Small surprise in this chapter !

~Magnolia Knight~

I can't believe it. In front of me I see a fuming Jace holding on to the collar of Blake's shirt, as if he was gonna beat him up. When they notice my presence, their heads snaps towards me, and I take in the appearance of Jace. He changed. He looks exhausted. But that's not the fucking point. What the hell is he doing alive ? He is supposed to be dead...

"Mags ?" I hear him yell, but I stumble out of the room, gasping for air, trying to understand what the hell is happening. Jace motherfucking Reed is my brother's room. In Blake's fucking room. He is alive. I grab the wall next to me, only inches away from crashing my face into it, as I try to put distance between the boy I thought dead.

I bet he didn't expect me to appear in my brothers room in the middle of the night while he chats with him, as if he wasn't meant to be dead. Why would he lie to me ? Why would he fake his death ?

"Shortcake !" Jace yells and I hear him run after me as I run down the stairs, tears trickling down my cheeks. "Wait please, let me explain." He begs and against my will, my body stops and turns around to face the boy I cried nights and days over. Jace stops dead in his tracks when he sees my face, describing pain and betrayal. I let my tears slip when I look into his emerald green eyes, the ones I prayed to see just one more time.

He stares back at me, guilt evident in his orbes, praying me to give him a chance to explain. But why should I ? I mean he left me and clearly didn't try to contact me ever again. I was just a game to him right ?

"Don't you dare call me that ever again." I spate at him, anger rising by the second as I think of how easily he let me drown into grief for him. "But why ? Why f-fake your d-death ?" I can't stop my voice from cracking, I have been through too much for the past night. First the race, then beating Blake, then going back to cutting myself, and now... finding out that Jace is alive. AND with Blake, which means he knew he was alive this whole time and didn't say a word when I mentioned Jace after the race. An other betrayal.

"You don't know how difficult it was for me to do this to you shortca-Mags..." he corrects himself and tempts to continue, but I don't let him.

"Difficult for you ? FUCK YOU JACE ! I was the one thinking you were dead, erased from this planet forever ! I was alone when I woke up in your mansion, after the accident, that's when they told me you were dead-" I stop in my sentence, when realise something and by the looks of it Jace seems to understand what I figure out, because his face darkens. "th-they all knew it..." the words come out of my mouth like a broken whisper. "Gab knew...he lied too"

Jace looks away, unable to hold on to my broken gaze, but he tries to take a step forwards to hold me in his arms, but I back away.

"You all betrayed me... I-I... why ?" I was now in front of the main door ready to jump out and run away, away from this thing I called a family. But family isn't supposed to betray and lie, right ?

"Please Mags, j-just wait. Let us explain." Blake's voice comes out from behind Jace, as he makes his appearance out of the darkness he was hiding in. His face said it all. He knew he messed up and now he was scared to lose me.

"Magnolia it was to fucking protect you !" Jace desperately says, as I turn around to walk out of here and just as I am about to grab the door knob a knife is thrown at it.

It's the knife with the dragon symbol Jace gave me and that I let slip out of hand earlier in Blake's room. I stare at it for a few seconds, before I grab the handle and rip it out of the door. I lightly graze the symbol with the tip of my thumb and decide to slide it one of my combat boots I refused to take off when I came back in the mansion.

I don't even turn around and open the front door of the mansion and start walking out but not before saying one last thing.

"Go to hell."

I leave the door open and start running, but I don't stop even after hearing the powerful voice of Damon yelling at me to come back. He must have heard the conversation we had just like my brothers, because I swear I am pretty sure the entire neighbourhood would have heard me yelling. Except there is no neighbourhood here since they are rich and own a fucking forest to protect themselves.

I hear them running after me, but I sneak my frail body into the forest to hide away from them. My bare legs, only covered with a pair of shorts, get scratched from the low branches of the for3st, but I don't even wince at the pain. No, the pain I have in my chest right now is way larger and more painful than the scratches or any physical pain right now.

So as I randomly run in the darkness , I am guided towards a small tree house that is highly built in a tree. It looks so familiar. A sob escapes my lips as I start climbing up the tree, scraping my legs and hands on the way up. I let my body fall on the ground of the tree house once I arrive and I let my

thoughts take over me completely.

