Chapter 32

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Chapter 32
Amy
I felt horrible. I probably looked just as bad. I wasn't sure if I had even slept at all. I didn't remember closing my eyes but when I looked at the clock it was now ten thirty-eight in the morning. The dark curtains blocked out any chance of the sun allowing me to pretend that this was a cave that no one could ever enter. It kept everything out including supernatural creatures.
I didn't know who I was keeping out. Archie, his world, everybody that ever knew him, everybody that ever knew me. I liked the idea of everything.
I didn't mind the idea of being forgotten. Now I understood why Malcolm did it. The pain was far too great. I didn't like the idea of everybody talking about me behind my back, whispering things that were probably true. I couldn't stand the idea, knowing that this had happened to me twice now. It had probably happened to me more than that I just had only caught two of them. But of course that later of the two was the biggest pill to swallow.
Archie had cheated on me. There wasn't another way to put it. Well, there was a couple of ways to put it but my head hurt so much that I couldn't even be bothered to think about that.
I closed my eyes and attempted to sleep but all it brought was the image of Archie on the top of that woman. Not to mention how much they stung from crying all last night. I didn't need a mirror to know that they were red and puffy. But still I closed them and pretended like sleep would come to me.
"Amy?"
My heart caught into my throat when I heard the door open and my sister's voice.
"It's Liv and Allie's here too," she told me before I heard the door close.
All I wanted to do was cry into their arms but I wouldn't allow myself. I was tried of feeling sorry for myself. It was time to feel angry.
Why should Liv get the perfect mate? Why was her mate so perfect? And Allie. My only friend. Now probably on the side of her cheating brother, trying to win me over.
"Go away," I groaned into my pillow, "I don't want to speak to anyone."
"Come on, Amy," Allie said before I felt the mattress dip under their weight.
"Archie told us what happened," Liv filled me in.
The mention of his name made my blood boil. He probably fed them that lie that he tried to feed to me.
"Do you want to talk about it?" she asked me.
"No," I groaned. I barely wanted to think about it, "And even if I did, I wouldn't talk to you two."
"What? Why not?" Allie asked, offended almost.
"Amy, I'm your sister."
At that, I was ready to empty all my hate and anger on to them and I didn't even care. I guess that was the real difference between Liv and I. I didn't care.
"Some sister you've been," I snapped, coming out from under the cover.
Their expression was all I needed to see to know that I looked like hell.
"You don't even know the real reason why I'm even came to Scotland."
She frowned, "Of course I do, you told me. You wanted a fresh start, to figure out your life."
"That was a pack of lies," I snapped, making her frown deepen, "I got fired from my job and the last guy that I was with cheated on me. I came to Scotland for my sister. And if you truly were my sister, you would have figured it out."
I buried myself under the covers, pretending like I didn't want to take back what I said even though it made the hole in my chest even larger.
"You could have told me that," she said sounding just as heartbroken as I felt.
"Yeah, well, how could I? Not with your werewolf boyfriend around."
I swallowed feeling tears in my eyes. I knew that I was hurting her but I wanted to know that there were people out there that was hurting just as much as I was right now.
"Amy, you know that I would have made time for you. You're my sister. You always come first."
I didn't answer her. Too ashamed of what I had said.
"Amy, pushin' us away isn't goin' to make you feel any better," Allie told me making the anger burn.
I uncovered myself from the covers and let out my anger onto her.
"Oh really, because I feel like shit right now," I snapped, "And if you're here to try and convince me that your brother is some saint, you can shut the door behind you right now."
"Oh trust me, that is not why I'm here," she reassured me, though I didn't believe her, "That bastard has made a riff in my family which is a common occurrence sadly. But his story that he told you was true."
"Really?" I snapped again, "Because the very short story, sorry, sentence that he said was, that if he didn't do what he did, 'he' would kill his family."
Liv's head dropped at the same time Allie's head turned to her's for guidance.
"He's a vampire that was new to town, well, so we thought. Archie use to work for him a couple of years ago and when he came back into town, he wanted Archie to work for him again. When Archie wouldn't, he threatened to kill us all."
My eyes narrowed and I shook my head, heartbroken that my sister was lying for that creep. The fact that she wasn't even telling me the 'vamp's' name was pure evidence that it was one big lie.
"How could you lie to me?" I asked as tears filled my eyes again, "To your own sister!"
"I'm not lying Amy," she told me, "It's the truth. Archie really had no choice."
I couldn't hear another word of this.
"Get out!" I shouted.
"Amy –."
"Get out!" I yelled over Allie, "I want you out!"
"Come on Liv," Allie said, jumping to her feet and taking Liv's hand with her.
As soon as the door shut, I fell into a puddle of tears, crying myself to sleep once again.
