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I didn’t live under a rock, I just didn’t waste a lot of time watching TV and movies. Except for Love Island. It had become an addiction. I still didn’t understand why I watched it, but I was on season six of the UK series. I just had the final two episodes left. But I planned on finishing it tonight and then never speaking of it again.
“Well, big brother, Cuba basically tells Cruise that you can’t casually date a single mom.”
I lowered my head and continued scrubbing. The last thing I needed was to get relationship advice from Billy, whose nickname up until a few months ago was “Panty Dropper.” Reagan had changed all of that, but still.
“You need to be careful there.” The warning tone in my brother’s voice had my hand stilling and my eyes raising to meet his again.
Did he actually think he needed to tell me that?
Did he think I’d ever do anything to hurt either Skylar or Luna?
Because if he did, then my brother didn’t know me at all.
“I’m not talking about them,” Billy explained, apparently reading my mind. “I’m talking about you. I was just giving you shit about the shoplifting the pootie talk.”
“Is this about the curse?”
I’d talked to Billy when he met Reagan and he’d said that he didn’t believe in the damn thing. And I sure as hell didn’t believe in it, so I wasn’t sure why he’d bring it up.
“No, not the curse. I’m talking about you.”
“Me?” I’d been taking care of myself and everyone else for as long as I could remember.
“Yes, you, big brother. You act all big and bad, but I know better. I remember how you were with Melody and then after she left what a miserable SOB you’d been.”
That was more about losing the baby than losing her, but I couldn’t tell him that since he hadn’t even known there was a baby.
“Don’t get me wrong. I like Skylar.” Billy lifted his arms gesturing to where she was talking to my sisters, her sister, and Nadia. “Hell, everyone does. But what do you even know about her? She shows up in the middle of the night with a kid and no job.”
“It’s fine.” I understood where my brother was coming from, but her business wasn’t mine to tell.
“What if she just takes off one day? What if you wake up and they’re gone? I don’t want to see you hurt like that.”
I appreciated that my brother was worried, especially since I knew I wasn’t his favorite person right now, but he didn’t need to be.
“I’m fine,” I repeated.
And I was. At least, that’s what I was telling myself. If that really happened, if I woke up one day and they were gone…I’m not sure what I’d be.
