Irish Promises

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Blake

What the fuck have I done? 

Surely Hugh isn't being serious right now by insinuating that I've done something, that any of this is my fucking fault. 

Can he not see the state of me right now? See how I've just been battered? 

I stare at my brother completely dumbfounded by how he can even assume any of this is my fault. His focus seeming to be on what I've done rather than the face we've just told him that Stasia has gone off into the sunset with Volkov. 

The fucking cheating bitch. 

I seeth as I glare at him releasing all that pent up frustration in his direction. Unable to direct it to who I really want to right now. 

"What did I do? Did you hear a thing Finn said? She went off with him she's been fucking playing us this whole time" I roar at him as I release Finn who just sags down onto the couch.

Still too shattered by the revelation to say anything. 

It takes a moment but finally everything seems to click into place as Hugh's expression changes, he brings his hands up and drags them across his face seeming just as perplexed as the rest of us.

When he starts pacing the lounge I gather that's his anger building inside him but something about it seems off, like he's planning, putting something together in his mind.

"I need you to tell me everything" he says coming to a halt his eyes pinning mine, his expression hard and serious.

"What's there to tell she's been banging Volkov" I say with a shrug feigning that I couldn't care less but even saying it out loud is painful.

"Just fucking tell me!" He roars nothing but pure anger directed at me. 

"I tracked her phone to one of her dads restaurants and-" I begin to explain but he cuts me off. 

"Why the fuck were you tracking her phone?" he asks his brows pinching together. 

"Well I couldn't find you so I decided to go and speak to her instead" I explain. 

"Speak to her about what?" he cuts in again not giving me the chance to actually fucking tell him what happened just like he wants me to and now it's my anger bubbling up to the surface. 

"The twins thought she might be pregnant" I say and his face quite literally drops as if that is the most shocking part of all of this. 

"What?" he asks, his bows pinched together and a look of what the fuck written across his face. clearly baffled.

"She was throwing up and avoiding us" Finn says from where he's sat, finally seeming to snap out of it and join our conversation. 

Hugh takes in what he says for a moment and then he fucking scoffs, actually laughs as if any of this is fucking amusing. 

"Not because she's fucking pregnant you idiots" he says shaking his head. 

"Nah because she was off opening her legs for-" I begin to say. 

"Don't" Hugh snaps pointing at me and cutting me off. "Don't say shit you're gonna regret Blake" He then warns. 

I'm starting to lose my patience with him, his response to all of this has completely baffled me. It's not how I'd of expecting him to react, especially not with how he was with her in the beginning. I guess I'd assumed he'd taken her betrayal hard but that doesn't seem to be the case at all.

"Regret?" I ask. "Is nothing I've said sunk in? I saw her with my own fucking eyes Hugh, saw her walking out of that restaurant handing in hand with him" I then snap at him, the image of them together flashing through my mind and causing my hands to shake with anger.

"She fucking stood there and watched whilst his goons beat the crap out of me" I then shout and again where I expect him to explode it just doesn't happen. 

Instead he just glares at me as he says "Did he buy it?" 

"What?" me and Finn ask at the same time. 

"Did Volkov believe she chose him over you? Over us?" he grits out as if he's frustrated with us right now. 

It takes me a moment to fully digest what he's just said, for the meaning behind those words to completely sink in. 

"You knew" I breathe and he nods subtlety. 

"What the fuck are you going on about?" Finn snaps clearly not having put the pieces together quite yet. 

Hugh sighs and takes a free seat, gesturing for me to do the same. I don't do it though. Instead I continue to stand as I glare at him registering what the hell he's on about. 

"She hasn't betrayed us, she's just doing what we wanted to her to do in the beginning" he explains and where I thought I was angry, it's nothing compared to how I feel right now. 

Yet again he's been fucking scheming behind our backs. 

"You fucking set this up?" I snap at him and at that Finn's head snaps up, everything seeming to finally sink in for him. 

"She's with him on purpose?" He breathes staring at our older brother. 

"Yes" Hugh grits out "And you very nearly blew it all up in her face" he then sneers at me.