Chapter 6

Autumn

“How could you be so careless? This one time that I didn’t come to the port in the middle of the night as usual to check, and you dozed off? When you knew I was busy, you should’ve been more careful! This is insane!” My nose flared in anger as I continued yelling at Dante. If I could, I would have been choking him through the phone right now.

“Woah! I thought Ian did something wrong. I came running here, thinking you were about to kill him. But now, I pity the person you are talking to over the phone,” Steven spoke out of nowhere.

I glared at Steven when I saw him giving me a mocking look after I cut the call. He stopped approaching me and said, “I better go back. I am stepping inside a lion’s cave.”

“Hold on,” I commanded, which made him stop from taking another step further. “If Ian gets to know about whatever you heard, it will be your body in the cemetery,” I warned him clearly.

He was Ian’s brother and his best friend at the same time. He wa