• T H E  T R U T H •

"Explain." Was the first thing that came out my mouth the second we stepped into Elijah's office which was situated in the warehouse which was like a half an hour drive from where we came from.

"Drink." He offers me. I grab the glass off and throw my head back drinking the fiery liquor. I place He glass on the table, keeping in mind if everyone else here. 

"I'm really losing my mind right now Elijah. You supposed to be dead but your not. Some guy was judging talking about taking me to his so-called boss. Jace is in fucking hospital, which remind me I still need to fucking pack. So hurry up." I finish my ranting and take a seat as the others sit down too.

Carter just had to sit next to me. I close breathing in before breathing out and opening my eyes. "James Grayson, your crazy bastard of an ex-boyfriend is the reason your parents and brother are dead." Elijah started but was interrupted by Danny.

"Your parents are dead?" He asked me, with a shocked expression.

"Why else do you think I was living with you bozos." I said turning back to Elijah.

"Oh-Hey." He said offended I called him a bozo. I stood up, for some reason I couldn't sit. I stood against the wall.

"You were fucking this bozo." Caden said nodding his head over to Carter who just smirked as blondie who's name is Emily clung onto him.

Before I could reply Elijah already started to talk, "James wants you dead. Any reason why?"

"What do you mean?" I ask him.

"Did you take something of his or hurt something close to him?" Elijah questions.

I shrug my shoulders leaning my head against the wall, "we dated for 2 years and broke up. After we broke up, I decided to start on a clean slate and forgot anything to with my past up until harper betrayed...." I trial off, my breathing picking up.

"Upon till harper betrayed, what?" Carter asks getting defensive I mentioned his sister.

One thing no one knows is that harper was pregnant with Jakes baby. James found out and found the perfect opportunity to get back at me for breaking up with and leaving him, making him rot in jail.

He kidnapped harper and brainwashed her to get rid of the child and made her betray us, by giving away important information about me, Jace and few other people who were involved in gang activity.

We were meeting up at were house one night when we got a message, James placed a bomb and it would blow up in 10 seconds, me, Jace and Jake got out. We lost the others and we thought we lost harper until we saw her with James at the end of the road.

She turned around and left. She left us all broken and most importantly my brother broken. For not only the loss of his child but for the loss of her. He loved her with everything she had and she betrayed him, she betrayed us.

"Sophia." Elijah snapped me back to reality.

"What does harper have to do with all this?" Carter ask coming up to me.

"More than you think." I snap quickly grabbing the keys and running out of the building. The keys were to a black mustang which I quickly started and began driving towards the same old werehouse James had John.

I rung on Harper's phone hoping she'd pick up. "Hello." Her groggy voice came through.

"How long will I take you to get to the old warehouse near the beach houses?" I ask her swerving the car around other cars.

"Why?" She asked on more alert now.

"I need to know the truth harper."

"I'll be there in 10." She hung up on the phone and I continued my way to the old warehouse.

***

"What do you want to know?" Harper asks me as she comes and sits next to me on the floor leaning against the oak tree.

"I need to know the truth harper about what really happened when James took you and made you...." I trail off.

Harper sighed, "First of all, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. James blackmailed me. He said he would kill everyone I love. My family, friends, Jake and you."

"He was drugging me Sophia. I wasn't even in the right state of mind. I hardly even remember much, it's like he wiped my memory clean." She mumbles the last bit.

"It's very possible that he did." She added on. "I knew too much. Of course he wasn't going to let me go knowing so much about him."

"I remember waking up in a room with wires attached to my arms. I was in a hospital gown with an oxygen mask on. James walked in and had tears in his eyes and told me I lost the baby because my body was weak and stupid me believed him." A lone tear fell out her eye as she wiped it away.

"A week later I was allowed to leave that room. I remember hearing James talking to someone over the phone. He told them how he drugged me, beat me and then made me want to get rid of the baby, making em think it wouldn't survive. He practically forced me for an abortion." Her voice cracked at the end.

"That bomb in that was in the warehouse—I had no idea about it. It was like a dream to me. I don't even remember much-just me walking away with James leaving you, Jake and Jace there." She added, "please believe me Sophia. I had no idea what he was doing. I—I would never ever do anything like that to you." She begged holding my hands.

I wiped her tears away, "I believe you Harper. I really do. But I'm just more upset with the fact that after you left James, you didn't come to see us. To see how Jake was, or even how Jace was."

"I did come. But you were also so happy that I didn't want to see the smiles fall off your face. So I came home and told mom and dad that I wanted to leave and start fresh. So I went to London, I stayed there with my cousins. I went to high-school there but I missed home so I came back." She finished off.

"I'm glad you did." I sighed, and hugged her as she returned the embrace.

"We leave for New York tomorrow evening, we still need to pack." She commented.

"You need to pack. I already have some clothes there. I'm just taking the essentials." I pointed out to her.

She chucked shaking her head, "Your right, I forgot."

Silence eloped is until harper broke it again.

"I know we have a long time left yet, but on Christmas, I want you to come spend it with us in New York at my grandmas house. My family always gets together there." She says looking at me.

"Thanks for the offer harper but I'd rather be in my childhood home." I added, "Just with 3 less people."

"You don't have too be alone of Christmas Sophia. I'm your family, were all your family." She said.

I sighed, "I know that harper. We'll see when the time comes."

"Let's get out of here. It's Dark and getting colder by the minute." Harper said standing up as I followed.

"You go ahead. I'll be at home in a n hour, I have to go somewhere." I said she was going to protest but I told her-no demanded her to go.

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Sorry for taking so long to update, I've been busy.

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I would also like to let you all know that from the 13TH FEBRUARY 2018–I won't be Able to update as often as I'm going abroad for a wedding and won't be returning back home until start of April.

So if I don't update during that time, I will assure I will update a batch of chapters after that. I will be sitting on a 7 hour flight writing, since I have nothing better to do.

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