the bed, and she sits down on the other side of me. A small tear falls from her face, and she smiles at me and moves a strand of my hair behind my ear.
"Jane."
"Mom," I say, finally saying that word again.
Another tear falls from her eyes. "I love you."
"I love you, too."
My mom wraps her arms around me, and I do the same with her. "God, I missed your voice. Please don't ever hide it from me again," she begs.
I kiss her shoulder. "I won't." I look up at everyone in the room and let go of my mom. "I want to ask for one favor though."
"Anything," Thalia says.
"I feel comfortable talking to you guys again, not other people. Just don't rush me into it. And after this whole thing is handled with him in jail, I don't want him or that night to ever be brought up again."
"Okay. We promise, baby," my mom says and everyone else nods their heads.
Forty
Rowan
I slammy car door closed and look up at the Reyes' mansion.
It's close to 3:00 AM right now and I had to sneak past the security and go through the underground tunnels that no one knows of.
Cole told me about them when I first started the job as Jane's bodyguard because he thought I should know in case anything were to happen.
I walk towards the front door of the house and unlock it with the key I have. I slowly open the door and get inside the house. When I close the door, I hear soft breathing behind me.
I turn around and catch the guy's head into a headlock.
The person elbows me in the stomach and I wince and push him to the floor. When he falls I grab my gun from my waistband and aim it at him.
