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“Which is why you said to leash it until today.” I didn’t answer, because I didn’t need to. “There’s fresh coffee in the pot.”
“Thanks.” I headed for the kitchen, hating how it felt like we were strangers.
Blood or not, it meant nothing when it came to betrayal.
“Nick.” He stopped me.
“Yeah?”
“Are we ever going to move past this?”
I stopped in the middle of the kitchen, unable to look at him. “I hope so, for Ryth’s sake.”
He left me to pour a cup and stare out the window, wondering how this all had gone so wrong. It wasn’t just betrayal here. It was the secrets I couldn’t get past. So many fucking secrets, too many. It made it hard to trust and thiscouldn’twork without trust, no matter whose heart was on the line.
I turned around, staring at Caleb as he watched the fire and drank his own coffee. The meeting with Benjamin Rossi was in two days. Two days until we got answers, real answers. Only answers wouldn’t keep us safe, if anything, they’d be more like a target on our backs.
I thought of running, really running, leaving all of this behind. I had enough money to make it happen. Maybe it wouldn’t last forever, but it’d carry us through until we made a new plan.
A plan that would keep us together.
I stared at my brother…
If we made it through this.
Movement from the hallway caught my focus. Tobias glanced toward Caleb, then headed for the kitchen.
“T,” I muttered, motioning to the half-filled pot.
He wasn’t limping as much today, which surprised me after the workout he’d had yesterday beating the shit out of our brother. But he held back. I knew that. I’d seen T consumed with rage and for a second, when we’d rounded the driveway yesterday, I’d thought for sure the Doc was going to add one more dead body to our cold pile.
But as I’d climbed out of the Range Rover and headed their way, I knew that wasn’t going to happen. Not then, at least. I knew that because of who’d stood in his way.
Our sister.
She’dneverlet that happen, not to them…or because of her.
All three of us turned now as Ryth came out of the hallway, yawning, then stopped halfway between the kitchen and the living room, looking at each of us intently. A blush crept into her cheeks as she looked around and headed for the kitchen.
“Morning,” she mumbled.
“Morning.” T turned and handed her the freshly poured cup he’d just taken a sip from.
I stared at the offering, then him. He looked the same and even moved the same. But the man standing in front of me wasn’t the brother I knew. He was different, older and rawer than I’d ever thought possible. I glanced at Caleb as he watched them together with an aching fucking look in his eyes.
Christ, our little sister had changed us all.
She took a sip, wrapped her hands around the mug, and turned around. “Any sign of the others?”
“They’re gone,” I answered.
“Gone?” T glanced my way.
I gave a nod. “Gone.”
“Where?” Ryth looked nervous.
I pushed off the counter. “Back home. He said he had some things to take care of and preferred not to be around when Benjamin Rossi came.”
