En·dear·ing

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*TW: SA*

Arden • POV

I was in the car with Mal and Noah heading to the airport so I could get away from the nightmare I was currently living.

"I can't believe I believed them, I can't believe I let this happen to me again" I said whispering to myself.

"There's nothing you could've done Arden" Mal said looking at me in the rear view mirror.

"There is! I let this happen to myself. After all signs I let myself get fooled by them" I said with tears in my eyes.

"A-Arden" Noah tried to say but when he saw the glare I was giving him he stopped talking mid sentence.

"I don't want to hear it from you. You probably knew what they were doing all along" I said as a tear rolled down my cheek.

Leaning my head against the window I felt the cool glass helped the pounding headache I was experiencing. Closing my eyes I tried not to think of Dom and Kuba in the playroom with those girls.

But no matter what I did, it was the only thing I saw.

Feeling my phone vibrate in my pocket I picked it up sending Kuba to voicemail for the 15th time.

"I...I know it's not my place Arden, but I really did think they loved you. With the amount of years I've known them, they've never looked at any girl the same way they look and treat you" Noah said looking at me.

Turning my head I didn't see a hint of bullshit, he was telling the truth. What I did see in his eyes which confused me was a look of disappointment that never seemed to leave his face after I told him and Mal what I saw.

"Well, they don't, so I guess both of us got our hopes up." I said laying my head back on the window.

Closing my eyes I felt my phone vibrate 7 times indicating I got another text again.

Reluctantly I opened my phone seeing texts from both Dom and Kuba. I was going to open and read it but shut off my phone knowing I was going to break down again.

They never loved me. Nobody will ever love me....

Dom • POV

*11 hours earlier*

I ran into Kubas room stressing about the call I just received from my security team.

"Kuba, Kuba, come on we have to go" I said barging into his room.

He said goodbye to whoever was on the call before he quickly got up following me towards the end of the house.

"What happened?" He asked confused.

"I-" as I was about to finish the door and widows were opened and metal tin like canisters were thrown in the house.

"What the-"

Kuba got cut off as they started to spray out some kind of mist into the air making it hard for me to breathe.

"Cover your mouth and nose" I choked out.

As I kept walking I felt my body go numb and it was getting harder and harder to see and feel.

"Don't s-stop" I heard Kuba grumble out behind me.

I heard a loud thud that made turn around to see my best friend on the ground unconscious.

"No"

Holding my breath I reached down to pull him up before it was too much and I myself felt the heavy push of gravity.