Broken Bond by C.J. Primer
Chapter 38
38
CALLUM
“I was beginning to think you were avoiding me,” Troy mutters dryly as he
forces his way past me into my apartment.
My muscles lock up as his shoulder knocks into mine. “Yeah, well I knew you wouldn’t stop calling until I picked up,” I
grumble.
I glare after my stepfather as he strides right into the living room like he owns the damn place, and all the effort I put into calming myself prior to this interaction is immediately wasted at the sight of him in my space. My jaw ticks in agitation, fingers twitching at my sides. I’m not fond of anybody intruding on my space, Nessa being the only exception.
That’s who I’m really doing this for. My
girl is an idealist; she can’t abide not seeing wrongs righted, so if there’s one to uncover here, I’ll try, for her. I finally picked up one of Troy’s calls this
morning and told him he could come over for a chat, though I still have doubts about Chase’s plan actually working. It’s
clever, but he doesn’t know Troy like I do. It’d take a sledgehammer for this man to
crack.
“Your mother’s hurt that you haven’t stopped by since you returned,” Fuckface comments as he sinks down onto my
sofa, throwing an arm over the back and settling in.
“I doubt that,” I snort.
He gives me a once-over, the corners of his eyes crinkling with a smile. “You’re right. She hasn’t even asked about you.” 7
He’s clearly wasting no time in trying to get under my skin. He should know by
now that I’m not phased by my mother’s indifference, though. I just shrug, striding into the room and taking a seat in the recliner on the opposite side, maintaining a detached, aloof exterior even though I feel bile crawling up my
throat.
Realizing his first barb didn’t land, Troy switches tactics. “Pity about that girlfriend of yours,” he murmurs as he picks a piece of lint off the sofa, flicking it
away.
My pulse picks up speed. Damnit. “What about her?” I grit out.
That patronizing grin of his that I fucking hate makes a swift appearance, my stepdad delighting in managing to strike a nerve. “Spencer said he’s seen her out with Miles,” he says, attempting to twist the knife. When I don’t immediately react, he presses on. “It must hurt, seeing her move on so quickly. And with one of
your so-called friends, no less.” Troy sucks in a hissed breath through his teeth, feigning a wince of sympathy. “You did the right thing, though, breaking that
off. Glad to see you took my advice to
heart.”
“We’re back together, actually,” I mutter before I can stop myself. I wasn’t
planning on revealing that little tidbit of information to this asshole, but seeing him sitting on my couch looking so smug, it just slips out. This is what he does; burrows himself under my skin until my knee-jerk reactions overpower rationality.
Troy’s brows shoot up, his impenetrable mask slipping momentarily. Then he fucking chuckles, like my life is all some big joke to him. “Interesting,” he tuts. ” Surprised you’d want her back after
another man had her.”
“You wanted Mom.” 13
I see the split-second reaction, the curl of his lip, the flash of anger in his eyes. But just as quickly as it appeared, he smooths it over, schooling his expression. “Well, I certainly hope she isn’t pregnant,” he muses. Pausing, his eyes narrow, that familiar look of hatred swirling behind them as he fixes me with a venomous gaze. “I’d hate for you to have to see what it’s like to live with another man’s
mistake.” 7
I don’t let him see it. He’s never
even. Now, I don’t want anything
you want from me, Troy?” I sigh, leaning back in the recliner
fingertips against the
want me to apologize for being born?”
I want,” he snaps, his patience wearing thin. “We discussed it the last time we
he’s cutting right to the
for Spence, just like you asked me to. Problem is, the position you were after for him
his face again. ” What? By
can’t suppress the grin that pulls at my lips. “Me.”
posture stiffens as his eyes narrow in rage,
feathers to be ruffled. It’s so damn satisfying to see him being the one to squirm for once, knowing
his head in disbelief. ” You
not?” I scoff.
our alpha doesn’t know what you did. I’d hate to
you think I
I interrupt,
into my tone.
doesn’t miss it, nor the tight
back into the sofa, a
creasing his lips. “He
asked you to be
he says matter-of- factly. “Friend or not, no alpha would
pack at risk by
loose cannon.”
armrests of the recliner as I suppress my instinctual reaction. I won’t let him see that he’s
me. Especially not if this plan has any hope
asked me, actually,” I say calmly, just as we rehearsed. “He said the current enforcers
who isn’t afraid
done. Someone with
killer instinct.”
instinct?” Troy scoffs. He shakes his head in disbelief, his composed mask slipping again. “You almost pissed yourself that night,” he
that’s what I wanted you
press on, sticking to the script. “And it worked, it got me out of being punished. But I knew what
maniacal laugh. “How you’d planned?!” he barks. ” Oh, that’s rich. As if a woman like that would’ve picked up a seventeen-year-old
keep it together, though. Somehow, I press on, without missing a beat. “You were there, you saw her,” I
was paid to be,” Troy
Bingo.
spine goes
it was a
all along.
I never see
there that night, waiting in the wings. My mind races,
this, Chase let
Rob had mentioned to him; the reason behind Alpha Vaughn’s suspicion
made more than one play to obtain pack rank for himself in the past and was repeatedly passed over. Vaughn
and given how close Chase and
writing on the wall; that
over Spencer. And if that were the case, it could’ve
it makes sense. Too much fucking sense to
clever, huh?” Fuckface chuckles dryly, shaking his head.
he’s caught onto what I’m. trying to do here. But
makes you special? That you can use it
I sent you to time-out, crying when you thought you’d killed that whore. I
was hilarious, a prank between
son.”
Wait, what?
trying to
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