WILD RIDE (Rafe Cameron x OC) *COMPLETE*

Chapter Fifty (Alana)

CHAPTER FIFTY

Alana

John B and I went looking for Sarah. We go down to the lower deck toward the boiler room and as he's shouting for Sarah, which I told him not to do- a hook comes around the corner. John B shoves me behind him and Rafe steps out from around the piping.

"Watch your head, brother. Wouldn't want to hurt you, now would I?" Rafe scoffs. Sweat beading down his forehead.

"Put that thing down, Rafe." John B orders but quietly. "This isn't about you."

"No, it's not." Rafe agrees. "It's about her." He points at me. "You used her to get to me. What did you really have planned, John B? Hmm? Get her to trick me into falling in love with her and for what? For my inheritance? Especially once my Dad got the gold? Then the cross- you wanted some of that cash. I know you did. You're a Pogue, John B. Always looking to take a step higher."

"That's not what happened, Rafe." John B has his hands up and argues softly. Explaining himself and I keep behind him. "You can think what you want to think but the truth is the cross belongs to Pope. The gold was just me trying to finish what my old man started. It all became something bigger and it would have been easier if we all just worked together."

"Never in a million years." Rafe argues back. Swinging the hook around his wrist. Teasing John B, will he strike him or will he not. "You Pogues are nothing but greedy. Both of you- all of you. Pope, JJ- I mean come on now. JJ Maybank being involved? Was this just one big plot? Did him and Alana even break up? Or are you playing me." He looks right into my eyes. "Tell me the truth."

I release a deep breath. "Rafe... I'm not playing you. Where is all of this coming from?"

"I had an interesting argument with Pope before we got on the ship. He caught me dumping Renfield and he made it known to me that whatever is between you and JJ? It isn't over it. That you're still a Pogue through and through."

"Whatever Pope said he said to make you mad." I push past John B who still tries to pull me away from Rafe.

But I know Rafe Edward Cameron. I know he'd never lay a finger on me. He would never intentionally hurt me. He's only trying to hurt me with his words right now because he thinks I hurt him. He thinks I betrayed him.

"Pogues have stolen everything from me. Pogues are the reason my mom is dead. Pogues... You just want everything that you can't have. You take and take and take until there's nothing left and yet you still want more. What more of me do you want Alana? I've given you everything. I didn't know I had a heart to give until I gave you mine. I gave you a roof over your head, food in your stomach, water to drink, books to read- Alana I gift you books just because I love you. And this... This is how I find out it was all bullshit."

"It's not bullshit, Rafe!" I scream in his face. "Avocado! I fucking love you!"

"DON'T!" Rafe's shout echoes and nearly silences even the machines on the ship. "Don't try and use that word. It's not a magic word. It's some stupid bullshit you made up to make me believe you. To force me to trust you and believe your lies. All this time... All these months... Three months I wasted on you, Alana. And yet it feels like three years."

"Rafe, please-"

"I should have known better. Kie's half a Pogue and when I fucked her during her Kook year and she ran back to the Pogues... I should have known you'd be just like the rest of them. I expected John B to do me dirty. I expected it from JJ and Kie. And from Pope and Sarah. But you? Alana I never expected this from you. I should have... But I didn't."