"Amy."
My eyes slowly opened at the sound of a different voice. They landed on the glowing clock, the only evidence that I had been asleep at all.
"Amy," the voice called again, shaking my shoulder.
I groaned when I realized it was Malcolm sitting on the edge of my bed and waking me from the land of dreams.
"Go away," I groaned, rolling over, "just leave me in here to die already."
"I can't let that happen, Amy. Your very important to someone close to me."
I moaned, feeling fire that had died in my stomach burning again, "just get out. I don't want to think about him."
He was silent but didn't move.
"I know that you don't believe Archie so I'm not goin' to convince you."
I frowned, rolling to look at him. I couldn't pretend that his offer didn't interest me. It wasn't like Liv's or Allie's. I guess that's why I decided to here him out.
"Why?" I asked, hearing my voice crack.
"Because clearly it's not workin'," he stated, "but I know deep down, you believe him."
That's when I reached breaking point. I wasn't going to sit there and listen to him tell me what I believed and didn't believe.
"I don't care what happened," I snarled, "he was screwing another woman. He broke every promise he ever said. He knew what cheating means to me. He knew it would crush me. So don't you dare sit there and say that I'm over reacting or not being understanding enough because you have no fricking idea! So just piss off!"
I buried myself in my blankets again. I hoped he would get the picture and just leave but I knew he wouldn't. He was more stubborn than Archie.
"I'm not goin' to pretend like I know what your goin' through. But I know what Archie's goin' through. I know what it's like to hurt someone you love because you didn't have control over the situation."
"Archie didn't loose control," I growled, under my breath, "he knew exactly what he was doing."
Silence again.
"Maybe," he said very quietly, telling me that he doubted his own beliefs as well, "but I knew a different Archie than you. When our parents died," he paused, "somethin' broke inside all of us. For Archie, he stopped feeling."
I refused to be manipulated in this way. I refused to feel story for him just because his parents were dead.
"I know that you hate him for what he did, I don't blame you. But...Archie didn't feel anything until the day he met you."
When I opened my eyes again, it was three-forty-five. I would have done the calculation in my head if I cared. All I knew was that I had slept.
I sat up, feeling on the verge of tears but so tired of crying. My eyes landed on the bathroom door and the idea of showering till I forgot all of this became far too great.
I stood on my shaky feet and aimed for the bathroom. Before I got there, I stopped. I wasn't sure why, but I swear I saw something that was out of the ordinary, something that wasn't supposed to be there. I looked down at the floor and spied the pile of dirty laundry I hadn't put away yet.
I frowned when I spied something that made me stop. A little white piece of cardboard, sticking out of the back pocket of my jeans. I picked it up and recognised it from when it was given to me a week ago.
Hello, Amy
H-How do you know my name?
Don't be afraid
Y-you know, the last person that looked at me like that is now d-dead
Yes, I heard about that little attack
H-How?
Does it matter?
Yeah –
I should say sorry
Are you though?
No. See, that attack was meant to happen
It was?
Yes, it was so that you would finally know the truth about the Patterson family. They're monsters. They've killed people
W-why are you telling me this?
Because I care about you, I don't want you to get hurt
You don't even know me
No, but I know Archie Patterson
A-Archie? W-What about him?
He likes to hurt pretty little things like you, chews them up, spits them out. I feel so sorry for his mate
I-I'm –
Oh Honey, I'm so sorry, I forgot. I did know about your situation. Hey, let me help you. Call this number when Archie Patterson has broken your heart. We can't let all those pretty things turn dull because of him
I swallowed, remembering the vampire in the woods. He could take away my anger by taking away Archie. If this guy could hurt him, then it would make my hurting stop.
Without thinking twice about it, I reached for my phone that was still in my purse last night. It sat on the chest-of-draws where I had thrown it at one point in the night.
I took out my phone and dialled the number.
"Ah, Amy," he answer after too rings.
My heart caught in my throat and it almost seemed impossible to talk again.
"H-hi, is this A-Adin Hudges?" I asked, ignoring my stutter.
"It is? Now, tell me, has Archie Patterson broken your heart?"
His question brought back the memory and the memory brought back the tears. Without being about to help it, I hiccupped making it impossible to hide the fact that I was crying once again.
"Oh Honey, we can't have you crying now. Tell me what you need me to do."
I couldn't tell him. The lump in my throat was too big and it became impossible to breathe.
"Now, now Honey. We can't have him getting away scot free but I can't do anything until you tell me what you want."
Oh God what do I want. I wanted Archie to know how it feels to have your heart ripped to shreds.
"I w-want Archie to know what it's like to have a giant whole in his heart, that he can never fill."
The line went quiet for a moment or two before Adin finally replied, "Your wish is my command."


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