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Cat nodded. “Wanna join?”
Nora unwrapped the cord from her finger. “To the clubhouse?”
“I think so. I don’t know what he was up to, honestly.”
“Okay...” Nora tried for a smile, but she couldn’t fool Cat.
Cat slung her arm around her twin’s shoulder. “Are you sure? I know you hate it there.”
Cat and Nora had been invited twice to the clubhouse for Sunday cookouts after she’d crashed on Turtle’s dirt bike last year.
“I’m sorry I’ve been hiding more,” Nora said.
Cat bumped her sister’s shoulder with her own. “It’s okay. You know I can’t get mad at you.”
Nora’s giggle warmed Cat’s stony heart. “Liar. You get mad at me all the time.”
Cat couldn’t deny it. The brewing anger had her so strung out; she could snap at any moment.
“Okay, Dev will be here soon. You want to borrow something from my closet?”
Nora shook her head. “I’m not changing. I love this dress.”
Cat sighed. “We’re going to one of the most notorious biker gangs in Texas and you want to hang out in your yellow summer dress with white polka dots?”
Nora narrowed her eyes. “What’s wrong with my dress? We don’t have to look alike. Isn’t that what you always say?”
Cat had to give Nora credit for throwing her own words back into her face.
“Yeah, but—”
Nora stood from the bed. “No buts. Let’s go.”
Cat grabbed her sister’s hand and smiled. “I like this new side to you, sis.”
Nora blushed as they walked out of their room towards the stairs and sneaked out of the house on their tippy toes while they heard their parents argue in the kitchen.
Cat waved at Devlin as his truck slowed to a stop in front of them.
Devlin turned around in the front seat, watching them get in. “Hey, girls. You okay?”
Cat shrugged. “Nah. Dad didn’t come home for two nights.”
Devlin’s eyes turned into slits as he glared at the house. “Asshole.”
“Yeah, well… Mom told me to shut up. She believed his wacky story about him having too much to drink at work and needing to crash on his co-worker’s sofa—for two nights…”
“Maybe he did…” Nora said, even though they all knew she also didn’t buy into their dad’s story. Why her sister still needed to defend him was a complete mystery to Cat at this point.
Cat stared out of the backseat window in silence. It was hard to watch Nora slowly turn into their mother. Maybe they should spend some time apart so Nora could deal with her parents alone instead of Cat always speaking up for everyone.
With Devlin living at the IVMC compound and their other older brother Kieran working all hours at the fire station, Nora and Cat were the ones taking most of the brunt of their parents, because their three-year-younger brother Finn didn’t care about anything but playing stupid video games up in his room.
“You’re in luck. I was just on my way to the club for a cookout.”
“If those girls I saw last time made it, I’m not eating. I’d hate to see what comes up if you’d checked their hands with a CSI lamp.”
Devlin kept his face stern as he drove through the opened compound gate.
