Taking Shots (Assassins, #1)(158)
“Don’t compare him to me!” Shea yelled, “I love you, I would never hurt you and you know that, why are you doing this? Why won’t you believe me?”
“Because YOU KISSED MY MOTHER FUCKING SISTER! My sister! My worst enemy. I can’t ever look at you!”
“I didn’t kiss her! She f*cking kissed me!”
“Whatever, your lips touched hers, you had her in your arms, oh my god, why am I even explaining myself,” she said as she moved around him, picking up more of her shoes, and throwing them in bags.
“Elli please, I swear to you, I don’t want her, I want you, please,” Shea went around, bending down to her level, trying to get her to look at him. She didn’t know why he was trying to get in her face, didn’t he know that she was libel to knock him the hell out! “Elli I would never do anything to cause you to leave me. I love you baby, please, stop, let’s talk.”
“There is nothing to talk about, Shea. You are a liar, an *, and I don’t want nothing to do with you.”
“You don’t mean that, stop for a minute,” he said trying to stop her but she went by him, packing more things.
“Leave me alone, Shea.”
“No, please Elli, I’ll do anything.”
“There is nothing you can do to get that f*cking image out of my head, get away from me,”
“Let me try, listen to me!” he yelled, but she ignored him, continuing to pack.
“You know I should have known no man is like you. Now I know it was all an act, you were probably trying to ensure you have a way to my money huh? Being with me gave you a one way ticket to the Assassins, God you disgust me!”
“Now you know that is not true! I don’t want the Assassins; I told you I wanted to teach kids!”
“Yeah, I bet that was a lie, too, you’re full of it. You just want my money, my team, my everything, but let me tell you something you *, you ain’t gonna get it from me, and you sure ain’t gonna get it from Victoria. She don’t have shit!” Elli sneered as she threw shirt after shirt into her suitcase.
“I don’t want your money, I have my own! I want you, and you’re f*cking crazy to think differently!”
“Yeah, crazy to ever fall for your bullshit! You are just like every other * in the world, hell you and Justin could be best friends.”
“Well you stop comparing me to him and get your head out of your ass! You’ve been making me pay for his mistake for months. I looked past it, dealt with your craziness, loved you, but you can’t even listen to me for a minute!” Elli sent him a look of death before he went on, “If you actually calmed down and listened to me, you would find that I didn’t kiss your sister, she kissed me, and before I could even do anything about it, she slapped me! Making it look like I kissed her, she played me!”
“Why were you with her anyways? No, don’t tell me I don’t care!”
“She went to help me with something; I didn’t know she was planning this!”
“Whatever, you’re a liar. I don’t give a shit what you have to say!”
“Stop, you are freaking out on me! Calm down! Give me a chance to explain!”
“Fuck you! Get away from me!”
Elli stormed past him but he grab her by her arm, causing her to jerk to a stop, “Elli, please-“
The crack of Elli’s hand against his face stopped any words from forming. Hell, it stopped everything. Elli just stood there staring up at him as traitorous tears rolled down her cheeks. She had never thought she would ever bring her hand against Shea’s face, Justin’s yes; he was a complete ass but not Shea. She loved him so much, and she felt like he had taken her heart and hit it with his hockey stick, shattering it in a million pieces.
He took a deep breath, moving his hand up to his red cheek as he looked down at Elli. “Don’t touch me,” she cried as she walked past him, moving around the room, grabbing more things, her iPod, her picture frames of the kids, everything. He could keep the ones of them, at that moment she wanted to forget everything that ever happened between them. She cleaned out the bathroom and when she came out, he was sitting on the bed, watching her. When she saw the tears rolling down his cheeks, she almost broke, but instead she moved to the closet grabbing her suitcases full of her clothes and taking them downstairs, after three trips, she only had a few more bags to grab. She couldn’t make the same mistakes she made with Justin, she just couldn’t. When Elli went back into his room, he stood there with the most awful look on his face.
“Elli, the things you have said, they aren’t true and you know it, you’re making the biggest mistake of your life right now.”
“The only mistake I ever made was falling in love with you.”
It was like she had hit him again, the way he jerked back as the tears made their way down his beautifully sculpted face. It made her sick that she thought he was beautiful, gorgeous, but that was what he was; a playboy. He would never change.
“If you walk out that f*cking door without talking this over with me first, we’re done.”
She bent down, picking up the bags that she had left before looking up at him with all the anger and hurt in the world, in her eyes, “No Shea, we were done when you kissed my mother f*cking sister.”
With that, she was gone, and even though it hurt so much she couldn’t breathe, she knew she would never see him again.