Chapter 24
How can you call yourself a man when you’ve forced yourself on a woman? You’re not even a human being when you commit such shit. You’re lower than that and there’s no way out of this but Edwin got a way out.
The thoughts of what Carmen would do pops up in my mind.
She would help her and make sure that Edwin gets his but I don’t want to help someone who killed her.
It isn’t going to be a random switcheroo on it, suddenly assuming that Juliana is clear and I have to forgive her but I will help her fight the man who abused her because one thing I do not like is a man that is weak enough to put his hands on a woman who cannot fight him back.
I already thought that he was a loser but this is beyond that.
Taking a deep breath, I sit on the bed that’s been giving me back pains yet I haven't focused on it because I’ve been too busy wanting to take out Juliana.
“How is this going to happen?” She says, taking me out of my focus of everything else but here.
“Don't worry about it, you’ll know in time. For now, are we done here or do you think you need time to get it the fuck together in this small fucking incompatible town?”
The harsh reaction from my voice isn’t personal to Juliana, no it is towards this town and the many wrongs they committed. Now that I can focus on other things instead of Juliana for the moment, I pull my phone out and text Cassius.
Cas
Me: I need the mayor of this stupid ass town’s number.
Cassius: yeah, got it.
Me: where’s the retired sheriff that was working on my brother’s case?
Me: Who is the new one working now?
Cassius: New Sheriff is his daughter that changed her last name but it’s his daughter, I checked.
Cassius: Sara Johnson.
Me: Thanks.
“Get dressed.” I tell Juliana and she makes a point at making me look at her diner uniform. “No, you’re not going into work. Wear something else, we’re going to pay the sheriff a visit.”
Juliana rolls her eyes at me and she thinks I didn’t catch it because she turned around but it wasn’t fast enough.
After waiting some more minutes for Juliana to change, she appears out of the bathroom with jeans and a white shirt.
“What?” she asks as I stare back at her with a cocked brow.
“So when you ran away, you didn’t think to take some money to buy a better closet?
” I stop her from asking me a question with a hand and shake my head.
“Forget it, you’re living in this fucking dump, I can’t expect you to do much with your money, I expect better from someone who was raised with money.
Isn’t your family almost as rich as mine?
” Emphasizing on the, almost, just to taunt her.
Juliana scoffs but then catches herself by clearing her throat. I heard her anyway, so what was the point of covering it up?
“Is that a dig at my family? Plus, why would my family want to take me back after everything that went down and how it went down? They weren’t even there for my court case.” Juliana clears her throat and looks away.
“Family is family, through good or bad. I had my fallouts with mine but one thing they’re going to do is have my back in my time of need. That is what your family should’ve done. Did you kill one of them?”
“Who? My family? No.” She answers as if the question was offensive.
“Okay then, there’s no reason they shouldn’t be fighting me and trying to put me through hell to get to you. Even if they wouldn’t have won because I am Alaric Crowne. Do you know why it was so easy to get to you, Juli?”
“Because you controlled everything I did inside?” There’s an edge to her voice and it causes me to smirk.
“I didn’t control every single thing you did.
I controlled how happy you tried to become in there,” I shrug.
“I’m not going to pretend that I didn’t do that.
But see, it’s because you had no one in your corner.
They all let you down and you blame yourself for the fuck ups in your life. Let this be a lesson to you.”
“Does that mean you’re going to let me go? Lesson learned?” She asks and I chuckle.