An Arranged Marriage...Or Not? (On Hold)

Chapter 27

Chapter 27:

I headed down to the living room after making sure that I had everything. Scott and Peter were waiting for me at the base of the stairs and I mentally groaned. This did not feel good to me.

"Why do I feel like you're going to try and stop me?" I asked my best friend and cousin.

Peter looked between Scott and I before settling his gaze on me once more. "I'm just standing here because Scott asked me to." Lie...

My eyebrow raised and I looked at my cousin. "Scott, you have anything to say?"

"I'm sorry," he said.

I was confused. Sorry for what? Before I could voice my concern for this, something hit the back of my head and my vision darkened. I stumbled and placed a hand on the wall. I felt someone pick me up and then place me on something soft. But it was the cold metal clipped around my wrist that set off the alarms in my head.

"I'm sorry, but I can't allow you to come with us, Sam. You're going in this with only one person in mind and I can't have that. I can't protect you and that makes you a liability right now. We'll be back soon."

The door slammed shut and I tried willing my eyes to open. The pain in my head was too great, unfortunately, and I was pulled back into the darkness.

*Scott's Point of View*

"Man, do you really think we should have done that?" Peter asked.

I shook my head and looked down. "I love my cousin; I really do. But she's not in the right state of mind right now. She's too focused on killing Tommy and she doesn't realize that she'll get us all killed because of her grudge."

Jason and Jesse wouldn't look at me; as if I was the bad guy. I looked over my shoulder and sighed. "You know I'm doing this to protect Sam, right?"

Jesse looked up. "I don't believe you."

"Ever since Sammy came back, you've changed," Jason continued. "You've been looking for an excuse to remove her from her role as leader."

My eye twitched. "Listen here, I didn't have to let you join. In fact, I'm pretty sure Sam would have preferred that. But I saw something that she never would have seen. I saw talent. You should be thanking me instead of treating me as the villain. Your sister isn't healthy; she hasn't been for a long time."

I looked at the others - Hunter, Phil, Becca, Seth, Tanner, and Jack. Hunter was looking over plans; determined to get his older brother back. Tanner and Jack were talking with the twins - comforting them after what I did to Sam. Seth was silent; his brother-in-law having just been murdered. I looked at Becca and Phil.

Becca and Phil joined hands. It was Phil who spoke, "We're not doing this for you. We're doing this because we love Sam and don't think she should go through any more pain."

My hand clenched into a fist. Why couldn't they understand that I was a better leader for them than Sam was? I was there for months, running the gang myself, while Sam was off having her own issues. She wasn't good under pressure and she always managed to get someone we cared about killed. First it was Kimmy and then it was Jon. Of course we've lost others, but Kimmy and Jon meant the most. 

I don't know why my aunt passed down her position to Sam; she definitely didn't deserve it. She was weak and this was my moment to prove to everyone that I was right; that I'm the one who deserves to be leader. 

*End of Scott's Point of View*

I growled as I tried slipping my wrist out of the handcuffs. I'd done it before, but my mind was clouded with hatred and I wasn't thinking straight. I felt betrayed by the one person I was supposed to trust. He was my second in command; my right hand man. Scott was hand picked by me because I trusted him to run things if I was gone. But I was back now, and it seems like he's not happy about it; though he tried to hide it from me.

My head fell back on the couch and I cussed. The front door creaked open and the last person I expected walked in. 

"Mom?"

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