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Especially after last semester.
I had my own shit, but at least I was the only one affected by my actions.
“You aren’t stupid, but you are coming up with the wrong conclusions.”
“How so?”
“Fawn and I had a business arrangement.”
My mouth closed for a second. “A business arrangement.”
He nodded. “I controlled everything she did. My property.”
What the fuck?
“And anything you think you saw before was just some residual shit. Territorial.”
He was speaking so coldly about her. So cruel. “What are you talking about?” This wasn’t my brother. He didn’t do shit like this. Treat people this way… I closed the distance. “You do know what she’s been through, right? Her dad—”
“Yeah, I know all about that.”
I blinked. Fawn hadn’t been forthcoming about the terrible things she’d been through when I knew her. I’d found out through the grapevine back then, and that hadn’t been something we talked about on the roof. We didn’t talk about anything meaningful. I think she’d been afraid to let me in, and I hadn’t really wanted to pressure her.
Honestly, I was shocked he knew anything about her beyond the rage he apparently had. “I don’t believe you. That you’d do that. That you’re that…” My breath was harsh. “That you’re that cold.”
I really wanted to believe him better than that. I mean, he said he knew her history, and Wolf didn’t treat people like an asshole for no reason. I knew his reason, the one he gave, but it was weak and hadn’t made sense to me.
Wolf wet his lips. “Well, believe it. Now, if you’d excuse me, I need to go to bed. I basically have to do anything the parents fucking want me to do while we’re here. That includes waking up at the fucking crack of dawn and baking with the moms.”
I got his arm.
“Kid, if you don’t let go of me right fucking now, we’re going to have a problem.”
We were going to have a problem, and that started with me. “I don’t believe you.”
“What?”
“I don’t believe you, Wolf,” I said, and I did let go but only to confront him full on. So he’d look at me.
So he’d face me.
“You had a reaction before,” I explained, and it was one that had freaked me the fuck out. It scared me. He’d gone all apeshit, but it hadn’t scared me in a way that caused me to fear for my life.
I feared for him.
I’d never seen my brother have a panic attack, but I’d heard about them. He had looked on the cusp of heading to the floor, and yeah, that freaked me out. I had been scared but for him.
“Like I said…” He shrugged. “It was residual shit. Bullshit.”
I scanned his eyes. “You’re sure?”
“Positive.”
And then, he was leaving, and I think that only had about fifty percent to do with me. The rest was Dad who’d come around, and he called out to Wolf as he walked away.
“Remember. You’re to be around for anything we need, son,” Dad said, and Wolf bobbed his head once in acknowledgment. His hands in his pockets, my brother strode away, and Ramses sighed in his wake. “What am I going to do with him?”
This was a rhetorical question, and in the silence, Dad squeezed my arm.
