Beautiful Chaos (Steel Roses Book 4) by Samantha Bee

Author:Samantha Bee [Bee, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen Ryder

There’s an immediate shift in the room, a moment before all hell breaks loose.

Scar gets this lost look in her eyes and everything goes into slow motion. She doesn’t realize it yet, but all eyes are on her as her fingers tighten on whatever she has in her hands. Even Rachel pauses in her work as Scar picks up the discarded glass on the desk and brings it to her nose to smell.

There are no words to describe what happens next. The pain emanating from Scar as she launches first the glass across the room before moving in on Romano. My hands sweat and my heart races as I watch her drive the blade into his stomach.

Nothing about this is like her at all. Scar is always in control, even when she seems her most chaotic, she never releases her tightly wound hold on her control. Now, we know why.

I move forward, and Declan grabs my arm, preventing me from interfering with Scar, but that’s not who I’m after. I nudge him off and wrap my arm around Rachel’s elbow and slowly pull her out of Scar’s vicinity. She’s no longer aware of anything but Romano. None of us can know what to expect next.

Rachel turns wide eyes to me. Seeing Scar like this is a shock to all of us, but Rachel especially. She’s never seen Scar even the slightest bit broken, but here she is falling to pieces in front of us. Discarding the last remnants of the girl she once was as evidence of that past is scattered to the ground.

Luca grabs the first two polaroid photos as she discards them and my chest heaves with the pain of knowing what they contain. He doesn’t look at them, silently slipping them into his pocket as he keeps his eyes on Scar. There’s only three of them. I don’t know if she could bear anymore than that.

I’m not sure she can bear the three that she did find.

I meet Luca’s eyes, but he looks as helpless as I feel. It feels like that night in the van all over again. It happened so fucking quickly this time. Too fast for any of us to react. And now? Now, it’s already too late. She hasn’t realized it yet, but Romano is as good as dead.

Scar didn’t stop when her blade found its new home in his stomach. She’s completely gutted him, hitting probably every vital organ on her way. The raspy wet cough as he sputters to answer her questions makes me think she may have even nicked a lung.

He was too far gone to answer even a single question the moment she dug her blade in.

I can see the moment she realizes he’s gone, taking the answers she so desperately craves with him. For a second, I think she’s about to drop to the ground and cry but am startled when she jerks back, slipping in the blood. I catch her, tightly gripping her arms and setting her back on her feet.

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