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“I’m nearly thirty years old, Aidan. You can’t keep protecting me forever.”
“Well, why the hell not?”
She had to grin.
Their ma used to joke that as soon as she was born, Aidan decided that Greer was his responsibility.
After their dad died, he’d grown even more intent and serious. He’d tried to be everything for everyone. He’d supported Ma while looking out for Greer and their younger brother, Cash.
But Greer always felt guilty that he’d never had much of a childhood. He hadn’t gotten to do all the stupid things kids did, because he’d been too busy bailing her and Cash out of every misadventure they’d gotten into.
And there had been a lot. Even though Cash was four years younger than she was, they’d always been close.
Or she thought they had been.
Until he’d disappeared.
Then a few weeks ago, Cash had turned up at Aidan’s place on Christmas Day.
No forewarning. No phone call or even a freaking postcard to say he was alive.
Nope. He’d just turned up.
And he had some explaining to do. So far he hadn’t told Aidan where he’d been all this time. Or why he hadn’t contacted them.
She was so freaking mad, and upset, and betrayed. Her emotions felt like they were overflowing, as though she couldn’t contain them anymore. She needed to calm down and breathe.
Just breathe.
She wasn’t responsible for what other people said or did.
I’m safe. I’m loved. Everyone I love is safe.
It’s okay to be angry and upset.
She took a deep breath in and let it out slowly.
“Greer?” Aidan asked urgently. “Are you still there? What’s wrong? Has something happened? Right, stay where you are. I’m coming to get you.”
She rolled her eyes again. At this rate, she was going to give herself a migraine.
“You’re going to drive a thousand miles to come get me, and you want me to wait right here? On the side of the road in Missouri? Aidan, are you listening to yourself?”
“You’ve pulled off the road?” he asked. “Have you pulled right off? What if someone drives up behind you too fast and doesn’t see your car? Have you got your hazard lights on? Are your doors locked?”
“Daddy? What’s wrong? Why are you pacing?”
Greer breathed out a sigh of relief as she heard Livvy’s voice. Even as she felt a strange pang of longing. Was it weird that Greer was a Little and her big brother was a Daddy?
Well . . . obviously, it would be super weird if he was her Daddyandher brother. Which he wasn’t.
Nope.
Their family might have their issues, but that wasn’t one of them.
And she was glad that he’d found Livvy. They both deserved happiness.
She loved Livvy. And she adored those three nephews of hers. Greer had claimed them as her nephews as well. She’d probably never have children of her own. Which meant she was going to spoil any that her brother had.
