Steamed 4 (Steamed #4)

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Author: Nella Tyler
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Gemma, but I
wouldn't go in there if I were you. He is in quite a mood.”
    “I don't give a shit what kind of mood he's in, he is going
to see me and start explaining himself.”
    “Gemma he isn't doing anything
wrong. That Link guy stole--”
    “No you listen to me! I am sick of this shit. You don't have
any idea what you're talking about Marcus. You believe a man that you have
trusted for years and I understand that. But he is wrong, dead wrong. He is
lying to you and he is lying to everybody else.”
    I had rendered Marcus speechless. He looked down into his
food and didn't say another word. I made my way back to Jared's office.
    When I walked in, Jared was leaning back in his office chair
with his feet up on his desk. When he saw me, his feet suddenly went to the
floor and he sat up straight.
    “We'll look at you, isn't it the restaurant King at his best…acting
like lazy son of a bitch.”
    “Excuse me? What the hell are you
doing here Gemma? I keep asking you to leave me alone and here you are once
again.”
    “I’m here because you disgust me. You are so much better
than this and I can't even believe what kind of person you have become. You're
not the brother that I used to love.”
    “Gemma it sounds like you really love the sound of your own
voice.”
    I couldn’t believe him. What happened to the brother that
used to love me? Use the look after me? Was always there when I needed him?
    “What is the matter with you? Do you think that you're doing
anything that would make anyone proud of you?”
    “Look Gemma, you don't know what's best for anyone anymore.
You proved that you're not loyal to me.”
    “Jared please, I've fallen in love with Link, don't you see
that? Don't you care about me at all? Link is a good person and you are ruining
his life. What you are doing here is wrong, very wrong. How could you do
something like this to another person? What did he ever do to you? He left your
restaurant, so what? The recipe is not yours and you are lashing out for no
reason.”
    “Stop it Gemma.”
    “Please Jared; I'm begging you stop trying to ruin
everything. Not only are you affecting Link’s life and his business, you are
affecting mine as well. I need you to stop this. You are so much better of a person
than this. I just don't understand what happened to you. I need to understand
why you are doing this!”
    Jared pulled open a drawer on his desk and dug around
inside. I wasn't quite sure what he was doing. He pulled out a mirror and a low
box. Inside the box was cocaine. He dumped a little bit on the mirror, and with
a razor blade he quite slowly and systematically made himself a line. I stared
in disbelief.   I couldn't believe he
was about to do that right in front of me. He had absolute no respect for me
anymore and I wasn't even the one that was in the wrong. Jared bent over and
snorted a line of cocaine, sniffing through his nostrils. The sight of him
disgusted me.
    He looked up at me and stared at me straight in the face.
    “Get out,” he said.
    I turned away from him and did exactly what he wanted. I
left the restaurant with the idea that I would never return. It was pointless
trying to talk to him. He was in the world of drugs and I may never be able to
get him back again. He was no longer listening to me, and to continue on
putting myself out there only to be slapped in the face over and over and over
again was not something I had any interest in. I was walking away from Jared
that day, possibly forever.
    As I walked past Marcus, I shot out over my shoulder, “That
coked out man back there is the one that you're going to trust? What a joke.”

 
    Chapter Four

 
    On the way back to Link's restaurant I had a heavy heart. I
was still in shock by what I saw in my brother's office, and I felt that I had
lost him forever. I barely recognized the man I had saw in that office and it
made it that much more obvious to me that things had changed between us. I was
pretty sure that they had

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