Derek POV
“Derek! Derek!” Jeremy shouts, and I hear his footsteps approaching the kitchen where I had settled down to eat after my incident with Lexie. I am struggling to eat the food; not that it is not well cooked; I just can't help but feel a little bad about what Lexie said to me.
Did I go too far by telling her that I was going to call the wedding off and pay her off like some toy?
But what was I meant to do? I can't just stand the idea of being trapped in another of my father's scandals.
“Derek!” Jeremy shouts again. I roll my eyes. Seriously, when am I going to be free from these two siblings?
He rushes into the room and pins me with a glaring, panting heavily with a curled fist. “What?” I ask, and he rushes to me, intending to hit me, but I stop him in the air.
He tried to
