Sloane
"There's nothing to talk about Liam." I say, as I stand outside of my parents house out back. I'd stepped out to get a few moments of fresh air, to get away from him, and he couldn't give me two god damn seconds. He followed me right out.
"sloane, Listen to me" he says and reaches for me and I jerk back.
"Do NOT..touch me..you NEVER get to touch me again, do you understand?" I hiss as I glare at him and his jaw ticks, his brows pinching. If it were just me and him here, I'd be scared, and I probably wouldn't be so bold, but he wouldnt hit me, not here. He wouldnt grab me and throw me against a wall or shake me , not with everyone right inside, able to see us through the glass doors where we stands.
"Sloan, just, fucking listen to me" he nearly growls.
"No." I bite out, lifting my chin as I glare at him. "I don't have to listen to shit Liam. I'm done listening to you, I'm done letting you try to gaslight me and-"
"Gaslight?" He huffs a laugh and rolls his eyes. "What are you, a feminst now? Everything a guy says or does is wrong, everything I saw is me gaslighting you?"
My jaw drops. Liam is a mean guy. I'd never seen it. Not till he "had" me. Not till he thought I was "locked down". Then he started to change, then he started with all his bullshit. Putting hands on me, saying mean things, saying dumb shit like this, because he was too much of a little fucking boy , and had shit for fucking brains.
"Everything YOU do and say is wrong. You're the problem Liam. Not me." I glare at him.
"There's no point in talking to you. There's nothing you can say to take back all the shit you did." I say.
"I told you I was sorry. She wasn't even-"
"You STILL think it's ONLY about her!" I raise my voice, then cast a glance to the glass doors, my mother and his mother averting their eyes, pretending they aren't watching us. Everyone else , also sipping on drinks at the table acting as if there i'snt a million pounds of tension in the air.
I shift my stance, my back to the window as I face Liam.
"You hurt me. Not just by sleeping with another woman...but you put your fucking hands on me Liam. I didn't deserve that, any of it. You were physically and verbally abus-"
"I did not fucking abuse you." he snarls through his teeth, and my cheeks heat with rage. Was he fucking kidding?"
"Grow up Sloane. Did I leave a fucking bruise? No. You were out of line the way you were talking to me and I handled it. Didn't i?" he puffs his fucking chest and I dig my nails into my palms as I make tiny fists.
"You HANDLED it? Bye hitting me?! By shaking me!"
"You're not a fucking child Sloane. So what, I shook you? I could've done so much worse. And I didnt hit you, it was a fucking slap."
Oh. My. God.
"You're disgusting." I say shaking my head. "I can't believe I loved you."
"If you loved me, you'd have talked to me with respect" he says.
"YOU WERE CHEATING ON ME!" I nearly scream. Freezing. His eyes going wide.
"Real nice Sloane." he growls and the back door opens.
"What's going on?" I hear Callum ask, stepping outside, shutting the door behind him and I want to fucking cry I'm so angry.
"Why dont you mind your own business?" Liam hisses.
"Because you two are causing a scene. Now what is going on?" Callum asks.
"Nothing. Go inside." Liam says.
"Sloane?" Callum asks, ignoring his brother.
"Of course you'd take her fucking side." Liam says, pouting like a fucking child.
"Take her side? I don't even know what's happening. Maybe you need to go cool off a minute." Callum says to him, and steps around me, placing himself between me and Liam.
"Why? So you can finally make your move?" Liam snarls. I tense and Callum does too.
"You're angry. I don't know why, nor do I care, but you're not going to stand here and try to insult me Liam. Go cool the fuck off." Callum warns.
"Oh, fuck you. You think I don't see it? The way you fucking look at her? You've ALWAYS wanted what's mine. Always. My grades, my friends, my fucking girl." Liam snarls and Callum is just shaking his head.
"You think I don't know that you've wanted to fuck her ever since we were teenagers?" Liam gives a humorless laugh. "You think I don't know the way SHE used to look at you too?"
"yeah...well" Liam says, stepping up to his brother. "Everytime you look at her, you're gonna have to imagine her on her fucking back with her legs spread, for ME" Liam growls.
"Liam!" I yell.
"Everytime you look at her...you think about all the filthy fucking shit she let me do to her." Liam snarls. "Cause, you're little sugarplum?" he sneers. "Is a certified whore with the things she let me do to-"
I scream as Callum punches Liam right in the nose.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Liam says, grabbing his nose, blood already seeping from it, and onto his hands. There's commotion inside , and everyone is coming out side.
"What the hell is going on?!" Liam's father yells and his mother shrieks as she goes over to Liam.
"You're son is a disrespectful little fucking prick. That's what's going on." Callum says and turns to me, as chaos errupts around us. Liam snarling, his father and mine both holding him back, his mother crying.
Callum's hands cup my face as I just stand there in shock. "Let's get you out of here." he says gently and I nod.
"Of course she'll leave with you! Make sure you show him that thing I like that I taught you!" Liam yells as his mother and mine gasp. My sister is yelling at him. Shouting at him to shut the fuck up. Her husband holding her back as Callum guides me through the doors.
