Finding Maze

Chapter 39

Haze Pov.

I sighed as I saw Miley sprawled on the couch in our floor. She had a very bad bruise on her jaw. It looked almost ugly on her and whenever I stared at it, it made me want to murder Caden. I don't know why. I mean like, I feel betrayed but not to that great extent as I had a part of me expecting that.

Hearing Miley talk about Caden like that made me on guard. But the most frustrating thing that makes me want to murder him, is for what he did to Nicole. I wanna hurt him so bad that he doesn't even have a chance in this world. He hurted two most important girls of my gang and I don't want to let him off the hook.

I crouched and looked at Miley, her face hardly pressed on a pillow while she kept another one to her side to stop her from placing her bruised cheek. I carried her in bridal style and placed her on her bed and switched on the fan and left the room.

I went downstairs to find Caleb having a sip of his drink. It was around three in the morning and Caleb was drinking, very unlike him.

"what happened? " I asked.

" no, I just was talking to Caden. To see if he would like reveal anything to me. But he is adamant to speak only to Miley. He said he will tell the truth only to Miley " he said, rolling his eyes.

" she did good " I said.

" yes, she did. Even though we made her life hell, she helped us and saved our gang. I am glad she came "

" let's not get to far, okay? she is only temporary, Caleb, I feel like every one of you are thinking she is permanent, but you guys should know for a fact that she is temporary and I will leave her the minute everything gets over "

" yet you are the one that needs her the most "

I looked at him confused and raised my eyebrows" what do you mean? We all needed her today. I don't think we could have saved the files if it weren't for her"

Caleb shook his head with a chuckle and said "no, it's not  about only today" he glanced at me. " you care about Miley. No matter how many times you make her life hell or want to make her life hell, in the end you care about her. You want her safe"

" or maybe I want her to be perfect before I give her hell" I countered.

"why? "

" a, I ah, I umm I just want her to... " I stammered, lost at words for questions like this.

"You got no reason, because all you are doing is covering up. We know about you, Haze, and we know what you are doing" he said, holding up his hand.

I kept quiet. I didn't feel like that way about Miley. Yes, I spend more time with her. Yes, I have been with her and listened to her but that is because I want to know her, to use her weakness against her. That has been my motive all this while. I was about to open my mouth to tell him, but he continued.

"If you didn't care about her you would have let her go, Haze. You would have let her gone. She is Jenna's niece, Haze. Jenna means a lot more to you, you would never do anything to hurt her. But irrespective of that you took her in, that means Miley.... " he trailed off.

"shut up" I snapped. "I found her annoying, idiotic that she interrupted my gang matter. And we were also in need of another hacker so I decided to take her and teach her a lesson. I don't care about her"

I didn't even want to know how his brain got into this conclusion.

"fine, okay. Whatever " Caleb said and walked away. I sighed and watched him go.

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"Surprisingly you got an invitation " Miley said, as she held out a card in front of me.