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We get what we need, which mostly includes Zacia and Lex’s dog, a wiry-haired terrier who seems to think he should be best friends with Zacia.
CHAPTERTWENTY
LANDON
“I’m thrilled I finally get to go inside!” Deus says as he eyes my house. “I’ve been outside ita lot. I even, you know…”—he draws a line across his throat—“a guy out back, but I haven’t been in it yet.”
Well, that’s alarming. “Is there adeadguyin my backyard?”
“Not anymore. Obviously, I wasn’t just going to leave him there,” Deus says as though I’m the crazy one.
“Dear god,” I mutter as I quickly unlock the door and usher everyone in. The one I’m most surprised about is Ellison, who doesn’t really seem to know what he’s doing but is going to look suave doing it.
I freeze the moment I enter the house and look Brandon right in the eyes where he’s sitting on the couch butt naked.
“What… thefuck?” I growl.
“Oh hey, little bro… I didn’t know you were going to be home. Welcome home!”
“Don’t say that like you think youlive here. How long have you been here?”
Brandon scratches his nutson my couch. I’m going to have to burn it. “Lex, burn the couch, please. Preferably with Brandon on it,” I order.
“You weren’t living here, and Mom and Dad were being annoying, so I was just… rooming a bit. I thought it’d be fun!”
“Where’d you get the keys?” I ask in disbelief.
“Mom gave them to me when I told her I wanted to check your house out.”
Why the hell does she havekeys?
“Out,” I say as I jab a finger at the door.
“But… but… your bed’s so comfortable.”
“You… you slept in my bed.” The horror… how… how could this have happened to me? What have I done to deserve this?
“Oh, I also used your toothbrush because I forgot mine at home,” he says.
“Oh dear god… I have to get rid of him. I have to simply… destroy him,” I say.
Brandon sighs as he looks at his phone. “Oh! My girl wants me to come over. Says she can’t sleep and needs a big man to hold her tightly. See ya later,” he says as he gets up and looks around for his pants which he finds on the table, his underwear sitting on top of one of my favorite books.
“I can kill him for you,” Deus says.
“Please do,” I say. “Just… shoot him.”
“Understood,” Deus says as he lifts his gun and shoots Brandon right in the chest.
Everyone jumps and Lex lets out a noise. “What the fuck, DEUS?” I ask.
Deus looks at me in shock. “You said to shoot him!”
“I waskidding.”
“I’m sure he’ll live. I only shot him right in the heart!” Deus says as Brandon brushes the bullet off his chest.
“You have some weird friends, bro,” Brandon says as he pulls his shirt on, gives me a hug of death, kisses me disgustingly loud on the lips, and heads out the door.
