“Nothing,” Zeb said, running a hand over his mussed hair. “Just don’t like the guy.”
“Okay. I need a shower. Have fun together,” she said, giving me a hug.
She grabbed her caddy and robe which was on a hook by the door, then left. I loved her free spirited nature. She just slept with a guy who’d pretty much used her to be able to show up in my dorm room and prove he can get to me in all different ways. I wasn’t planning on telling her that. It was one thing to be confident and casual about sex, it was another to be straight-up used.
Zeb sighed. “Fuck.”
“He slept with her to end up here. He wanted to warn me off again, in my dorm room,” I said.
“Yeah. Probably. Except he didn’t expect me to be here and he didn’t expect Rose to have your back. He was probably expecting her to be a clinger and would have been intentionally cruel.”
I could see him doing that.
“We really going to your home for the break?” I asked.
He smiled. “Hell, yeah.”
“Um, isn’t that a little soon?”
“Says the woman who’s got my cum in her pussy. Besides, I don’t want you anywhere near Trout.”
I cocked my head. “I thought he was from your small town, too.”
“He is, but I doubt we’ll run into him. My brother Colt really is the sheriff and I have six other brothers who are pretty protective.”
I did the easy math. Still, it was stunning. “You have seven brothers?”
“And a sister.” He smiled, as if just thinking of them made him happy. “Yeah. I’m the baby.”
“Wait.” I held up a hand, then reached and grabbed my glasses off the desk. “Wait.”
He frowned. “What?”
“Where are you from again?”
“Devil’s Ditch. It’s about–”
I put my hand to my mouth, stifled a laugh. “Holy shit.”
“What?”
“Your sister is Lainey, right?”
“Yeah,” he said, drawing the word out, frowning. “How do you–”
“She’s married to my brother, Beau.”
His eyes widened as he processed that. He came to me, pulled me into his arms. “Your last name’s not Rivers.”
He was right. Beau and I didn’t have the same last name. Or fathers.
“We’re from our mom’s two different marriages.”
A slow smile spread across his handsome face. “Holy shit. That’s great. They’re having a baby so we’ll be double aunts and uncles.”
“I don’t even know what that means,” I countered.
“We’ll be aunt and uncle from both sides. Come on, grab a bag. We’re headed to Devil’s Ditch.”
