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“It’s working,” Cali stated.
“Don’t let it.”
“And Remy, you said you need all of our help. That includes Cali. So, be nice!”
“Okay, fine. I’ll be nice. I’m sure you have a lovely town filled with lovely people.”
Cali’s intensity melted eventually letting him go.
“And I’m sure only half of you share the same father,” Remy added unable to help himself.
Cali’s head snapped towards Remy but this time he didn’t react. He just stared at him.
“Remy?” I chastised.
“Fine, a quarter of you.”
“Remy!”
“There’s only so much…”
“Remy, you need his help.”
He sighed and gathered himself.
“This,” he said gesturing to the bed ‘n breakfast. “This is… lovely. Truly lovely. You should feel proud to have grown up in a place like this. Hil and I didn’t and I’m sure we were made worse for it.”
Remy turned to me.
“Are you happy?”
“I am,” I said again surprised by his softer side.
“Thanks,” Cali replied suddenly confused and disarmed. “You, ahh, want some breakfast? Your brother really knows his way around a kitchen.”
“Does he?” Remy asked with shocked delight. “That’s one of those things I’ll need to see to believe,” my guy said before sitting at the table and becoming a part of our group for the first time.
After we enjoyed Hil’s impressive breakfast, Cali cleaned the dishes as the four of us brainstormed a plan. Remy described Hil’s and my ideas as being ridiculously naïve, though he was sure to throw in a complement when it came from me. And my man described Cali’s ideas as sociopathic, but to be fair, they were.
“We could just bomb the place and be done with it,” Cali suggested while washing a plate.
“And that’s an option,” Remy replied before mouthing to me ‘Is he serious?’
I looked at Hil for the answer. Hil’s eyes bounced between the two of us with a look that said that he didn’t know.
“That’s what he did to us,” Cali clarified. “Isn’t that what people like him do?”
“Right. The bomb in the trunk thing,” Remy said reminding us of what Armand’s henchman did while trying to kill Hil. “So let’s say we plant a bomb in his house and we kill him. We would have killed a man. You, with your small town ‘Ah shucks’, and please and thank yous, do you think you could live with that?”
“Why should we care what happens to him?” Cali asked bitterly.
“Okay,” Remy said getting uncomfortable. “I know he shot you…”
“Yeah, he shot me,” Cali said turning with venom.
“I know he shot you,” Remy repeated trying to calm him down. “But, there would be no way you could live with yourself if you were a part of that. Yes, Armand is a piece of trash who doesn’t deserve to live. But, you don’t want to be the person who makes that happen. Trust me.”
A knot in my stomach developed listening to Remy’s plea. As it did, a heartbreaking truth dawned on me. It was the same for Hil and Cali.
