Chapter 36

"JACOB, I SWEAR TO HELL AND BACK!!"

"Fuck..." I mumble before walking towards the living room, "Jay, go up to your room, if you hear me yell to run...run."

"Yessir," Jay said before turning himself into smoke and going through the vents towards his room, 'I wish I had that easy of an escape'. We walked into the living room, Jade already sitting on the couch, and sat opposite of her as Nicki walked in with a look that, to put it mildly, would make satan himself piss his pants.

"YOU BLEW UP DETROIT?! I SAID TO GO ON A SHORT DRIVE, NOTHING ELSE!"

"Okay, first of all, don't yell at me; secondly, I didn't blow up all of Detroit, just a small section of it...plus one of the police stations."

"You still blew up a chunk of Detroit, WITH JAY SITTING NEXT TO YOU!" She yelled in my face, I get that she was mad, it's understandable and anyone would be if their old home was, but yelling was a line you didn't cross with me, for various reasons.

"Stop yelling, Nicki. Or I stop talking," I said, and she took a breath and paced a bit before sitting down to continue.

"Why did you blow up Detroit?"

"I was bored, and it was only the police station...give or take a couple of mile radius."

"You still blew up Detroit, and people are starting to think it was a terrorist attack. I don't want Jay to think that blowing up portions of cities is okay, especially when he's just learning how to use and control his gift."

"Should I have just covered his eyes or..."

"You shouldn't have fucking blown up a police station!" She exclaimed, trying to remain calm while I was just sitting there, amused at her anger because even if she did once live in Detroit, she hated it. When she moved away to Arizona she had talked about how much she hated it in Detroit because she always had to carry or else she would be too scared of getting beat up or mugged, "Did you at least give Jay a driving lesson? Teach him the basics and such?"

"Oh, that was the best part! JJ was our getaway driver, and he was awesome at it!" I said through laughter, knowing she'd get pissed off at the idea of a ten-year-old behind the wheel of a car driving away from a police station rigged to explode, but she surprised me.

"Was he safe? And did he get y'all away fast enough?"

"Yeah, the car is in the garage, beaten up as it is, and he didn't even dent it or anything. He learns fast it seems," I said as I got up to go to the kitchen, I needed a soda. I grabbed a can of Lucifer's cola and cracked it open before downing the whole thing, and grabbed a second one.

"I also taught him some basics on car repair and general knowledge, he does learn fairly quickly," Jade said, pulling Nicki into her lap and playing with her hair. As much as she was obviously the one in charge in their relationship, she was soft around Nicki and everyone knew that Nicki could get Jade to do anything she wanted, within reason of course.

"You better hope Alex doesn't pay attention to the news, otherwise you're going to have to explain to her why you blew up Detroit."

That was something I hadn't thought about...at all, I was more worried about Nicki or JJ or even Derek finding out and getting pissed off about it, I had never considered how Alex would react. It's not like it would matter anyway, if shit hit the fan I had ways of going into hiding that even Nicki or Derek didn't know about. The thing that worried me was that she was going to be talking to her pack about me to introduce me to them, sort of, and if the news somehow gets my name out there about Detroit...that would be one hell of a storm to hear about from Alex. 'If she finds out about Detroit, you think her pack will know, Jack?' 'Easily, I'd be thoroughly shocked if her entire pack didn't know about it if she did.'

"Well, here's hoping she doesn't find out because I have no idea what I'm going to do if she does I have no-" I got cut off by my phone ringing, and who could've guessed that it was Alex calling, she has the most ironic timing ever, "Shit."

"Alex?"

"Yeah, any advice?"

"You probably know more about this than I do, so just relax and don't be dumb," Nicki said, and got up to leave the room with Jade in tow, and I picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

"So, aside from blowing up one of the thorns in my side in Detroit, what'd ya do today?" 'Fuck'

"You heard about that, huh?"

"IT'S NATIONAL FUCKING NEWS, YOU DOOF!"

"Please d-don't yell at me, Alex, I hate yelling," I said, I wasn't going to explain why I hated it when people yelled at me to her at this point in time because it made me anxious to talk about. I would eventually tell her about it, but right now I didn't need more anxiety, and I want to tell her face to face rather than over a phone call.

"Everyone in my pack knows that you blew up Detroit, and you're asking me to not yell!?"

"Please. It brings up bad memories from my past that I'm trying to get over still, and if you can't stop yelling call me again when you won't yell at me."

"Alright, Jake, I'll call you again in ten to fifteen minutes," She said and hung up, I got up and went through a portal to hell, Jack was playing with Jameson and based off of the fire in the pit next to him, he had already gone and lit the thermite in the pit. My ex was one of the people in that pit, and he was the reason I hated it when people yelled at me, specifically those that I trust and care about. I saw him in the pit, his skin burning and peeling, screaming in agony and all I could do was smirk; he was getting everything he deserved after what he put me through and I would never let it go because he never showed mercy to me.