Pieces of Me by Pua Ramona (small books to read txt) 📕

be from one of her friends. I open it, expecting to see some girly shit.

Instead my hands begin to shake as I read the words on the screen.

Unknown Number : I need to see you soon.

Sina: Who is this?

Unknown Number: Jax ;)

Unknown Number: Meet me at the lake later tonight. No one will believe you. So if you don’t want anyone to know why you really left eight years ago, then you’ll be there. Don’t keep me waiting.

I am going to kill this motherfucker. This piece of fucking shit. He’s the reason she started acting differently when I found her crying in the truck at her parent’s house. He’s the reason she started flinching when I tried to touch her. He’s the motherfucker that raped her eight years ago, and he was brave enough to fucking do it again tonight.

My heart is beating so fucking hard that it feels like my blood is boiling. I am losing my fucking shit and I don’t give a fuck if I kill him. He fucking forced himself on her and left her all beaten, broken and a bloody mess.

His own fucking blood.

“What is it?” Luka asks, watching my reaction to looking at her phone. I take a deep breath to steady myself.

“Do you have Jax’s number?” I ask.

“Nah! But I know someone who does” he says with a frown.

“What’s going on man?” Reese asks, sensing my mood.

I don’t answer Reese because I need to be sure that this Jax is the same one that was at the Peterson’s house. “Luka, I need to get his number.”

He looks at me and says, “Why, does he know what happened?”

“Luka, get me his number right fucking now.”

He clicked on someone’s number and waited for them to answer.

“June-Bug, can I get your brother’s number?” Luka asks.

I can’t hear what June-Bug’s says, but Luka starts repeating the numbers and they match.

I was see fucking red; I’m going to kill him. I need to hit something, so I punch my window out. “Fuck!” I shout. I walk to the back of my truck and grab the bat that Reese and I used to use when we went batting. I start swinging the bat around in a fit of rage.

I’m going to fucking kill him!” I launch the bat and walk around to the passenger side of the truck and punch that window out too.

Luka locks his arms around me and says, “E! Stop! You’re no good to my sister if someone calls the fucking cops.”

I can’t breathe. I wanted to fucking find him and kill him. I take a breath and centre myself and ask, “What’s Jax’s whole name?”

“Jackson, why?” Daniel asks.

“It was him,” I say as Reese makes a strangled choking sound.

“What was him?” Luka asks bewildered. I look at Marino and I can see that he knows what I mean when I say that it was Jackson.

“Fuck!” I look at Reese as he struggles to rein in his anger..

“Jax is Jackson. Jackson’s the one that raped her eight years ago. It was his name that Sina said when she passed out the day her and Michael had that fall out at Pixie’s. She had a nightmare at her Mama’s the next day too. Lei tried to wake her; she was calling out in her sleep for Lei to run so that Jackson couldn’t get her. She’s fucking terrified of him.” Reese says.

Luka is having a hard time processing this information, and so is Daniel.

Reese looks at Luka and says “This isn’t the first time he raped her, man. The first time was the same day she found out that she was pregnant with Emma.”

“Shit! It was the same day she found out about me and Becca” Michael says. His shoulders fall and I know he feels guilty. It’s crazy how everything is connected and to think that my girl fucking survived all of it eight years ago, alone breaks my heart.

“June-Bug, do you know where Jax is at?” Luka asks, calling his cousin back. “Thanks, Uso. Do me a favor? Don’t tell him that I’m looking for him. I’ll hit you up later. Love you too.”

Luka hangs up and says “He’s at Sparky’s with some of our cousins.”

Sparky’s is another bar, but it’s only thirty minutes away. I start walking over to Reese’s car.

“What’s the plan?” Marino asks, bouncing on the balls of his feet.

I look over my shoulder and say, “Leave him to me.”

I look at Luka and Daniel. “I need to do this. You guy’s won’t be good to your Mama and sisters from behind bars” I tell them. I know they want to handle it, but Miss Rita and the girls need them to be here and not in prison. They both look at me and nod their heads in agreement.

Reese is already starting the car. Marino and Michael climb into the back seats.

“We’ll meet you guys there,” Luka says. He pounds on the top of the car and then he and Daniel run to his SUV.

Chapter Sixty-Two

Sina

I wasn’t sure how long Daddy and I were walking for, but somehow we ended up at the lake. The sun felt so good and the breeze was just right. I stopped and took a deep breath. “It’s a good day to die,” Daddy said.

I looked at him and asked “Why would you say that? Am I dying?” I freaked out.

Daddy started laughing. “See, you need to learn how to relax Sina” he said.

“Daddy, I can’t relax when you say things like that to me,” I chide. But he laughed again anyway. I rolled my eyes at him.

“I’m surprised that your eyes haven’t fallen out of your head yet.”

I rolled them again and said “Because, I’m rolling them right.” We laughed together and I said, “I missed you Daddy.”

He smiled at me and sighed. “I missed you too Sina.” We walked to our spot by the lake and took a seat on our rock. “Do you know