Undercover

Chapter Twenty-four

Jordyn Edwards

I sat on the couch in the house we rented and watched the sun slowly creep over the horizon. For some reason I couldn't sleep last night, so many things ran through my mind.

Something deep down inside of me was telling me that something bad was about to happen. Cliff has been on my mind heavy lately.

It's so crazy.

I'm worried about him. When I look in my brother's eyes I don't see the same person. All I see is hate.

When I look at Brooks, it looks like he's about to crack and tell me something but he's fighting so hard to keep it inside.

I took a deep breath, got up and went into the kitchen. Since I'm wide awake I might as well make breakfast. After getting everything out, I started prepping my waffle mix when I felt arms wrap around my waist.

Chris left kisses on my shoulder. "Good morning beautiful."

"Morning." I moved away from him.

"How long have you been up?"

"I haven't been to sleep."

"Why?"

"A lot on my mind."

"Wanna talk about it?"

"Actually I do." I turned to face him. "I've just been feeling like everybody around me is lying."

"Lying about what Jordyn?"

"That's the thing, I don't know. Something just doesn't feel right."

He scratched his head before climbing up on the counter. I sat my bowl on the counter and just stared at him.

"So you think I'm lying to you about something?" He asked.

"I don't think, I know you are. I just can't tell what it is your lying about."

"Jordyn I'm not lying ab-."

"Chris cut the bullshit alright. Whatever it is you need to tell me, do it now before that shit blows up in your face."

He grabbed the bowl of fruit next to him and started eating it. "Alright."

My heart started racing, I didn't know what the hell he was going to say.

"Cliff didn't kill Rhodes...I did." He admitted.

My eyes grew. "What?! Are you fucking with me?"

"No, Cliff forced me to go somewhere with him one night and it was to your warehouse. We get inside and Rhodes sitting in there barely alive. Cliff wanted me to prove that I wasn't a cop by shooting him so I did."

"YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO PROVE SHIT TO HIM! YOU WORK FOR ME CHRIS!"

"I mainly did it for you! I thought about what happened between y'all and it pissed me off."

"You didn't have to do that."

"I did! He deserved it."

"I don't know if you noticed but my brother has something against you! He didn't have you kill him to prove that weren't a cop cause he's still saying that you are. He did that to have something to hang over your head and like an idiot you fucking fell for it!"