Invincible by Beck J.L

Author:Beck, J.L. [Beck, J.L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: J.L. Beck
Published: 2015-03-31T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Devon

THE WAY SHE looked at me made me wonder if she feared me. If, after everything, she was afraid? Afraid of me. It was never my intention. It was never my idea to pull her down this road. Wasn’t this the very reason I left?

She was a breathing reminder of the good I was capable of doing. She made up for all the people I had killed, for all the blood that marked my hands. Good guys and bad guys had died at my hands. People I cared about had died. What if it were she who died one day? What if she was the victim, and what if it was I who had to be the one to take her out?

“Devon.” Her voice was soft, reminding me of silk as it hit my ears. I couldn’t pull myself from the madness though. If she knew what was under all the jokes and the looks, she wouldn’t look at me like she always had. She wouldn’t see me like a knight in shining armor.

“DEVON!” This time, when she said my name, it was panicked. It was as if she were afraid she couldn’t reach me. What she didn’t understand was she couldn’t. No one could.

“Just leave me alone.” I could hear her cries as I came around the corner. Why did he always pick on her? Why didn’t he just let her go?

“I know you’re with Devon now.” His voice was a sneer. He didn’t realize how that one single comment caused my blood to boil. It didn’t matter who she was with—even if it were me he claimed she was with—either way, she wasn’t doing shit wrong.

“Devon and I are just friends. You know how my mom feels about me dating. It shouldn’t matter anyway because you and I aren’t anything either.” She tried to stick up for herself, but her voice was weak.

“Garret, man, leave her alone.” I couldn’t stand there and watch their interaction and not say anything any longer. It was as if a switch turned on in my mind. They both turned around and looked at me with shock in their eyes. Tegan had never been one for confrontation so why she was talking to him, even explaining herself to him. It didn’t make sense to me.

“Leave her alone? Devon boy, she was mine before she was ever yours.” The way he was talking about Tegan as if she was an object made my stomach roll. She was his before she was ever mine? Mine?

“This isn’t elementary school, Garret. She isn’t a toy you left on the playground only to come back and pick her up to be used and abused all over again.” Tegan had yet to say a single word. Instead, she looked between the two of us in confusion.

“She is mine. Has been mine since the start and always will be.” His words were meant to shake me. Rattle the deepest parts of my being. What he didn’t realize was you couldn’t break or shake something that was already broken.

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