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“Cole has a girlfriend,” John, one of my now former friends, calls out in a singsong voice. “K.I.S.S.I.N.G. First comes love–”
“Enough.” I spin on my heel. This day has gone to shit. It would be one thing if I came to her defense because she was interested in me, but she’s not. Now, I look like a dumbass.
“I bet she’s a hellcat in the sack.” John laughs as Connor smacks him in the chest.
“Bite me.” My jaw tightens until it feels like my teeth are going to crack. I jog back to our makeshift football field.
“If you’re not going to ask Harbor out on a date….” John waggles his eyebrows. “I’m going to.”
All four of her brothers watch me like they’ve joined the Meadow Bay police force and are prepping for the detective test.
“Kiss my ass.” I punch him in the gut and bite back the words, ‘Over my dead body.’ Those words would end any hope I have of shifting their attention off my slipup.
Austin grabs the back of my head and shoves it between his arm and his chest, effectively putting me into a headlock. “You know the deal. You fuck with our sister, and we’ll cut your dick off.”
My jaw flexes as the realization hits. She was jealous, right?
She frowned when I was talking to Dakota.
She asked if I was dating her again.
There was a hint of disapproval in her stance.
With anyone else, that would spell jealousy.
What does it matter? Even if she was, is, whatever, I’d have to choose her over her brothers and end up losing the people who’ve been there for everything from the first day of kindergarten to Hadley choosing the big city over me.
Get your head out of your ass. She wasn’t jealous. She was glaring at you because she doesn’t like you.
Chapter Three
Several Hours Later
Harbor
“Connor.” My mom glares at him for the twentieth time today. “Quit talking smack towards your sister.”
Most of their friends have left, leaving only my brother and Cole behind as we clean up the kitchen. Cole is outside on his cell phone, probably calling his date for the night.
My teeth grind together. Why don’t I stay away? Even if, by some crazy stretch of the imagination, he ever noticed me, my brothers would ruin it. They’d ride him until he couldn’t take it any longer, and then, he’d dump me. It would last two days. If we kept it from them for 47 of those hours.
“Why?” Connor raises his hands in defense. “She always wanted to be one of the guys, and this is how I talk to the guys.”
