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“This is going to be hard for you to understand, Lodge, but my relationship with Junie is none of your business.”
“The hell it’s not. She’s my sister. You need to leave her the fuck alone.”
“She might be your sister, but if things go the way I want, she’s going to be my woman, and I don’t give a damn how you feel about that. So back away and let Junie and me work this out.”
“You just can’t stop yourself from going after the women in my life, can you Kingston?”
“Trust me, if I knew Luna was still hung up on you, I would have never tried to go there. And I’ll remind you that it had been thirteen years. At the time, she wasn’t“your”anything.”
“Luna’s always been mine. We just lost our way,” the bastard says, sitting in his seat and stretching out so his feet are on the desk. His smile is one of satisfaction, and I may not be carrying a torch for Luna anymore, but it takes all I have not to kick his seat so the fucker falls on his ass. I roll my eyes instead.
“Whatever. Tell me again why I put up with you, Lodge?”
“I ask the same thing daily about you, Kingston. I reckon it’s because without me you’d probably get killed or something. I always did have a soft spot for mangey strays.”
“Fuck you,” I mutter with a grin as I flip him off—which of course just makes him laugh.
“We’re going to have to talk about you and my sister, Kingston.”
“No, we won’t. Whatever happens is between Junie and me. You’re not involved.”
“Junie isn’t as tough as you think she is, Kingston.”
“I know exactly who Junie is. I also know she’s been dealing with her issues. I let her do that for a fucking year, Lodge. I’m done waiting.”
“A year? What have you been doing for a year?” he asks, watching my face closely. The asshole probably expects me to say I was grieving Luna. Fuck, I don’t know what he expects, but nothing could be further from the truth.
“I’ve been waiting for her.”
“You’ve beenwaiting for her?”
“That’s the condensed version,” I tell him, bringing my coffee cup up to my lips and taking a drink. I swear he’s ruining my caffeine intake. I really should kick him off balance, so he’d fall just for that fact alone.
“Then maybe you should un-condense it?”
“I didn’t figure you’d want to hear how I jacked off to thoughts of your sister naked, but if you want to go there…” I leave my threat with a shrug. I’m rewarded slightly when Lodge’s joking demeanor is washed from his face. I was trying to piss him off. I have hope I did that, until he opens his big fat mouth again.
“You really haven’t been mooning over my wife this whole time?”
“Jesus, fuck, if you thought that then why in the hell did you agree to come to work here? Or keep inviting me to shit, Lodge? You really are a special kind of stupid.”
“I just thought it’d be good to get you out so you could see Luna had moved on,” he mutters, and I shake my head, putting my coffee down on my desk.
“So you’ve been doing all that shit just to show me that you got the girl?”
“Not the way you’re thinking. Hell, you were barely getting out of the house. I thought if you could see that life went on, you’d get out there and find a good woman.”
I think back over the football games and the quick lunches at the diner that he practically had to drag my ass too, after Junie first walked out. There was always some friend of Luna’s there. I barely noticed them at the time, and I didn’t go out of my way to talk to them either. But now that I think back on it, they were single.
“Jesus, you were trying to set me up.”
“Well, that was more Luna than me, but I vetted the women. They looked like good women on paper and none of them were Luna, but they weren’t mud-butt ugly either. So…” he shrugs.
“Mud-butt?Jesus. You really are a fucking asshole, Lodge.”
“Hey, I was trying to help. If I had known you were going home and jacking off to my sister, I would have killed you.”
“You could have tried.”
