And only a few hours later, we were sitting on Julian's private plane to Australia.
"Little question, why are we taking baby Hayes with us?" Matt looked at me and back at Adam and Peter.
"You're not taking me" I interrupted him. "I am taking you"
Adam chuckled. "You heard her"
"Okay" Matt looked at me and back at Adam. "I just don't think Julian would be okay with that"
"Julian is dead" I snapped again. "And I wanna find the fucker who killed my brother"
Adam smiled a little as he looked at Matt.
"She's scary" Matt said which made Adam chuckle. "Oh you have no idea"
It was a long flight, maybe an unnecessary flight, maybe we were losing time, but we had to check.
I had to check.
"Anyways" Adam cleared his throat. "Did you know that Piper is dating someone else?"
"She isn't-"
"Yeah she is" Adam interrupted me. "We've been trailing her for months. She's lucky she's pregnant with his child or-"
"Or what" I snapped.
"Or I would kill her myself" he looked straight in my eyes.
"She's my friend, okay?" I said, but honestly I was quite disappointed.
Fair enough that she moved on - but this was pretty soon, way too soon.
Julian would be devastated if he was still alive.
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We landed an hour ago, Adam rented a house for us, located pretty close to my old house.
"We will go over the plan tomorrow" he said as he looked at Matt, Peter and I.
"What do you mean tomorrow? We will go there right now!" I said.
He sighed, as if I was a toddler who wanted a candy.
I wanted to kill Jayden.
"Tomorrow I said" Adam looked now only at me. "We need sleep first and you stay here, okay?"
And with that he ended our discussion, left me all by myself and went to his room.
"Go to sleep Nova" Peter patted my back as he walked upstairs as well. "Or you can come to my room" Matt added with a wink.
I just flipped him off.
But I did as I was told, laid down in my bed, looking up at the ceiling.
For an hour.
Two hours.
Three hours.
"Fuck it" I got up, put on some clothes, grabbed my gun and walked downstairs.
I knew this place very well, lived here for a year.
I wasn't gonna barge in that place without a plan, I wasn't that stupid.
I walked to the tree where Julian and I used to sit at when he came to visit me.
We sat here until it was dark, he told me stories about mom, only talked about Lando when I asked him.
He was dangerous for anyone else, but for me, he was so soft.
Would do everything for me.
He would kill for me - would die for me.
He did both.
I laid down under the tree, it was quiet, something I learned to love since I met Lando.
"You know Julian, I think I wanna marry Lando" I looked at the stars. "Have a normal life with him"
I sighed. "I wish you could walk me down the aisle, but I guess I will be fine on my own"
I wiped a tear away.
"You would've been a great dad, a little overprotective maybe, but still amazing"
The stars definitely looked brighter in Australia. Always noticed that.
"And I hate you for leaving me. I hate that you are the one who's dead and not me. It should've been me" I whispered.
It was the first time I actually admitted that to myself. Jayden didn't want to kill Julian, he wanted to kill me.
"But I will kill the motherfucker" I said as I sat up.
"It's dangerous to be out here, especially all by yourself" someone said from behind me.
