151–I Am A Liar
Nora:
“Cain drinks that much?” I asked cautiously, feeling uneasy about it. Do we even know each other well enough?
“Um, he does. But not all the time. Usually, he does it when he’s super upset.” Silas parked the car in front of a street.
“And does he tell anyone? I mean, confide in someone about his problems?” Since the brothers didn’t really have friends, I wondered how they coped with daily life traumas or if they had someone to share their worries with.
“Cain? No! None of us do. We like to keep it to ourselves,” Silas said before he walked out of the car and over to my side, opening the door
for me.
“Don’t worry, nobody is going to bother you here. The only people who come to this bar are the rich ones who don’t want to drink and get photographed,” he added as he led me down a narrow street.
At the end of the street stood a not–so–big bar. He was right. If he hadn’t told me about it, I would have never guessed there was a bar here.
“Come on,” he held my hand and guided me inside.
Right off the bat, I could smell alcohol and cigarettes. It wasn’t large, and there was no music or anything fancy going on. There were cubicles, and everyone was sitting alone with a bunch of bottles on the table in front of them. It felt like the loneliest bar ever.
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I could tell from the bar’s condition that Cain must have been very upset and sad to leave the comfort of his studio.
“The last one,” the bartender glanced at Silas and immediately knew who he had come here looking for.
We began to walk towards the end of the bar, and as Silas had said, it wasn’t too bad here. Nobody was looking at me or making remarks. They were all lost in their own thoughts.
Once we reached the last cubicle, sure enough, we found Cain inside surrounded by a bunch of empty bottles.
“Cain! How many of these did you–” Silas stopped himself as he started counting the bottles and lost track.
“Dude!” Silas stepped in.
“It reeks in here,” I whispered as I entered second behind Silas so Cain couldn’t see me
Cain looked like a mess with his hair tousled and his eyes swollen.
“Why are you here, Silas?” he asked in a grumpy and unhappy tone.
“To fetch you, of course. The pack is angry, and you’re drowning yourself in alcohol. What happened now?” Silas was stern, standing before his brother with hands on his hips, closely observing Cain’s every move.
“There are three of you. Why do you need me?” His voice was raspy as he spoke with his brother.
“And yet we need you. If you don’t want to protect the pack, then let us know. We’ll… make Nora the Luna Queen of the East,” Silas joked, but Cain’s response bothered me a little.
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His body flinched at my mention, and he instantly grabbed a bottle from the side, gulping it down his throat. I tried to convince myself it was because I was his mate, and he might need me when he was suffering from whatever pain led him to abandon everything and rely on alcohol.
“Come on, Cain! We need you,” Silas groaned, snatching the bottle from his hands. Cain resisted, turning his body and giving me a double
take.
A smile spread across my lips to let him know I was there for him. He kept staring even as Silas pulled back and studied us for a few seconds.
“She came here to look for you,” Silas broke the silence, but Cain only lowered his head without returning the smile to me.
“Cain, let’s go home. There’s so much going on,” I stepped forward, hoping to break through to him. There was indeed a lot that needed his attention and guidance, not just for the pack but for my own troubles as
well.
“Silas, don’t you know you’re not supposed to bring her to places like. these?” Cain’s response was harsh and quick, and he didn’t spare a glance at me.
“I insisted on coming,” I said stubbornly, hands on my hips. But Cain. still didn’t turn to look at me.
“There are too many drunk men here,” he hissed, shaking his head at his brother.
“Then come home because I couldn’t leave her alone, and she wanted to find you,” Silas explained.
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This might be a good read if it quits switching languages. It starts English then I believe maybe dutch then possibly Spanish so makes it hard to understand with not being able to read paragraphs at a time ....