UnLove Me - The Angels Warriors MC Complete Trilogy Box Set (5 page)

I stare at her scar. It’s not the only one, but it is the worst. Her entire back is covered in small white grooves from older scars. This one is bigger, both in length and width. It looks like her skin was sliced and peeled wide opened, and whoever put her back together did a shit job. Both Reaper and I just stare, not really sure what to do or say at the moment. Before she pulls her black shirt back down, a voice startles us.

“Did that fucker do that to you?” Zippo growls out. Eden quickly pulls her shirt back down and shrinks backwards, walking until her back is against the wall, her hair moving off of her face.

“Fucking hell,” Reaper growls out.

I stare at what he’s swearing about- her face. Eden’s beautiful fucking face has been scarred. “What happened?” I say, trying to contain my anger. He fucking messed her face up. There is a flesh toned, jagged scar running from her temple to her ear. I can also see the hint of an older scar above her left brow, where she most likely needed stitches but never received proper care. She will always be beautiful to me, but knowing she has been hurt so fucking much kills me.

She quickly moves her hair back over her eye and face. We all already saw it, so she doesn’t need to hide it anymore. “Nothing,” she whispers.

“Don’t fucking lie, Eden. You showed us the scars on your back, so why hide and lie about your face?” Zippo growls out.

I look over at Zippo and see his hands clenched tight, anger pouring off of him.

“They’re just scars. They’re no different than what’s on the rest of my body,” she says quietly. “These ones I just can’t hide as well as the rest. I have special cream I use, so one day they’ll be so faded no one will really notice, eventually.”

What pisses me off most is that, even growing up, being together all those years ago, he was beating on her. I would ask where she got a bruise or a small cut, and she would laugh it off about being a klutz. “Why did you never tell me?” I ask hoarsely. Shame and guilt wash over me; I should have demanded an explanation. I could have saved her from this. I should have fought harder.

I was waiting for Eden at our spot in the park. I checked the time again, realizing she was late, which really wasn’t surprising. I figured she’d be late to her own funeral.

Finally, after her being forty minutes late, she arrived, completely out of breath. “Shit, I’m sorry, Jasper. It took forever for my parents to fall asleep,” she said when she got close to me. She was holding her chest, trying to steady her breathing.

I smiled, but then it dropped when I saw a bruise forming on her forehead, a lump already there. “What the fuck happened?” I asked her, pointing to her face.

She froze, as if thinking. “Oh, clumsy me, remember. I was running up the stairs and tripped,” she told me with a little snort.

Her dad did that to her, I know that now. Mother fucker! If he wasn’t in prison right now, I’d kill him myself. I should have joined that damn raid years ago, so I could see first-hand that the fucker died.

“I was ashamed,” she whispers, snapping me back out of my thoughts.

“Nothin’ to be fuckin’ ashamed about! We were your best friends. You should have come to us!” Zippo shouts.

I turn to Zippo. “Lilly fuckin’ knew this whole time, too, man.”  It is a shitty thing to do right now, but I’m angry and hurt. My thoughts are fucked and all over the place.

His face pales. “She never told me! We’ve been together for years, and she didn’t think to tell me she knew where Eden was or what happened to her? When I told Lilly she was back in town, she acted fucking surprised. That selfish fuckin’ bitch.” Lilly and Zippo have had a rocky relationship—I’m not surprised that she has secrets. Seems like we all have something to hide.

“Don’t blame her. Please don’t blame her. I made her promise never to tell you guys. After what happened to my mom, and after learning Jasper was off with Roni, I didn’t want you to ever know,” Eden pleads on Lil’s behalf. Her confession pisses me off and cuts me deep. She didn’t want me to know her whereabouts. She claims I never wanted her. It’s total bullshit.

“That’s bullshit!” I yell at her. “I wasn’t fuckin’ around with Roni. Yes, I was with her that night, but trust me when I say it’s not what you think. She tried her usual shit, but I wasn’t putting up with it.” I fucking loved Eden so damned much, still do. How could she have such little faith? Sure I had my thing with Monica, but she doesn’t even know about it.

Eden glares at me. “I don’t want to hear it,
Angel,
” she sneers. “We’re done. No need to lie now.” I may be a lot of things, but being a liar isn’t one of them. “Considering the welcome you gave me when I came back three months after I left? Yeah, sure,” she scoffs.

“What?” I wheeze out. What is she talking about? She never came back. If she had, I wouldn’t have ever let her go. I’m so confused- it doesn’t make sense.

I want to say more, but we’re interrupted when there is a knock on the door. “Yoo hoo! Edie, let me in, bitch. Getting cold out here.” Lilly. Fuck, this is about to be bad. Talk about perfect timing.

“I’m gonna wring her God damned neck,” Zippo says, storming toward the front door. There goes a man on a mission. Hope he doesn’t give her too hard of a time. Now I feel like shit for opening my mouth.

“I didn’t know they were together,” Eden says, sounding put out.

“They’ve been on and off for years,” I tell her. “Now, you wanna tell me what you meant by coming back to me?” I ask her.

I see her clench her jaw as her eyes narrow on me. “How about you figure that shit out on your own?”

Reaper moves to Eden, pulling her in for a hug. “Missed you,” he tells her, kissing her on the head.

She wraps her arms around his waist, and it has me seeing red. “Wanna remove your arms from her,” I tell him. My saying that causes Eden to hold onto him tighter. Now she is being a bitch and trying to get under my skin, and it’s working. Eden knows I’ve never been able to see any other guy touching her. She still knows how to push my buttons. I notice the hem of her shirt riding up, slightly revealing her stomach.

“Missed you too, Mason,” I hear her say, ignoring me in the room.