"YOU'RE A FUCKING WHORE SLOANE!" Liam yells and tears falls as my father yells at Liam, and his mother is sobbing.
Callum shuts the glass door and pushes me gently through the house, away from the commotion, and grabs his keys.
"You want to leave?" he asks me and I nod , swiping my cheeks, and he grabs my face, kissing the top of my head.
"Let's go then." he whispers.
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"Do you want to talk about it?" he asks softly as he starts to drive. I shake my head, arms wrapped around myself as I look out the window.
"I've never seen him act like that." Callum says.
"I have." I answer. My head turning, Callum looks at me briefly, then turns his head back to the road and reaches his hand over and takes mine and I lock my fingers through his.
We drive to the large park where we all used to hang out at night as teenagers. Callum turns up the heat in his car, reaching in the back of his car he pulls forward a hoodie from the back seat.
"Here. Put this on." he says.
I take it, undo my seatbelt and pull it on, then pull it down, to my knees. It smells like him, and fits like a baggy dress, and has a sherpa lining which instantly starts to warm me.
"We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." he says and I take a breath and lean my head back. Everyone was going to find out the truth now anyways. Michelle had started screaming at him, she wasn't going to keep his cheating a secret for me now after what he said.
"He cheated on me." I say.
"He what?" Callum asks, sounding genuinely confused. I just nod as I look out the window.
"Michelle knows. She's the only one that knows why I broke things off." I say.
"Why wouldnt you tell your parents, my parents, why would you let them think it was all on you?" He asks.
"I just thought it was easier that way. And...I was embarrassed." I shrug.
"Jesus Sloane." he says and I just sit there and look at the playground, dusted in a light layer of snow.
"After we got engaged, he just...changed. He became a different person. Like, I was just a game that he'd won, and he'd gotten bored or something. God, he was such a dick. And i just...let him be one. Because i didnt understand why he was acting like that. I thought it had to be my fault..something i did...so I stuck it out."
"Did he hurt you?" Callum asks me, and I can already feel the rage boiling off him.
I don't want to lie. But, still, I dont want to make more drama. But, I decide i'm done lying for Liam.
"The worst he ever did was slap me." I say.
"WHAT?" Callum shifts up in his seat and reaches for the gear shift as if he's ready to drive right back there. I place my hand over his.
"Don't. I don't want to go back there right now." I say with a plea and his hand is fucking shaking.
"It's what we were arguing about out back. He'd...gotten angry, that I'd accused him of cheating...even though...come to find out, he was. " I say.
"Then sometimes, he would just pick fights, and if I tried to defend myself, or didnt agree with him, then he'd shake me and as me if I was stupid. Things like that. "
"I'm going to fucking kill him." Callum seethes, his hands lifting , pushing through his hair, then he grabs his steering wheel, his knuckles going white.
I reach over. "I'm fine." I say and gently place my hand over his.
"I shouldve left him the first time he ever shook me like that. I shouldve left when he started being mean to me for no real reason. but, i stayed, because, I thought...I thought I loved him..and I wanted him to go back to the way he was. But....like I said...I think he just want to "Get" me...then lost any real interest...he just wanted to put a ring on my finger, walk me down the aisle, just so nobody else could have me I guess." I say with a shrug.
Callum turns his head and looks at me.
"You should have told me Sloane. You know I would have-"
"I know." I say and rub his hand, peeling his fingers off the steering wheel until he relaxes his fingers and places his hands in his lap.
"But that's why I didnt tell you, it's why I didnt tell anyone...I just didnt want the extra headache of causing all this extra bullshit, ya know?" I ask and he shakes his head.
"He caused it. Not you." he says through a clenched jaw.
"You know what I mean. I know it's not my fault. But....our families are so close....I just didnt want everyone to get upset. He didnt deserve for me to keep it a secret..but it wasn't for him, it was for me, for everyone else. I only told Michelle about the cheating, I never told her about the...other stuff. She would've lost her mind and spilled my secret. " I say.
"As she should have. He doesnt deserve a bit of fucking decency from anyone anymore Sloane." Callum says.
"I agree. But, what's done is done, and the engagement is off, and I'm never going back to him. So there's no point in any of them knowing, it changes nothing. I'm sure Michelle has already told them he cheated. So , that's enough. They know the truth now so-"
"No. They don't. My father would kill him if he found out he hit you. Or laid his hands on you in anyways, and my mother...god my mother would.."
"She'd be sad Callum." I say and he looks at me. I shake my head. "I dont want anyone else to hurt over what happened between me and Liam."
"They deserve to know the piece of shit their son is." he argues.
I couldn't disagree with him, he was right. They deserved to know, I just didnt want to be a part of the reason his parents would probably disown their son. Cheating was one thing, but laying your hands on a woman? Besides my own parents, Max and Adele O'Connor were the most in love couple I'd ever seen. Liam and Callum's father treated their mother the way every girl dreams of. He looked at her with stars in his eyes everyday, as if he was falling in love with her again everyday. They were the sweetest people, and kind, and they would be heartbroken to know Liam did something like that.
