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“Where the hell is my sister?”Sasha yells in Colton’s face while Benjamin tries to hold her back.
“Jesus, Sasha.I’m right here,” I mumble.
This is the last thing I wanted to deal with this morning, especially before I’ve even had a single sip of coffee.
“Oh sweetie, I heard about the fire,” she says as she turns to face me, shrugging off her husband’s hands.“What the hell are you wearing?”My sister glares.
I look down at the yellow T-shirt and see on the front it reads,‘I heart firemen’in big, black letters.It’s one of those designs with the big old red heart right in the middle of the lettering.
“Seems appropriate to me.I’m alive because of a firefighter, you know?”I say while walking past her.I’m being a little bitchier than normal but that’s because I am not a morning person.I need at least one cup of java before I can face people and be the friendly person most people know.
“Coffee,” I grumble when I reach Colton’s side and he chuckles before handing me his mug and slinging his arm across my shoulder.
“Morning,” Colton smiles as he caresses my cheek and I get lost in his dark gaze.
Maybe I’m still asleep?This entire interaction is at around a ten on my weirdness meter.Why is Colton staring at me like he wants to take a bite?And he keeps on touching me like it’s normal.Can smoke inhalation cause hallucinations?
“So, you are really fucking her?”Sasha demands, bringing me back to the present.
Colton’s grip on my shoulder tightens at her words, clearly already irritated by my sister.Shaking my head, I look around the kitchen taking everything in, trying to orientate myself and figure out if I am actually awake.The kitchen is on the smaller side with dark, wooden cabinets, white countertops, yellow curtains, and a little table with two chairs in front of the bay window.I can’t hallucinate something I’ve never seen before, can I?So, I must be awake, and this must be real.
“Not that it’s any of your business,” I say calmly, facing my sister once more.“But Colton has been the perfect gentleman.”
“I can’t believe you would do this to me,” she says in a melodramatic whisper.“You’re my sister,” she hisses as she leans forward across the countertop.
“I haven’t done anything.”
I lean forward too, resting my elbows on the white surface.The shirt I am wearing rides up the back of my thighs.I feel Colton’s finger graze the exposed skin and I nearly swallow my tongue.What thefuck?
“You need to come with me,” Sasha demands.
“Why?”
“Because I said so!”She stomps her foot like a two-year-old in mid-tantrum.
“I don’t think so,” I say taking another sip of Colton’s coffee before handing it back.
“Babe,” Benjamin says taking my sister’s hand.“Echo is fine.Colton would never let anything happen to her.Let’s head out.”
She rips her hand from his.“Are you insane?Can’t you see he is trying to seduce her to get back at me?”
She doesn’t even turn to look at him as she spews her insane theories.Sasha glares at myself and Colton.She looks at both of us in turn and I see the moment she thinks she has the situation figured out.
“Aren’t you just the perfect scene of domesticated bliss?”Her voice lowers, and I know she is about to say something that will either hurt me or piss me off.“I remember when I used to sleep in his t-shirts and share his coffee.It wasn’t that long ago actually.”
Colton bursts out laughing behind me and I feel the vibrations all the way to my toes.He wraps an arm around my waist before resting his chin on my shoulder.
“You hate the way I drink my coffee and you have never slept in one of my t-shirts.If I remember correctly, you said they weren’t sexy.”
I burst out laughing at his words while Sasha turns a molten shade of red as her temper spikes.
“I think you should take your wife home nowBennybefore she has an aneurysm.Echo is perfectly safe,” Colton addresses his former best friend.
The way he said Benny, the disdain in his voice, has something becoming clearer to me.I never knew whom exactly my sister cheated with but now it makes sense that Colton would suddenly hate his best friend.I didn’t see it at the time, but now I do.
“Buh-bye,” I give a little wave as my brother-in-law escorts my sister out of Colton’s house while she continues to scream hateful things at us.
But I can’t hear a damn word she is saying because Colton is holding me, his erection pressed against my ass and his breathing in my ear.
