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“What the fuck?” Ella says, lurching off her barstool and nearly toppling forward again.
Riggs snakes out a hand, draws her back against him, saving her from face planting, and clearly, I should have cut her off a few honey rosemary mules ago.
But I don’t have time to feel guilty about that.
Lake is turning, his fingers tightening on mine, drawing me behind him.
Putting his body between me and my ex and—
Butterflies.
“Are you fucking stupid?” Lake snaps.
I tug against his hold, trying to shift enough to see something that isn’t Lake’s broad back. He doesn’t let me move in front of him, but I do succeed in gaining a couple of inches to the left.
Which is enough to see George’s dumb face.
And my sister’s smirking one.
My sister who’s all but floating, tossing her head, sending the shoulder length—and the petty queen in me sayscrispy, since she’s far too fond of the bleach—floating behind her.
God, she’s even lifting her hand to—
Lifting her hand.
Herlefthand.
I frown, lean closer, and—
Go absolutely still.
“You’re engaged,” I breathe.
Her smirk widens. “No, sissy. We’remarried.”
I rock back on my heels. “What?”
George puffs up his chest, and my shock fades. What is their end game here? Do they think, after what they did, that I’ll be upset about this news? Does George think I’m going to beg him to give me some scraps of a relationship after he fucked my sister?
After he put his hands on me? After he hurt Steve?
And my sister—she’s staring at me just as expectantly. Like she wants to get a reaction out of me, like she wants to hurt me.
And…I suppose she does.
“I don’t get you,” I say to her.
She smiles coldly.
I shore my spine, straighten my shoulders. “I don’t get why you want to hurt me. What did I ever do to you?”
Her chin comes up and she looks away.
And…I want answers, but I have the feeling that I’m not going to get the ones I want.
“This is one of those times when you can just move forward, butterfly.”
I jerk, my belly fluttering as I look up, get lost for a moment into Lake’s pretty eyes of gold and green and brown.