"You can tell them." I say. "After christmas. Just...wait until after Christmas." I say. He nods. It wasn't a big ask. Christmas is tomorrow. "I just....their Christmas is already ruined, I dont want to make it worse." I say.
His nostrils flare. I know he wants to blame it on Liam, but he knows what I mean.
"He'd dead to me." Callum says, jaw clenching.
"He's your brother Callum, you can't-"
"Sloane...don't." he says and his head turns to me. "Don't tell me how I should feel towards him. Please don't do that. Don't ask me to not hate him for what he did to you. He's not my fucking brother. Not anymore." she says and I take a deep breath and just look at him.
"Okay." I say, not willing to argue. He was right. He got to feel however he wanted. He was betrayed by Liam too. Everyone was. He wasn't the person any of us thought he was.
"God Sloane. I wish you would have come to me." he says. I just shake my head.
"It's not your job to protect me Callum, I-"
"It's ALWAYS been my job." he says, his eyes on mine and my breath catches.
"Callum." I say his name, not sure why, but the way he's looking at me right now, is making me feel a million different things.
"You've always been mine Sloane. I think we both know that." he says and I my breath catches again and my nipples fucking harden hearing him say that and I shiver slightly.
"I just....I wanted to be a good best friend to you brother...you were his little sister...and Liam...I knew he liked you ...and he was the first of us to ever be vocal about it...so...it was always...hands off.....but...you were still mine Sloane. In my mind, you've always been mine. So yeah...you ARE mine to protect. Always. " he says and I just look at him.
"Callum." I say his name again and he undoes his seatbelt , with his eyes on me.
"Come here Sugarplum." he whispers and my fucking panties soak themselves, hearing him say it like that, while looking at me like he's ready to fucking devour me.
I don't hesitate, I lean over and he groans softly as I start to climb over and onto his lap, having to hike up my skirt to allow my legs to spread enough to climb over and then straddle him.
"fuck" he mutters under his breath as I settle on his lap, my hands on his shoulders and his hands are on my lower back.
"Callum." I whisper his name as he slides his hand up my back and into my hair and sinks his fingers into it.
"Fuck, you're the prettiest thing I've ever seen....you've always been the prettiest girl I've ever known." he says and I moan as he gently clenches his fingers in my hair and pulls my hair back gently.
I moan as his breath pushes over my neck as he speaks near it, his lips almost brushing my skin as I let out a soft whimper. His hand sliding out of my hair and down my back then he lifts them to my neck, gently holding it, sliding his hands to my face, and behind my head as he lifts my head back up to make me look at him, both of us breathing heavier, faster as we pants. His mouth skirts barely over mine.
"I've waited forever Callum...just kiss me" I speak softly and he groans.
"I don't want to just kiss you Sugarplum." he says.
"I dont want to just kiss you either" I answer and he inhales deeply and let's it out slowly. I lick my lips and he licks his.
"I don't want to just take your clothes off.....I dont want to just be inside of you Sloane....I want so much fucking more than that with you...I always have." he breathes and I whimper.
"me too" i admit.
"If I kiss you Sloane....I'm never kissing anyone else for as long as I live....you're all I fucking want." he says and then his fingers slip into my hair as I nod.
"I hate that I didn't kiss you that night when I said goodbye" he groans and I whimper.
"I hate it too." I breathe, wetting my lips again with my tongue and he pushes his forehead to mine, his nose nudging mine.
"God, I thought about kissing you ever since I saw you Sloane" he says and I whimper.
"You've always been mine." he whispers and I nod.
"Once I kiss you....you're mine Sloane....really mine." he says and I nod.
"Tell me you're mine Sugarplum." he whispers.
"I'm yours Callum" I answer and he groans.
"Say it again"he exhales.
"I'm yours." I breathe, the anticipation of this kiss, absolutely killing me.
"Will you hate me, if I say that I want to wait to kiss you...that I want to take your out first...that i want to-"
"Callum" I pratically whine. "yes, i will"
He smiles slightly with a little laugh.
"I'm going to cry if you don't kiss me right now" I admit. "I want you to kiss me right now"
"I'll never fucking make you cry Sugarplum. Ever." he says, his hands gently slip my chin a fraction higher.
"Give me your mouth Sloane." he says, his tone firm, demanding, hot and deep and I feel it through every fiber of my being. My tongue swiping my lips again and he groans.
"you're mine Sloane" he whispers. I nod.
"I'm yours."
"God, this is going to be so fucking good , isn't it? This pretty mouth is gonna wreck me, isn't it Sloane?" he asks and I whimper.
"I'm going to pass out, my heart is beating so fast" I breathe and he grins.
"My heart has been beating fast for nearly ten years because of you Sloane" he says and I lick my lips again.
"I'm begging you to kiss me Callum" I whimper.
He smiles. "There's no need for that Sugarplum." he shakes his head. "Because I'm going to do what I should have done four year ago.....now give me your lips baby, cause i'm fucking dying to taste your mouth." he groans.