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This was going to be fun, after all.
“I’m not like him,” I lied.
I had more in common with my father than I wanted to admit. If I could mess things up a bit and be a total brat, I’d take the opportunity. I promised I’d never fuck with what belonged to him. But poor daddy, I’d already broken the most important line in the contract, and I couldn’t care less.
“Uh-huh,” Rio responded noncommittal, knowing I was full of shit. He took an already rolled cigarette out of his back pocket and put it behind his ear to fish his lighter out of his jetted pocket. “It wasn’t about Stella. I thought you were aware of that.”
“I know.” And I also knew Rio thought I was talking about the way I wanted revenge. Someday, it was going to happen. And that day had come.
Instead of getting his wife under me, I had someone better in mind.
Dita.
Her name was exotic and intriguing. Not because her initials also reminded me of her tits, but that Latino thing she had going on was hot.
“Oh, okay. Good.” He didn’t think it wasgood. He was convinced our dad had lost his mind again. “Well, Cary’s turned into a saint protecting his precious new family.” Sarcasm dripping off his tongue, he finished his beer and tipped his chin to the exit, so I’d follow him outside. “I spoke to Dita this morning. She looks alright.”
I grinned.
“She certainly does,” I agreed, taking the cigarette he held out for me when we walked onto the gravelly parking lot.
My brother tipped one brow when he looked at me, hearing the suggestive tone in my voice, and lighted the joint before inhaling deeply. “Did I miss something?”
I did the same when he handed it over, welcoming the drug into my lungs before passing it back to him. “You allowed her to come up to our floor. Big mistake.”
He tilted his head, going through the events since Dita’s arrival as he slowly took another drag. A smile appeared after he blew out a string of smoke. “You didn’t!”
“I did.”
“You went in?”
“Dude, the door was unlocked.” I threw out my hand as if to say, Who was that stupid? “How should I have known a girl was bathing in there and using a shit ton of my shower gel?”
It had smelled good on her. She’d looked even better slathered in it. From what I’d seen, anyway. The bubbles she’d used as a shield had been an absolute joke. It had formed around her curves. Those hips… Man, those hips.
I inhaled some smoke again and pushed it back out, throwing the butt on the ground before crunching it with my sneaker.
“Ares,” I looked up, seeing some sensibility radiating in Rio’s eyes. “You only want to get rid of our dad. Just leave the girl alone.”
I nodded, almost giving in to the kindness of my brother. But while he toed the line, I didn’t find anything sweeter than transgress it and come out unscathed.
Rio’s build-in telepathy button switched on. “But you aren’t going to, are you?”
“Nah, I’ve found a new way to unleash my malefic energy.”
He observed my up-to-no-good sparkling eyes and pursed his lips before he burst out laughing. Slapping my back, he joked, “Fuck, that one minute you went without oxygen at birth really did mess you up.”
A crunch under someone’s shoes made me look over my shoulder.
Well, well, speak of the devil.
She almost tripped when locking eyes with me. I cocked a brow, taunting her to come at me. To my disappointment, she dismissed us. She stuck her nose in the air as she picked up her dress and sauntered off as slow as a turtle. The gravel path sure didn’t make it easy to walk in such high heels.
Rio came to stand next to me, both of us watching her having trouble reaching her car. I hadn’t even set one foot in front of me and Rio’s hand came onto my arm again. “You know how exhausting it is to be the big, sensible brother?”
I pretended to yawn. With my lean build and six-foot-three height, I was not little and exactly as big as he was. However, like every twin, someone came second. Which was me. Only fourteen minutes apart and a teeny-tiny bit brain-damaged because the umbilical cord didn’t get stuck around his neck, but mine.
“You’re a boring fucker sometimes, you know that, Rio?”
