Page 3 of Seduction

“Say that again?” But he’s not looking for Creed to repeat himself, and we all know it.

I lift my chin in defiance, turning to stomp back towards the house. “Both of you can get fucked. I need to get back to Dad.”

They grunt but follow behind me as we make our way back to the house. Creed’s phone rings and he takes the call, never losing step with us before he curses softly. Hanging up the phone, he looks between us when we come to the clearing by the house.

“Ollie says we got them all,” Creed begins, and the panic dies inside me for a split second. “But…” His voice cuts off, but he doesn’t have to say it. I know.

I can fucking feel it.

“What. Happened?” I turn on them both, and Creed actually pales.

“Doll—"

“No! Tell me where he is, right now!” My heart is racing like it’s going to come out of my chest as he looks between Luke and I before confirming my worst fear.

“They took him, Haliee. He’s gone.”

I’m going to kill them.

Everything is so fucked up and I hate them.

I don’t want to, but they’re partially to blame for this, and it’s a lot easier to place blame on them right now.

It’s a fine balance between love and hate.I never understood what people meant when they said that until this very moment.

I hate my mother. I have absolutely nothing resembling love for that woman, but I love my Dad. I could never hate him, so the sentiment never made sense.

Then in walks the Deadly fucking Seven, and my heart is a huge, colossal mess of that love-hate balance.

Lukas lied to me. Strike one.

He let Dad split up from him. Strike two.

Creed never came clean about being the one to scare me that night so long ago. Strike three.

And Ollie.

Fuck, that strike may be the hardest to deal with.

He knows how much Dad means to me, and he turned his back on the cameras anyway. Strike four.

I’m pretty sure the only one I trust right now is Corden, but really, they all knew about Creed. They had to, because these guys don’t keep secrets from each other.

Since that means they all knew, it means they all kept it from me, and puts them squarely on my shit list.

See? Love-hate.

Lukas was the first guy I’ve ever been in love with, but I felt my heart opening up to every single one of these assholes. Now I’m questioning whether or not I can trust them, and it hurts so fucking much.

I’m worried I can’t trust them, but here I am anyway, sitting in Lukas’ room because I can’t be at the cabin.

Dimitri was waiting for a chance to get to me, and I gave it to him. The only thing that stopped him was Creed and Luke making it impossible to grab me, and he took Dad instead.

This is such a fucking mess!

KNOCK. KNOCK.

Whoever it was that knocked, doesn’t wait to be invited in before opening the door.

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