Society Girls: Neveah by Crystal Perkins

Author:Crystal Perkins [Perkins, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Dylan

To say things are tense when we walk back into the room is so far from an understatement that I don’t even have a word for it. It’s just bad. I know it, and I own my part in it. I can justify it in every way possible, but what I did was wrong. Never mind that I did it out of loyalty and a vow. Those things may explain it to everyone, but they don’t excuse anything.

“Are you okay, Nev?” Matt asks her, getting up and walking to us.

“I don’t know. How about you?”

“I don’t know, either.”

“We’ve got to see my mom.”

“I know. I already called and told her I need to see her and Sully. I would’ve sent a jet for them, but it’s faster for them to fly commercially.”

“It’s not safe,” Sadiq tells him.

Matt ignores him, so Nev answers. “We’ve all flown commercially to Vegas from time to time. Nothing has changed to the outside world, so if they’re not safe now, they never were.”

“No one is ever truly safe.”

“I’ve taken care of their safety for all of these years while you played scary hermit neighbor.”

“That isn’t fair, Matthew.”

“And what you did to him is?” Reina says, rising to face him.

“I didn’t realize how deeply it would affect him,” Sadiq says, looking away from her. “I am so very sorry. For both of you.”

“Would you have changed your plan if you’d known?” Nev asks, I already know the answer, and I’m pretty sure she does too.

“No. It wasn’t my plan—I had to keep us all safe.”

“You made me question who I was…what kind of man I was.”

“It was war. You were taught to kill.”

“Bad men and women. I was taught to kill them, not an innocent man.”

“There are always innocent casualties when war is upon us.”

“Now we all know that casualty was me.”

“I have nothing to offer you except my apology.”

Matt nods. “To me, maybe. To Aqeelah and your children, you better be prepared to offer a hell of a lot more.”

“Bringing them here is a mistake. It could get us all killed.”

“We won’t let that happen,” Reina tells him. “Your rise from the dead doesn’t change who they are to us. They are Matt’s family, and Nev is part of the Society family as well. We don’t take that lightly.”

“My daughter does not belong with you.”

“Really? You know me so well after being gone for more than half my life?”

“You are not a killer.”

“No, but I am someone who wants to make a difference in the world. You have no say in what I do, or the job I take. You lost that right the day you faked your death.”

“Matt groomed you for this. He tricked you.”

“Shut up,” Nev says, grabbing Matt’s hand to keep him from going for her father. No one but me would try to stop him, and it wouldn’t end well. “Matt may have given me access to training, but I always had a choice. He never tricked me, or chose for me.

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