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When I drove Mags home from the race I didn't know what to say. I mean she did an amazing race, I have never seen someone beat me like this. Not even Jace. She was just so impressive. But when I saw that she was behind the wheel I just exploded... I never thought she would be the one driving, never in a million years.

I just wanted to know who was behind the wheel of the car, because Jace told me he was the one driving the car under the name of MJ, and he swore to me that he was stopping racing for safety mesures. He faked his death, I am aware of that, but I couldn't tell Lila. Jace made me swear to never tell anyone, because it was for his gang and especially for a certain girls safety. He never told me it was my sister...

But when the race ended I wanted to know who the imposter was, so I followed the car.

Well fuck me, because it was my sister. I was almost about to shoot her to death...I can't even imagine what would have happened if I even did... I was so close to pull the trigger.

I remember the day I first met Jace, it was one year ago. It was on a summer night, a race planned out ahead of the night. My car broke down and he somehow helped me fix it. Why ? Don't even ask, because I couldn't even know. It was simply... because he is Jace ? We raced against each other, but I let him win. He fixed my car, so I somehow had to give something back right ? Well after that we decided to grab a drink. Turned out he was the gang leader of Burning Heath. Who would have thought ? Not me.

We saw each other a couple of times after that for business. Damon wanted to make a contract with his gang, so I arranged it. But then... he just died. I was so surprised with the news that I went to his warehouse and guess what ? I came across the man himself, very much alive, but not in the best conditions. He was hurt and said he needed to dive under for a while. Something about the Italians... but it was so much more then this he said.

That's the last time I ever saw him. Until he suddenly stood in my bedroom with clenched fists, ready to throw a punch.

"What the actual fuck Jace ?" I whisper yell, when I clumsily close the door behind me. I drowned a couple of whiskey glasses before deciding to go to sleep, so I wasn't the most sober person right now. And I was especially not ready to find this dude in my room.

"Why the fuck would you even make her stop driving Blake !" Jace whispers yells as he pushes me against the door and it takes me a second to understand what he is talking about. He is referring to Lila and the illegal driving, which makes my anger burst through my facade, because he has no right to judge me. "She loves to drive don't you understand ! You can't take that away from her for fucks sake !"

"You are judging me ? You got her into this mess Jace ! You are the one who dragged her into your mafia shit and into the racing. She should have never been there in the first place." I snap, as quietly as possible, before pushing him off me, so I can myself push him against the wall. Unfortunately the alcool doesn't help steady my stability, so Jace easily spins me back around.

And when I thought things couldn't get worse, it gets worse. Lila gets in the fucking room and sees us both. She drops the knife she has in her hands out of shock, before stumbling out of the room. Jace is quick to pick the knife up and he runs after her. He fucked up too, because now he has to explain why he faked his death to her and why he was my room. Shit.

Their yelling down stairs doesn't help to calm the mansion as I already hear my brothers wake up from their sleep to have a look at what is going on. When I arrive downstairs, Lila's hand is in the doorknob ready to leave us. She had enough, I can see it in her eyes. She is shattered and in pain. And I thought I was helping her and healing her, but I think I only made everything worse.

I attempt to make her stop by nearly begging her, but she leaves after staying still for a minute.

"Go to Hell" she spits and runs, after that asshole threw a knife at her. Good job Jace fucking Reed. Now we actually have to chase after her in the woods. In the middle of the night.

My brothers, who seemed to understand that this was an urgent situation, are helping me and Jace to look for her. I am scared that she might hurt herself right now, especially in this unstable state.

Unfortunately, she is fast and smart, so she runs straight into the darkness of the forest. We look for her for 20 minutes, before I come across the tree house Damon build for us when we were kids. I see the figure of Jace already half way up the tree, he must have figured it out sooner then I did, because I know for a fact that she is in there.

When I hear two voices come from up the tree house, I take it as my cue to go back to the house. I know she is safe with him. And that's all I want right now. For her to be safe.

that was a long chapter guys, Jesus. I hope you enjoyed it though.

I am exhausted so please be tolerant with my mistakes.

Do you guys like Blake's pov ? I decided to make him a little less like an asshole and actually make his soft spot for Magnolia come out. Any thoughts on it ?

AND JACEEEE !! HE IS FREAKING ALIVE YAY ! anyone for team Jace ?

Or team Elijah ?

Team Will eventually ?

The brothers ?

Anyone else ?

Please vote and comment thank you !!