The room became dangerously quiet because everybody knew what kind of mood Rhett was entering.
The ugly one.
The one built from six years of resentment.
"She didn't attend our graduation.” His voice hardened. "Remember that?"
Cole looked down and Mason looked away.
Rhett laughed bitterly. “Of course you remember."
The memory hit all of them. Mason was mostly frustrated because she had promised she'll be there.
The hope she'd show up and the realization she wasn't coming. Rhett pointed toward the door.
"Then we got patched." His voice rose. "The biggest damn day of our lives where she promised heaven and earth to give us our road names." His chest heaved.
"Did she care?"
Nobody answered because they remembered that too. Getting patched into the Reapers Kings.
Standing beside thei
