Jax: A New Adult Dark Romance (The Heights Saga) by E. M. Moore

Author:E. M. Moore [Moore, E. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-19T05:00:00+00:00

16

In the supply closet, I could fool myself into thinking Jax is still here for me, but the moment we exit, he disappears. Considering the shit I’ve done to him, I try not to take it personally but it became more obvious that I broke the Jax I used to know when I had to wipe my own tears.

The Ring is even busier tonight than last night. Still, it’s not difficult to find Leenie in the crowd. She spots me in the mess of bodies as I walk toward her seat at the bar. The look on her face says she’s already appraised me and is thinking of running recon. “You look like you need a drink.” She flags down a waiter and then uses a napkin to wipe at my face before handing it to me.

“You’re probably the nicest person I’ve ever met,” I tell her as I take it from her and run it underneath my eyes. It’s a good thing I didn’t have makeup on or I’d be a mess.

She sighs. “Hardly. I’m not really on your side, Sadie. I’m on Jax’s.” She takes a sip of her own drink as we wait for mine. “The thing is, you’re also in trouble and,” she emphasizes, “Jax is too stubborn for his own good to see what’s in front of his face. So, do you want to talk about it?”

The waiter stops by with a drink. I peer at the slight green concoction, and Leenie tips it toward my face. I take a sip, a sour flavor coating the back of my throat. I give her a nod of appreciation while still avoiding her question. I haven’t really ever had a girl to talk to about shit. The girls at Psycho’s place would just as soon rat you out than fix your makeup. “I don’t know how to do this,” I confess.

“Well, lucky for you, I have a history of being a really good friend. Why don’t you start with this asshole who mistreats you?”

The Ring hardly seems like a good place to have a heart-to-heart but I like the anonymity of it. Plus, the guys aren’t around and everyone else is so caught up in their own stuff that they’re not even paying attention to us. “After I got kicked out of the Heights, he found me,” I say, knowing that’s only the last stroke of a painting that’s taken hours and hours and hours to complete. “He was the only avenue I had to put a roof over my head and food in my belly. I didn’t see the monster underneath for a very long time.”

Looking back, I understand now that I’d been groomed to be his accomplice from the beginning. He plied me with talk of love and then manipulated me into doing things I never would’ve done if I’d had the choice. Knowing Psycho, he planned it that way all along. I thought we were the Flat’s power couple, and we are, just not in ways I want to be.

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