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I needed to fix this shit fast before my woman fucking walked out the door. As it was, she was avoiding me. She wouldn’t even look me in the eye.
“Why the fuck are you even here? Go stay at a fucking hotel.”
Kansas grinned, taking a seat. “Hell no. I wouldn’t miss this shit for anything.”
“Won’t think it’s fun when Malice corners your ass.”
That shut little brother up fast. “Why?”
Rubbing my hands down my face, I sighed. “Because so far everyone I’ve been with has checked out. The board is now digging deeper into my past.”
“And just how far back are they digging?”
“Until they find the bitch,” I stated, picking up an envelope holding it out for him. “This came this morning.”
Kansas took it and read the contents.
His head snapped to mine. All laughter gone. “Is this some fucking joke?”
I shook my head. “No. Dad called Arizona. He’s flying in immediately.”
“What about Dakota?”
“He’s working a protection detail for the club. He can’t leave his post.”
Kansas huffed, shaking his head. “You sure about that? Because last I knew, Dakota does exactly what the fuck he wants. Besides, this happened twenty years ago. What the fuck is going on?”
That was the million-dollar question.
“I haven’t discussed this with the board yet because I wanted to speak to you first. As far as I’m concerned this is a family matter. I would prefer we kept it that way.”
Kansas placed the envelope and the contents on my desk. “As far as I’m concerned there is nothing to discuss. It was an accident. She died.”
“You didn’t think that when I showed up in Oklahoma?”
“That was before I damn near lost Kali. Kind of put shit into prospective for me. Montana, I know I blamed you for years for something that was out of your control. I want to apologize for that. You were a kid. Hell, we all were. It was a shit show, and you did your best.”
Fuck. I waited damn near twenty years to hear my baby brother say those very words. It’s all I ever wanted. Now, I wasn’t so sure I deserved them because I needed to tell him the truth about that day and when I told him, I would lose him forever.
When the second the envelope arrived, a nagging suspicion took root. It was so outrageous it had to be impossible. Why, after all these years, would someone send me something about that day? It made no sense. We were all kids back then. What happened was an accident.
“Kansas, I need to tell you something about Amy.”
“What about her?”
“About that day.”
Kansas narrowed his eyes and growled. “What?”
Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath and remembered that bitter day in December.
“Come on Arizona. We’re going to be late!” Kansas shouted, jumping into the backseat of my candy apple red 1972 Plymouth Duster. I loved my car. It wasn’t very often I drove it, but knowing my brothers would be with me, Mom insisted I drive the car because the weather forecast was expecting snow later tonight. Snow was nothing new in New York City.
The big apple.
My hometown.
I loved everything about the city, from the excitement to the shitty people, but right now, I was about to lose my shit if my brother, Arizona, didn’t get his ass in gear.
