“Shut up, Ethan.You ruined my entire evening,” I mutter grumpily.I had planned everything out, and now Eve’s home all alone.“And I’m here with my stick-in-the mud brother.”
I didn’t realize I spoke out loud till Ethan mutters, “You’ve gotten rude as well.”
My eyes swivel towards him, and I grin.“Oops.”
“You’ve got it bad for Eve,” he says, not even bothering to phrase it as a question.
“Shut up,” I grumble.“Life was easier when all I had to worry about was sleeping with a woman, not all this...other stuff.”I run a hand through my hair, knowing there’s no point in denying it anymore.I do have it bad.Catastrophically bad.
“Nobody’s making you do ‘everything else,’” Ethan points out.
I give him an annoyed look.“You wouldn’t understand.Natalie actually loves you back, so it’s easy to be with her.”
Ethan raises his eyebrows.“If you love Eve,” he says, emphasizing the word in a way that makes me want to jump out of the moving car, “you’re going to have to do things you don’t usually do.”
I glance at him and notice the dark circles under his eyes again.A sly grin spreads across my face.“Oh, you mean like getting up four to five times a night to feed a kitten.”
Ethan’s jaw tightens almost imperceptibly.“It makes Natalie happy.”
I let out a bark of laughter.“You are whipped, Ethan.Admit it.”
“Would you like to walk home?”my brother asks icily.I immediately shut up.
“Anyway, whyisMom calling us over today?Is everything okay?”
Ethan overtakes a car, his tone thoughtful.“I believe it has something to do with Megan.”
“Oh.”I immediately press my lips together, and my silence has my older brother looking over suspiciously.
“You know something?”
“What?Me?”I give him a wide-eyed look, the picture of utter innocence.“Why would I know anything?”
“You and Megan are close.If she’s done something, it stands to reason you would know about it.”Ethan’s eyes are tiny slits.“What did she do?”
“Nothing.”I curse myself silently.“I’ve been so busy lately, I’ve not talked to her at all?—”
“Call her.”
“Call who?”I ask stupidly.
“Megan.”
“Can’t.”I hold up my phone before smirking.“My phone’s dead.”
“She better not have done anything stupid, Caleb.And if she did and I find out you knew about it, you’ll be in just as much trouble,” Ethan warns.
“I’m a grown ass man,” I scowl.“I’m not scared of you.”The last part comes out smaller than I intended because Ethan’s glare pins me to my seat.
I’ll have to charge my phone quickly once we get home to warn Megan.I never told Ethan or Jake about the break-in at her apartment.I was going to, but Megan promised she wouldn’t stay there anymore.I should have checked in with her.
Stupid move.
“By the way, I’ve been looking into Joshua.”Ethan’s change of topic has me straightening in my seat.
“You found something?”
“IT’s been monitoring his computer activity.His computer’s been copying Serastra files to cloud storage despite the explicit ban on using any external services for sensitive projects.”
