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“Well, I want to tell Kat what happened between all of us. I already have Jackson’s blessing, but I wanted to talk to you as well. Since there could be some drama from it–”
“Drama? Why?”
“Well, because you’re Kat’s brothers and I’m her best friend, and a foursome between us is likely going to upset her.”
Harper spoke so sincerely, I felt that she honestly believed that Kat would be mad at her.
“I don’t mean to imply that you don’t know my sister well… but I don’t think this is going to bother Kat as much as you think it will.”
Harper’s brow furrowed and created an adorable expression. “How could it not?”
“Because she’s a modern woman, and she has very modern views on sexuality. Listen, I don’t know much about her sex life, and really don’t want to, but I’m pretty sure she brought two guys home from a friend’s wedding a few years ago, so I don’t think she will be too upset at you for having sex with more than one guy at once.”
“But you’re her brothers, Aiden. There’s a big difference between me sleeping with three random guys I met at a bar and sleeping with her triplet brothers, especially considering the history between all of us.”
“History?” I cocked a brow. “The stuff with our dad?”
“Yeah, but mostly the fact that some bitter feelings remain between her and the three of you.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, you guys used to make her life a living hell, just like you did mine, and she may not be so forgiving because of that.”
“Really?” I was genuinely perplexed.
Harper appeared to know something I didn’t—she stared at me with a shocked look on her face. “You really didn’t know how she felt about you guys?”
“We bickered, like siblings often do, and maybe we aren’t the best of friends, but I wouldn’t say we made her life a living hell. We were always just joking around.”
“To Kat, they weren’t jokes, Aiden. You guys often went way too far.”
“We were kids.”
“Kids or not, you guys really hurt her… often.”
My chest tightened just thinking about it.
“I’m sorry. I guess I never really saw it from her point of view before.”
“Of course not. And I have to say, out of the three of you, Kat favors you more than Jackson and Nathan. She knew that your dad often picked on you, and you were just trying to appease him, but there’s still some hard feelings there.”
Maybe I was more like my dad than I thought.
I had never realized it until Harper pointed out the cruel things I had done to my sister. My mind started going through incidents of the past, and even though Kat eventually stopped crying after we finished messing with her, it dawned on me now that she was still hurt by us.
“I’m going to apologize to Kat, and hopefully make it right. And I’m sorry to you too, Harper. I was a little jackass; I realize that now.”
Harper’s face softened. “Thank you, Aiden.”
“No, thank you. I appreciate your blunt honesty.”
I couldn’t believe this was little Harper Olson. The shy little redheaded girl with the glasses was now a grown woman who told me the cold, hard truth. Some men might be offended by that, but the last thing I wanted in life was to turn out like my dad.
Someone like Harper could make me a better man, I thought.
She smiled, and my insides turned to goo. It was a feeling I had never experienced in my entire life, and for a brief moment, I felt ashamed of that feeling. But I pushed my dad’s hateful words out of my head and allowed myself to feel my emotions.
Harper was truly something else. She was more than a beautiful, curvy body. She had brains. She was confident. She was well-spoken and mature. I could write a novel about all of the traits I admired in this woman.
