Weston
“Who thinking about putting a bullet in now, Wessie?” Lachlan asks, draping his arm over my shoulders and leaning against me. My best friend can read me like a book. Though I’m fairly certain my resting bitch face is none existent, my face shows exactly what I’m thinking.
“You know who, Lockie,” I reply to him. He hums under his breath.
He sighs. “You’re biased since you're my bestie. Car is harmless,” he slurs nonchalantly. I don’t agree with him, but I’m going to tell him that.
Carter was once Carson, his best friend. He isn’t anymore. That man had a new life with a new family, leaving his former life completely behind until now. The fact he is just now trying to insert himself into their lives sets my gut clenching. Something isn’t right and my family I’ve found with Chaos will be the ones to pay the price. I have to protect them.
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Weston, sixteen-year-oldProm night was supposed to be fun, and it was until I came home to check on my baby brothers, who are both almost ten years younger than me. We share the same mother, but their father, the man who raised us, isn’t the guy who donated my DNA. My mom doesn’t even know who the guy was because she was high off her tits and screwing around with multiple guys.I walk into the house to find her off her tits again, clawing at her face in a manic panic while dad is passed out on the floor in a pool of his own vomit with a wet spot on the front of his ratty jeans.Dad is part of the local gang, so that’s the only way he makes any money, which isn’t a lot since he is a low-tier thug. Mom makes most of the money working the night shift at a convenience store, so it’s not a lot.I’m the one who makes the money just to clothe and feed my baby brothers. I’m the one who has raised them si
Weston,sixteen-years-old,continuedI turn back to the dilapidated house with its peeling beige paint and junk littering the front yard. My parents, who intoxicated the most precious thing in this entire world to me, are waiting inside.I walk in to find Jase standing in front of them while Ransom has his guns trained at the back of both their heads.
CarleyWhen I come awake, I’m facing Weston, who is lying atop the covers.Lachlan rolls over with a groan, looking at his phone. He lays back against the pillow. He turns and pulls me against him so that I can feel his early morning hard on. “Go back to sleep,” he murmurs against my shoulder.“Why is West in bed with us?” I whisper to him while gently petting Weston’s chocolate hair.“He had a nightmare. He only climbs into bed with me when he has them and the kids aren’t home,” he says and then yawns.“Does he have them often?” I wonder.“Mostly when we’ve been drinking. If Preston or Stetson are home, then he’ll go snuggle with them like he did when they were little. It took over a year to get him to sleep in his own bed. He was afraid to walk in one morning and find one of them dead. That wouldn’t happen with all of us here, b
Ransom“The bastard son I raise ended up being nothing like me, but in you I see it. You have no empathy for those around you. No pesky feelings of sympathy. You can’t love. Everyone is just a pawn in your life, a useful tool to benefit you. Otherwise, you would have no use for anything. Your psychological diagnosis is all that I’ve hoped for, a true psychopath, like me,” Gerhardt Fuchs says like some demented, proud father.We might share genes since his sperm helped bring me into being, but I much prefer the drunken gambler who raised me as his own. He is my father, not this psychopath before me.“My bastard cried about everything as a child. I had to break him and even then, it didn’t work. He might be a sociopath, but he still had a bleeding heart that needed to be severed.I cut him off. I removed him from my board altogether u
LachlanI was just ‘good boy’d’ like I was a dog by my girlfriend. WTF. I’m flabbergasted. I don’t even know how to process that or how it made me feel. Someone has not praised me like that in my life. I’m used to Jase saying that to Ransom but not having used it on me. “Breathe, Lockie,” Weston says with a chuckle when he takes the door from me. I take a deep breath now that I notice my lungs were burning for air.
Weston The sea water is cold but exactly what I needed this morning. One side of South Madre Island is the gulf, and the other is the ocean. The ocean side has the best waves, which is where I currently am sitting on my board and bobbing along, waiting for the larger waves as the sun rises. It’s so beautiful out here. I miss this, just not the rest of the memories that I have of my time spent growing up here. I have been raising my brothers for almost ten years now with the help of Chaos. It’s been that long since I’ve had a getaway without them. We usually bring Preston
CarleyI feel as though I’m living in an imaginary world. I’m with my boys and they’re so attentive to me on the beach that can feel glares from other women as they pass by. My men haven’t even noticed since all their attention is solely on me and each other. Here I am in my high-waisted swim bottoms with a flowy top that covers my body and I’m getting more attention from five smoking hot guys with their muscles and tattoos on show than any woman along the strip of private beaches. Lachlan, Arson, and Ransom are covered from neck to toe in tattoos. Rans
Ransom My phone rings and it’s Ryder’s number that pops up. I answer with my name the same way he does. We might not be blood-related, but the man I share my genes with is the same man who raised him. “We might need to put Lachlan on paper as Carley’s husband when you all get married,” Ryder says as if we are all already engaged, and we didn’t just reconnect three months ago. “Why’s that?” I ask him curiously. “His mother is at it again. This time, she somehow has his signature. I found a filed form saying if Lachlan isn’t married before the age of thirty, he gives up his inheritance to his mother. If he spent any of it, he then has to pay that money to her.” “Good thing he has spent none of it then. He only spends his earnings on our jobs,” I say, unhappy that the gold-digger is at it again. When will Lock be free of that abusive, selfish woman? I wonder. “He has a few years, but honestly, the sooner the bett