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But I wouldn’t want Glenn dead.
I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
Not even Glenn.
Chapter Twenty-Three
“Hey.” Lix enters the room.
I glance up from the tile in my hand. “Did you get Mom to sign those papers for the new lawyer yet?”
“No,” Lix says, moving into the room without making eye contact.
He’s been like that for days.
I know what’s up his ass. It’s up mine as well.
Doesn’t mean I’m going to let it go. Not when it comes to Mom’s future. I flick off the wet sander. “What the fuck, Lix? Sofia can’t reopen Mom’s case without it. I asked you to do one thing, and you can’t even—”
“I’ll work on her, Brett.” Cole intervenes, recognizing the escalating tension between Lix and me.
I glance at the Daxon mediator before flashing my eyes back to Lix.
Fuck this shit.
If we’re going to have it out, now is good a time as any.
I toss the tile on the floor. Like my life, it shatters into pieces. As par, I ignore it and move toward my little brother. “What the fuck is your problem?”
“Oh, I don’t know.” He smirks.
I hate the condescending expression. He knows it. He gives it to me every time we have a dispute about a job or something. “Why don’t you tell me?”
“What’s that supposed to mean, asshole?” I shove him in the chest.
He barely moves from the excessive push. He’s a tough little shit. I’m not afraid of him. I can’t be, but that doesn’t mean any other fucker who encounters him shouldn’t be.
“Cassie hasn’t been here in a week.” His eye twitches as his hands clench into fits. “What’d you do to her now” —he leans in toward me— “asshole.”
My lip curls, and my arm hauls back.
“Okay!” Cole jumps between us, catching my arm in the air. “That’s enough.” He pushes my arm back, looks at Lix, and then me. “We gotta get this job done. We don’t have time for this bullshit. Whatever issues you have with Brett, you need to let it go, Lix.”
“Yeah. Stay out of my business, little bro,” I warn Lix, prepared to get at least one punch in to teach him a lesson.
“No problem, big bro.” Lix smirks, again tweaking my ready fist. “The way I see it, she’s going to be gone in a few weeks anyway,” Lix says, and while knowing the truth isn’t the same as hearing it. Especially coming from him. “And when the time comes, you better let her go.” He nods before exiting the room.
Cole turns to me. “What the hell?”
“Fuck him.” I wave.
“Why hasn’t Cassie been around? Did something happen?”
I pick up the broken tile I dropped on the floor. “I did what you suggested. I took her on a date. Then showed up at her house with a pizza and shit.”
Cole’s eyebrow rises. “And?”
“And.” I toss the broken pieces of tile into the garbage can. “Everything was going good.” I brush the tile dust from my hands.
