“What the hell,” I say, staring ahead, thinking that I can’t be seeing this right. But when I drag my fingertip over my brow, irritation shoots through me like a shockwave. “Kendall!”
I spin around and walk into the bedroom hollering out for her once more.
She appears in the doorway, with a look of innocence I know is nothing more than a bullshit act. “Yes, dear?”
“What the fuck did you do?” I ask, placing my hands on my hips.
“Whatever are you referring to?”
“This.” I point toward my eyebrow. “And before you pretend you have no idea what I’m talking about know that your innocent act is bullshit.”
“Oh that.” She doesn’t even try to deny it.
“Yeah that.”
“Payback.” She nods with a shrug.
“For?”
Kendall takes a step toward me, squaring her shoulders. “The lake,” she challenges me. “I told you to sleep with one eye open. You didn’t, so that,” she waves her finger in the direction of my eyebrow, “is kind of your fault.”
“It’s my fault you shaved half my eyebrow off?” I ask.
“Yep, exactly,” she says, dropping her hands to her sides before spinning around and walking away. “Next time you should really heed the warnings. It’s not my fault you didn’t listen.”
I leave the house a couple hours later and drive into Montgomery. Stopping into the office I decide to work on some paperwork here instead of home.
Kendall had gone into the shop and I hated the quiet.
I am buried in expense reports, going over the numbers for our supplies on our current jobs in progress when I hear someone clear their throat and I lift my gaze. There stood Bennett and Finn both standing in the doorway watching me.
I see the smirks on their faces and know it’s coming. I lean back and wait for it.
I should have known that the minute Kendall left the house, she would be on the phone telling the ladies what she’d done. The phone train was activated and everyone knew including the guys before I pulled into the lot.
“Go ahead.” I wave them on and Bennett chuckles.
“How did you sleep through her shaving off your brow?”
“Pain meds,” I say with a shrug. “And apparently she is a very sly little ninja with a razor.”
Finn loses his shit, hunched over holding his stomach and laughing so hard his body shakes.
“Get it out,” I urge them as I relax back in the chair, giving them the time they need. I know I won’t live this down, and I’ll admit now, it’s funny. She got me back.
“Aaron Randall O’Shay.”My mother marches toward me griping my face and turning it to the left. “What on earth did you do to your eyebrow?” I let her look me over and try not to laugh when she literally makes a tsking sound.
“Why would you do that?”
“I didn’t,” I tell her as she releases my face and places her hands on her hips, furrowing her brows in confusion.
“Well, then who did?”
“Kendall.”
I watch as my mother mulls over my response.
I’ve watched my mom slowly fall in love with my girl since we left the hospital together. I’ve watched her get to know the woman who holds my heart and I’ve loved every minute of it. Now here she is, trying to figure it all out in her head. I shouldn’t be surprised by her response.