When they finally let each other go, she smiles up at him—beaming. Fuckin’ hell! I wish she could look at me that way. I would give anything for that look again. She used to smile at me like that, like I was the center of her world. Even with her face the way it is, she’s still fucking beautiful.

I met Eden at the school at lunch. I’d graduated already, but I always took my lunch break from work so it matched up with Eden’s schedule. I hated being away from her all day.

I leaned against her locker when I saw both Roni and Monica walk up. “Hey there, handsome,” they both say at the same time, in some shitty ass purring voice.

I gave them a chin lift in recognition but didn’t respond.

I wasn’t sure why Roni was even there, since she graduated the year before. Was she following me?

“You gonna finally ditch Eden and come play in the big leagues again?” Roni asked, sidling up to me and shoving her tits into my arm.

I moved away from her. “I’m in the big leagues, baby. Eden is my big league,” I told her, flashing my cocky grin. Roni fumed, stomping her foot, and pulled Monica along to the other side of the hall.

“Bitch is whacked,” I muttered, leaning back against Eden’s locker.

“Jasper!” I heard shouted. I looked down the hall, watching Monica openly glaring at Eden. Roni just rolled her eyes. Eden’s face completely lit up as she ran to me, jumped into my arms, and planted her beautiful mouth on mine.

She moaned into my mouth as my hands squeezed her ass.

“Eden and Jasper,” I heard a scolding voice say from behind me.

Eden’s eyes were still closed when she pushed off me and I let her down to the ground.

“I get you love each other and all, but that PDA stuff should be kept out of school,” Mrs. Palmer scolded us playfully, giving us a wink as she moved on.

Eden giggled. When I looked down at her, she was so fucking beautiful it hurt. I couldn’t help being proud that that beauty was all mine.

“Edie!” I hear a little voice shout from the kitchen.

“Coming, G-baby!” Eden shouts back.

She passes by me, and I want to reach out and grab her, to hold her tight in my arms and never fucking let her go. I watch her until she is out of my sight.

“That shit was fucked up. My name looks like it will be put to good use again soon,” Reaper says, sounding pleased yet pissed all at the same time.

I shake my head. “No, that fucker is mine,” I vow. I’m going to kill that piece of shit. I might not have been there for Eden all those years ago, but I’m fucking here now.

“And about that bet, bro, don’t count on losing. She’s mine. You already won, so now just make her see that she’s mine,” I ground out.

Reaper clasps his hand onto my shoulder. “Man, I know. Trust me. Why do you think I let her do the bet? I figured it was one bet I would finally win with her.”

Eden has another thing coming if she honestly thinks she’s not mine anymore. She always has been, and she always will be. I just need to remind her. I will make her remember how good we are together and see what we can have again.

Walking into the small kitchen, I find Glenna hiding underneath the round wooden table, looking scared. I kneel down to her level. “Glenna, baby, what’s wrong?” I ask her worriedly.

She points to the back door. “Mr. Zip is yelling at Auntie Lilly,” she says, starting to cry.

“Oh, baby, it’s okay,” I assure her. “I’ll be right back, kiddo. I promise.”

This is exactly the kind of shit I don’t want my sister seeing or hearing. I knew I shouldn’t have dialed that number. I wouldn’t have called had I known it was Jasper; too little too late now. He seems hell bent on being my white knight. I won’t allow him to hurt me again. I’m not that same girl who used to melt at the sound of his voice. That Eden is gone.

I storm out through the back door, interrupting their yelling at each other. Lilly is standing with her hip cocked to the side, and Zippo is pointing his finger in her flushed face.

“Thanks a lot, assholes! Glenna can hear you two fighting. She’s in the kitchen, hiding out under the table and scared out of her mind!” I yell at them. “You have a lovers tiff, take it somewhere else!”

I turn around, ignoring both of their faces paling at my words, and make my way back to Glenna. “Come here, baby,” I say to her, and she rushes into my arms. I pick her up and carry her out into the living room, interrupting Mason and Jasper whispering.

“Don’t bring Vinny here again. Jerk scared the crap out of Glenna. I won’t stand for that, her going from one monster to that garbage,” I tell them angrily, pointing toward the kitchen.

Both Jasper and Mason look shocked then immediately turn angry.

“I’m taking Glenna to get ready for bed. I want you all gone by the time I’m done. Tell Lilly to stay. She and I need to talk,” I say. Before I can start to leave the room, Glenna takes a look at the guys and hops down, going right to Jasper.

“Hey, I know you. You’re Miss Monica’s boyfriend!” She is standing right at Jasper’s side, smiling at him.

My body stiffens, and I refuse to look at Jasper. He’s with Monica? The thought of the two of them together makes me sick. I don’t have the right to be upset, but it still hurts. I never really thought about him moving on and having someone else, but it makes sense; it’s been nine years. How could he not be with someone after all this time? It was stupid of me to assume he wouldn’t—just because I haven’t been with anyone since him.

“Sorry, kid, that’s not me,” I hear him say, and my body relaxes.

“Oh, well, you look just like him,” she says back.

“Come on, G-Baby. Let’s get you ready for bed,” I say to her. She comes next to me and grabs my hand.

I walk up the stairs. Truth is, I can’t handle much more of Jasper. Hell, all of them being here together brings back so much—including my feelings for Jasper that I apparently haven’t worked through. I don’t know what to make of it all.

I run the bath but don’t fill it up too much since it’s just a washing bath. “You hop in. Your shampoo is right here, but make sure you get it all out, okay?” I tell her, putting the green shampoo bottle on the ledge of the tub. 

Fifteen minutes later, I have her hair dried and brushed, and she is tucked soundly in bed. Kissing her on the forehead, I tell her goodnight and make my way downstairs.