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“Yeah, but why did you nickname her? Was that something you guys did when you were faking, because you obviously don’t have to put on now.”
The kid was legit testing me right now, and I didn’t have time for it. Instead, I braced my arms, trying my best not to appear pissed the hell off. “Obviously. It’s just what I call her. I call you the kid. That’s just what I call her.”
Fucking relax.
My brother definitely noticed the elevation in my voice, his frown heavy, weighted. “Why do you want to see her?”
“Maybe to fucking apologize? You’re the one who told me I should.”
“Okay, well, you should probably actually want to fucking apologize.”
“I do.” I spoke through my teeth. “I owe her that. Now, where is she?”
Bru simply stared at me, and I questioned my ability to allow my brother to continue living in that moment. He was coming between Red and me, and no one fucking did that.
So dangerous.
This stressed the reason I was here right now. Fawn wasn’t the only one who needed a line drawn. In fact, I probably needed it the most.
Well aware of that, I waited patiently. Well, as patient as I could with a rapidly beating fucking heart.
Bru sighed. “She does deserve that, but you can’t. At least, not right now.”
“Why?”
“Because she’s in the shower.”
What. The. Fuck.
“Shower? Whose shower?”
Bru’s brow lifted slow. “Ours?”
“What the fuck do you mean? Yours?” I did start to move into the room then, but he cut me off.
“Bro, what’s your deal?” In my aggression, it took me a moment to realize my kid brother had handfuls of my hoodie.
Because he was holding me back.
He had a physical hold on me, but I wasn’t thinking straight. “What do you mean yours?” I repeated, seething. “You and Red…”
“Are rooming together,” he said, and I was on him at this point. Chest to chest, I was so close we barely had a nose of space between us. Bru had my shoulders, bracing them hard, but all I was seeing was red.
Red…
I didn’t see her, not in the room, and the longer I didn’t, I felt myself losing my shit. I felt myself panicking, and through my haze, my brother made me look at him.
“Ares, what’s up? Ares?” He was shaking me, making me physically fucking look at him. “Bro, what’s wrong? You okay?”
No, I wasn’t fucking okay. No, I wasn’t good, and I needed in that room right now before I landed him on the floor.
But the kid was bigger than me, stronger. In his time away, he’d gained the advantage where I’d lost it.
I lost it.
So much I lost, Red somewhere in this fucking room in my brother’s shower.
“Ares, look at me. Fuck. You’re scaring me.”
