BOOK FOUR in The WSU Series
Elizabeth Young -
I've always wanted the star-crossed lovers type of relationship - who knew I would actually get it?
They say the line between Love and Hate is very thin, one I don't intend to experience. I could never l...
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Presence - Five Months Later
"This is ridiculous, Kai!"
"In my defense, summer solstice is coming up," Kai says with a shrug, "don't give me that shit." I've been awake every minute of the day since Lizzie has left, I haven't been able to sleep sober in five months— and just when it happens, I receive a call from Hunter Capello explaining how Kais took his shit too far.
"This has got to stop, Kai," I say for what seems like the billionth time. "As if you've been the poster boy for good," he comments with a smile as he holds the ice pack to his right eye. "My wife got up and left me, did yours?" I ask with a smile. Kai attempts to roll his eyes before leaning back into his seat. "I'm guessing Capello dropped you off?" I question, I can't lie and say this is the first time I'm stood in my hotel lobby after midnight with Kai bleeding out onto the floor. And I know it won't be the last, like my father said, Kai, is reckless. I wonder what he'll be like after I tell him he's engaged to the enemy? I know if my father told me I was to be married to someone other than Lizzie, I would lose my shit.
I doubt he's told Blake because knowing my older brother he would have told Kai. I wish I could have done something, argued with my father to change his mind, but once my father has a plan, he won't ignore it. My father follows through with every threat he makes, that's a deadly fact.
"You know, I don't need this right now," Kai remarks as he tries to stand up, I place a hand on his shoulder to push his ass back down onto the seat. "You're not going anywhere," I state as I take a seat opposite him. His eyes meet mine and unlike me and Blake, his are piercing blue, the color some would believe is unnatural. "Can I ask you something?" Kai mutters as he continues to watch for my reaction. Unlike most people who wouldn't hold my stare, Kai does— it's because he knows I'd never hurt him.
I nod encouraging his question, "what are you keeping from me?" He asks as I lean back in my chair, I place a hand on the armrest while staying emotionless. "You're keeping shit private, Lizzie knows— she knew at the wedding," I remain silent because Kai knows. Despite the questions and the interrogation, he knows the answers. And if he doesn't know for certain, he could make a guess. Kai knew it was going to happen eventually, but that doesn't mean he'd happily accept it, my brother still has his humanity, and he'll try and lie, but he wants to be loved. Kai wants someone to put him above all else as he'd do with them. Jesus, if Kai found the right girl, they'd be no questions asked, he'd ask for an out of this life.
Despite the only way out is through death. Kai would betray the New York Famille for the girl he loves, it's just too bad he'll never find her.
"You know," I utter and Kai pauses before removing the ice bag from his eye. The purple already forming around it as he continues to look through me instead. "No," the word is like a whisper and this is the only sign he still has some humanity left in him. "You wouldn't," he says with a slow shake of his head. His eyes close at the truth that he doesn't get to decide his future, his fate is set in stone. "You can't," he says as if that changes anything.
