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“Yeah. We came up with a plan.”
“A plan for what?”
He rubbed the back of his neck, anxiety radiating off of him.
“To take your money.”
Our chests heaved in sync with one another, our heated emotions running wild. I could feel his remorse surrounding every last part of me. Just like a ticking time bomb, I waited for it to explode in my face.
“How did you know Tessa?”
“We randomly met at a bar one night. I thought I loved her.”
“So what? That makes it okay?”
“No. I’m sorry, Caleb. I wasn’t thinking. I would never—”
“I don’t want to hear your pathetic excuses! Now fucking tell me what else you need to say!”
He hesitated for a moment. “The plan was to get you to marry her, but we didn’t know how until she ran into you and Evie at a pool party. For years she thought something was going on between you two, but as you know, Evie was your best kept secret. One night when she was in the shower, Tessa snuck into her bedroom and looked at her phone. After months of trying to figure out her password, she finally nailed it. It was your birthday.”
The realization hit me like a ton of fucking bricks. “That’s how she knew Jax was Evie’s brother.”
He nodded. “She found their text messages when she was looking for yours. I followed you around for weeks, trying to figure out how we could get you to marry her. We needed more ammunition other than blackmailing you with Jax, in case it wasn’t enough to convince you to marry her. It was the only way, Caleb.”
“What was?”
“You’ve always done the right thing. It’s who you are. It’s how you’re made.”
I was aware of where he was going with this. “You knew I’d marry her if she was carrying my baby.”
“Yeah.”
I tugged my hair away from my face, wanting to tear it the fuck out. “So you waited until I was shitfaced to make your plan go into effect. That’s why Tessa was in Evie’s bed that night.”
He nodded again. “Except we couldn’t risk her not getting pregnant.”
I grimaced, hanging on by a thread. “No … please don’t tell me…”
I thought I could handle anything the world threw at me. Especially when it came to my brother. However, nothing could have prepared me for what happened next.
Not his lies.
Not his truths.
Not. One. Damn. Thing.
The atomic bomb didn’t just explode in my face. It erupted throughout my entire body, leaving very little in its place as he declared, “Ethan’s my son.”
BOOM.
It was loud.
Tragic.
Triggering me to see nothing but fucking red.
Bright. Bold. Red.
