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“Because it’s not me any more than it is you.”
“You tookmeto bed,” I say boldly.
“I did.”
“So why not the other women, then?”
He rubs his hand up and down his face and holds up his glass up to the server as she walks by.
“Are you going to answer me?”
“I don’t have a fucking answer for you, Brianna. I wish I did. I wish I could tell you there was some reason that I allowed it to happen. I shouldn’t have. It’s not my style. And I don’t think it’s yours either.”
“Maybe the answer is staring you straight in the face. You just don’t want to acknowledge it.”
He rolls his eyes. “What answer might that be?”
“That youdidwant it. That you wanted it as much as I did. If this isn’t you and it isn’t me, then maybe we both justwantedsomething badly enough and we made it happen.”
“Damn it, Brianna.”
“What? Prove me wrong then, Jesse. Tell me there was another reason. You say you don’t do things like that. Indiscriminate sex isn’t your thing. I told you it’s not my thing either. Yet we both let it happen.”
“You were about to let it happen again tonight.”
“You don’t know that. Don’t presume to know what’s inside my head. I might have called the whole thing off before we got up to the bedroom.”
“God, I hope you’re right. I wish I could say the same for my little sis.”
“I don’t know that she would’ve gone through with it either. Neither of us will ever know now.”
“That doesn’t make me feel much better.”
“She’s a grown woman, Jesse. Just like I am. I’m sure Dale and Donny feel the same way about me as you do about Maddie.”
“Yeah…which is why I can’t ever look either of them in the eye again.”
“You’re being stupid.”
“Seriously? You want to play that game?”
“I’m not playing any games. That’s my whole point. I’m a grown woman, and you’re a grown man. Sure, my brothers wouldn’t like it. They wouldn’t like me having sex with anyone. Just like you don’t like the idea of Maddie having sex with anyone. Just like you hated when Callie started sleeping with Donny.”
He curls his hands into fists, his knuckles going white.
Yeah. I just proved my point.
“It’s different.”
“How the hell is it different? Because Maddie’s so much younger?”
He runs his hands over his hair. “That’s part of it, I guess. I was ten when Maddie was born. You’re even younger than Maddie, Brianna.”
I let out a soft scoff. “Do I have to go through all of this? Brendan and Ava are together. He’s thirty-five and she’s twenty-four. My own parents are ten years apart in age. Uncle Bryce and Aunt Marjorie have an even wider age gap.”
“Were any of them twenty-two when they got together?”
He’s got me there. “My mom was twenty-five. Ava’s twenty-four. It’s close.”
