CHAPTER 91

LUKE

"It's been a week. This is fucking ridiculous! They must have an answer. A reason! Something other than 'she needs to do it on her own. What a useless fucking thing to say! They're supposed to be the specialists!" I was seeing red, my vision tunneling as I paced outside th "I'm sorry, man. I know she's important to you to all of us. I'm sure she'll wake up when she's ready. We just gotta wait," Tom said softly, trying not to

provoke me. I wanted to laugh in his face. What a bullshit thing to say that she means a lot to everyone. If she doesn't wake up... "Fuck." I breathed out, sinking down onto the concrete, and letting my head fall into my hands. Tom sat down next to me

Why he was here, I couldn't understand-or maybe I could. He was still under the delusion that Jessica was his girlfriend. Technically she was...

"Look, Tom. I need to tell you something, man," I said, more to the concrete floor than to him. I need to tell him that I slept with her. I need to tell him that whatever he thought they were they aren't.

But what was the alternative? Jessica dating me? From bad t fucking worse. After everything she's been through she

deserves something better than

"Yeah, sure. What's up?"

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My head snapped up at the sound of my mother's voice ringing through the

Weren't they in Europe?

she reached us, pulling me into

did the right thing, you know! You saved her life!"

my nose stuffed up like

I wasn't of course...

as my father approached. "Lukas," he

wasn't. supposed to be here. He's the very same breed as the assholes I saved Jess from. I nodded back. My mother looked between us and sighed, knowing that this battle was a different beast altogether and not one she should mention right now. I didn't have the capacity, and

of yours?" my mother

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both Tom said, smiling at them. My mother narrowed her eyes at me before forcing a

of repaying him. I wouldn't even know where

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