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The beep of my phone sounded again, and I rolled, reaching for it.
When I blinked my bleary eyes to try to clear them, my phone came into view. As well as the hundreds of text messages.
I sat up and started to go through them, starting with the group chat.
Mom: They already had all of her things boxed up when we got here. We should be very fast to turn around. But y’all… she’s cremated.
Quincy: What?
Quaid: She wanted to have a viking burial. How the hell is she going to have that if she’s cremated?
Quincy: Why would they cremate her? That doesn’t make sense.
Dad: Apparently it was specifically noted in her papers. She was cremated per her orders.
Garrett: That’s not how this works.
Mom: I just wanted to see her one last time, and now I’ll never be able to.
My heart literally broke as I read through the messages.
I didn’t know the military, or how things were done in foreign countries, but this didn’t sound right. Why would she be cremated less than twenty-four hours after she died?
“You okay, De?” the gruff male voice asked from beside me.
I turned my head from where it was leaning against the headboard and studied his sleepy face.
His face was creased by the pillow, he had crusties in the corner of his eye, and I found it so adorable that I wanted to lean over and kiss him.
“When my mom and dad got to the base to see her, they found out that she’d been cremated. ‘Per her wishes,’” I said.
He blinked. “They would usually let you see the body. That’s weird.”
“What’s even weirder is that she hated the idea of being cremated. She ‘didn’t want to burn’ is the way she put it. We always joked that we’d give her a Viking funeral so that she could burn in a way cooler way. In reality, she wanted to get a sea burial. So, she wouldn’t burn or be buried,” I explained.
He frowned even harder. “Do you want me to have my sister’s computer friend look into it?”
I thought about it.
Then I decided… no.
Maybe there were things that I just didn’t know about my sister.
“She started seeing a guy there a year or so ago,” I said. “I started seeing changes in her around that time, and it’s possible that she just… changed. I noticed a lot of things that were different about her. Including the way she was acting around everyone when she came down last Christmas. Her and that guy broke up and she was so angry. I could see other things about her changing, too.”
Meaning, it hurt my heart that I didn’t know my sister, my twin sister, as well as I once did.
“If you change your mind,” he replied, “she’s more than happy to snoop in other people’s business.”
I grinned, but that grin fell off my face when his legs shifted, and his cock—his very hard, very thick, very sticking straight up in the air cock—came into view.
He was tenting the sheet.
I bit my lip, my mouth watering at the sight, and thought… what a perfect distraction.
“It’s morning,” he rumbled, seeing where my gaze was at. “I can’t help it. Just ignore it.”
“I think the fuck not,” I murmured, tossing my phone down onto the bed before crawling over to him. “What a perfect distraction you’re about to be.”
