29. I Need You

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A/N- edited only once. Beware.

Chapter 29

            Coda POV

            I am exhausted.

            There are so many things running through my head at the moment- Hazel, her family, Cordero and the fact he always got what he wanted-

            I stiffen and I have to try to curb my thoughts away from the gloomy thoughts of death and Cordero winning this.

            With every beginning of a plan I formatted, I would always come up with a possible ending that could go wrong.

            I was never like this. I was never this indecisive to make a plan.

            It’s her my mind tells me as I struggle to shove it to the back of my head.

            If one of my plans went wrong, I would be more okay if something happened to me than if something happen to her.

            Parts of me try to convince myself that the only reason why I want to protect her is to reenact the alternative ending to Ridge’s death: me saving him.

            No matter what I tell myself though, I know that this deep and fierce feeling to protect her goes beyond the feelings of my failure to protect my little brother.

            I was falling for her.

            I was falling for Hazel, the girl who hated thunder, talked with fire in her eyes and was fiercely- almost stupidly- loyal to those she cared about.

            That’s why I had no doubt that if I was in danger, Hazel would do whatever she could to help me. Even if I screamed at her to run until I turned blue in the face, she wouldn’t listen to me.

            Unless i-

            The sharp ring in the air is enough to raise the hair in the back of my head as I reach for my phone, snapping it open.

            “What!” I bark, clenching the phone within my hand.

            “Tone,” Cordero tsks. “Again, with the tone, son.”

            “Don’t call me son,” I snarl, all my weariness and fear resurging to morph into something stronger: hate.

            -Hate for the man that had given me a home but in the end was threatening to take everything from me.

            -Hate for the man that had caused my brother to feel inadequate.

            -hate for the fact that I had stupidly brought Hazel into all of this.

            “I have given you everything and you best not forget that,” Cordero snarls back, the hint of impatience in his voice refreshing to me. I was finally getting under the chinks of his ‘too cool and powerful’ armor.

            “I’ve lost more than I’ve ever gotten from you,” I ground out, shaking with anger. I wanted to smash the phone into the table, my bad shoulder aching from my tense posture.

            “Then you won’t have a problem when I kill the girl for causing all these problems for me,” Cordero says smoothly, the edge in voice clear.

            The growl that leaves my lips next is feral, a sound that had traveled from my lungs on impulse as soon as he mentioned Hazel.

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