Chapter 29
Lacy’s POV
“What about Yve and Tyler? Are they family?” Kol countered, pointing at Tyler and Yve. “What about Jim? Did you want to discuss with them too?” he finished with a hint of resentment
and mock in his voice.
Jim was quiet with a complicated expression on his face clearly not expecting the turn of events as well. He gave me a
sympathetic look when our eyes met.
“They are! They… are like a family to me” Mom cried
“They have seen me through some of the hardest times of my life.” I watched Tyler pat her back again,
“Fuck! I’m done here” Kol harshly stood up, his chair scratching the floor. He kicked the innocent chair to vent his frustration. His outburst was a relief. His anger was a release, much like how his ability to express emotions had always been a release for me when I couldn’t express mine.
Everyone watched him leave with different thoughts and emotions on their faces. Kol stopped by the glass bar counter
and grabbed an expensive–looking bottle of whiskey.
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“Kol,” David was the first to finally react, he called out in a
warning tone.
“David,” my jaw slacked when Kol shot right back at his father. It
wasn’t the fact that he called his father’s name, but the rude and
arrogant tone he used.
“It was a great dinner with the ‘family“” One could easily discern
the sarcastic tone, especially on the last word.
“I wish you two a Happy Divorce” With that, Kol strode off
without another glance back. Jim gave Melina an apologetic
shrug and smile before going after Kol.
After Kol left, the silence was deafening. I blinked, staring at my
plate, swallowing my food. Just when I thought Kol and Jim
were the last two people I ever wanted to see in this world, I
suddenly wished they would come back. I couldn’t say a word.
“Sweetheart?” Mom asked bringing me out of my tangling thoughts. I barely nodded.
“How do you feel about this?” she struggled to ask.
“I…I don’t know. I think I need some time to process this” I
stuttered back a reply.
Rewind this moment! No, delete this scene from my life.
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I just wanted to spend the summer with my family. At first, Mom.
announced her long departure, I tried to be okay with it. Only for
her to drop another shocking piece of information that the
family would be separating.
“I will go talk to Kol “I excused myself and hurried out of the
restaurant. It was really a memorable dinner and I didn’t want to
spend another minute in there.
Soon, I caught up with Kol and Jim at the stairs. They both
turned around as soon they heard the clacking of my heels. I
swallowed when I got to them, their tall and robust physique
easily dwarfed my petite self.
I stopped a few frets away from them, getting too close would
make me feel a bit intimidated by their height.
“This is too ridiculous. More like some sick joke” Kol huffed in
annoyance and took a swig from the whiskey bottle. Anger
twisted his exquisite features. At least in that moment, the self-
satisfied, arrogant mask had come off. He was his true, raw self,
not the jerk he always was when he was around me.
“I know”
Kol moved closer, his cologne mixed with the stench of the
whiskey invading my nostrils. His annoyance was suddenly
nonexistent, his eyes had darkened. He looked down at me with
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a smirk, that overly familiar sly smirk.
“Come to my room, let’s get fucked up” he suggested.
“Now is not the time for jokes. We should talk” I tried to brush
away his suggestion.
Nothing good comes whenever he has that look.
“We could still talk in bed. You, him, and I” Kol replied pointing
at the three of us as he spoke.
“It would be more fun” he added.
“Jesus Kol”
“Comeon. You are not my sister anymore, so why not?”
“You’re being a bastard.”
“I see you haven’t taken off your goody shoes. Still as rigid and
stupid as usual”
Just when I thought my heart couldn’t anymore hurt, it did again.
His words hurt. My eyes trailed over to Jim speechlessly, hoping to find some sort of consoling in his eyes.
Nothing, it was hard to read. My knuckles were white with how
hard I was gripping my skirt to stop myself from crumbling in
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front of these two jerks.
They left, walking away from me. I felt like a fool, a total loser.
“Fuck you” I screamed in frustration. Kol stopped walking
causing Jim to stop as well. He turned around and tilted his
head looking down at me.
“That’s a good idea” he stated with a mocking thoughtful gaze.
“What do you think?” he then asked Jim.
“Kol, behave. Don’t be mean. Leave her alone” Jim still had
some sense in his thick skull after all.
Kol didn’t put up any resistance and let Jim pull him away. I was
left there at the stairs, fisting my skirt while panting hard from
how angry was.
I let him do that again. He stepped on me and went away freely
again, I probably could never win Kol.
I could only stand there and be angry at him for being such a jerk to me. I could only blame myself and be angry at myself for giving my first night to such a jerk, only to be toyed with.
I lay on the bed restless with tonight’s event on my mind. With our parents‘ divorce, I should be glad that I didn’t have to see him again, but I wasn’t. Instead, that made me feel hopeless.
