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-Simi to Keene
KEENE
After that encounter, the last thing I wanted to do was get back to my place and deal with my family… yet there they were.
All of them. Every last one of them. In my apartment, looking on expectantly.
At least the brothers-in-law had the decency to look chagrined.
“What are you all doing here?” I asked stiffly.
My hand curled protectively around Ande, who was clutching her blanket like her very life depended on it.
The move was noticed by all of my sisters.
“We’re here because we were watching the football game on your television,” Simi said unapologetically from the couch where she was stuffing her face with what looked like caramel popcorn. “Why are you here?”
I paused. “Because I live here.”
“Yeah,” Zip chewed on a piece of beef jerky. “But you literally said you weren’t coming home. How is this our fault that you’re here, and we’re here?”
I pinched the bridge of my nose. “Because this is my house.”
“Technically,” Hades said tauntingly, “this is an apartment.”
I growled low under my breath, ready to toss each one of them out by their hair—whether their husbands allowed it or not—but came to a stop when the woman beside me giggled.
It was the sweetest sound I’d ever heard.
I hadn’t heard her laugh in days, and even that was over the phone.
“She’s right,” Ande whispered, though every one of them heard it. “This is an apartment.”
I felt my eyelid twitch.
The giggle she released once again calmed something inside of me. An invisible monster that seemed to only appear when she was hurt.
“Not you, too,” I groaned.
“We’re not usually this mean to him,” Val called out, her sprawl on the couch telling me that she’d had a really long day. I almost felt bad for being annoyed that she was here. “But you’ll soon come to learn that Keene is very annoying. God forbid you ever use the term ‘car’ in reference to his ‘truck.’”
I felt Ande’s eyes on me, and I couldn’t help but look down at her.
I studied her face as I tried to ascertain if she was okay with being here with them all.
She looked… happy.
“Who’s playing again?” Ande asked.
I walked over to my favorite chair, pushed it forward, and dumped Zip onto the floor.
“Hey!” she cried out, rolling over onto her back and going for a kick to my dick.
I sidestepped her, then deposited my ass into the chair. Once I was safe from Zip, who was saved by her husband, Nash, I pulled Ande into my lap.
“Slone, our brother-in-law, plays for the Longview Liners,” someone called out. “This is his last year before retirement.”
“Which one is Slone?” Ande asked.
