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Aiden throws his hands into the air. “What the actual fuck, Carys?”
“Watch it,” Cooper growls.
Aiden’s eyes soften for a minute. “I don’t care how old you are, Carys. You will always be my little sister. It’s my job to protect you. And he...” Then he turns his anger back on Cooper. “You broke the fucking code. She’s younger than you, and she’s your goddamn sister.” His voice grows louder with each angry word. “That’s some fucked up shit.”
I reach over and shove Aiden away as I rise from the table. “I’m two years younger than you, asshole. Sabrina is only fifteen fucking months older than me, and you married her and knocked her up already. What’s the difference?” I yell back at him just as loud.
“Sabrina’s not my sister.” His smug face fuels my anger.
I lower my voice until it’s eerily calm. “He’s mystepbrother, and he was already out of the house before Mom and Coach got married. Don’t make this into something it’s not.”
Aiden stands, towering over me. “Don’t argue semantics, Carys. What he did was wrong.”
Coop’s chair screeches as he stands and shoves it back. “Who the fuck are you to decide what’s right and wrong, Murph? You banged everything with a heartbeat back in school. You didn’t even know half their names. I never disrespected a woman like that.” Cooper crosses his thick arms over his chest and moves around me so that he stands toe-to-toe with Aiden. “Hell, you thought you got a girl pregnant, and you didn’t even remember her name when she told you about it. Don’t think any of us forgot about that.”
Well,shit. That’s news to me.
“You found Sabrina, and everything changed. Because she was your girl, and you fucking knew it.” Cooper’s body is coiled tight like a snake ready to attack.
“You’re revising history,brother.” The word is spit out of Aiden’s mouth in disgust. “You were no saint.”
“You fucked your way through senior year,” Cooper yells.
Murphy holds his ground. “You fucked my sister.”
I gasp, and the backyard goes jarringly silent until Cooper takes one impossible step closer to Aiden. “Don’t ever say anything like that about her again, or I will fucking kill you.” His words are calm and controlled. Spoken slowly, making them even scarier. “I love you, brother, but I lovehermore. Don’t let there be a next time, or I will rip your throat out with my bare hands. Do you understand?”
I close my eyes for a minute and let his words wash over me, mending all the frayed edges of my soul. When I open them, Aiden has a goofy smile on his face, but Cooper is definitely still furious.
“You love my sister?” Aiden asks, his entire demeanor changed.
Without skipping a beat, Cooper answers, “More than anyone ever will.”
I take a stuttered breath for what feels like the first time in months as I fight to hold back the tears threatening to break free. Relief washing over me.
“Wait... wait... wait...” Aiden’s smile grows. “You realize, if you get married, you’re marryingyoursister?” Oh. My. God. He’s giving me whiplash.
Cooper rolls his eyes and shoves Aiden’s chest, like they didn’t just almost come to blows. “When I marry her, I’ll be marrying the woman I love. My sister...” He looks at me, and the undeniable warmth in his eyes leaves me breathless. “Myonlysister is already married, asshole.”
“So, if you have kids—”
I smack my brother. “Enough.”
He turns his sarcastic glare my way. “The fuck it is. If he loves you, I can’t be mad at him. Butyouassholes kept this from all of us for a long time. You were both in my wedding, and we had no idea.”
I clench my thighs, remembering the things Cooper did to me the night of Aiden and Sabrina’s rehearsal dinner and smother the moan that threatens to erupt. When I look up, Coop’s smirking at me. No doubt in my mind, he knows exactly what I’m thinking.
My clueless brother pulls me in for a hug, having no idea the filthy fantasy I lived out that night. He groans as he squeezes my shoulder, “You had to work to keep it from us, and I’m not gonna lie and say that didn’t hurt. We’re never letting you live this down. It’s already been decided.” He slings his arm around Cooper’s shoulders and leaves his other around me. “The others aren’t even pissed. Not really. But we’re gonna give you hell for the rest of your lives over this shit.”
Cooper shrugs out of Aiden’s hold. “Whatever you say, Murph.”
“Seriously... you’re in love with your sister. Come on,” Aiden jokes.
Cooper’s eyes turn hungry as he approaches me. “No, asshole. I’m in love withyoursister.”
He steps between my brother and me, then slides his hand around my neck and squeezes before he kisses me. His lips brush over mine, and butterflies take flight in my stomach as I wrap myself around him and get lost in the moment.
“Okay, okay. Enough. I get the picture.” We both ignore Aiden, savoring this kiss.
