Chapter 50: Beau

Beau

It hurt to breathe, every muscle in my body aching the further from him I got.

"We'll get through this," I mumbled to myself, exiting the Uber's car.

My mind still replayed the words he'd said. The hate in his eyes. To him, I was scum at the bottom of his shoes, and it hurt.

What I still didn't understand was the why of it all? And what was worse, I still worried about him.

I shouldn't be. Fuck, I should be wishing him a thousand deaths, but I didn't. Had even sent Jax a text the moment the car came to pick me up. Asked him to be there for his best friend. To check on him.

We'd been fine all morning and into the early afternoon. I had to physically push him out of the kitchen to get some work done. Hendrix had been frisky - playful.

Wanted to touch me every chance he got, and then that phone conference happened.

What went into that room and the man who came out were two very different people.

"About time you arrived, slut," Ruby's voice came from behind me, closer to me than wh