Throwing my gym bag over my shoulder, I get into my car. “Did J get in touch with you first?”
I don’t remember giving her Dutch and Zane’s number, but she’s Jinx. It wouldn’t be that hard to get that information.
My brothers fall silent.
“Hello?” I frown at my dashboard, wondering if the call dropped when it synced to the Bluetooth.
“We went to her first,” Zane mumbles.
“Why?”
“Because she’s Jinx,” Dutch grinds out. “We discussed it, and we decided that we just couldn’t trust Jinx with something this important.”
A dark heat hisses through my chest. “You went to confront her.”
“We thought it’d be better to get in front of things before we got screwed over,” Zane explains.
I glare into the darkness. The moon ducks behind the clouds as if to escape my wrath. “Why didn’t you tell me?”
It’s not lost on me that I’m being completely hypocritical. There are a few things I haven’t told my brothers either.
But it’s for their own good.
Cadence and Tina had a complicated relationship, but Tina was still her mother. Will Dutch be okay telling his wife that her husband’s father is the reason her mother is dead?
It’s a new level of despicable. Even for us.
“Come on, Finn,” Zane says hesitantly. “Don’t be like that. We weren’t trying to hide it from you. It’s just?—”
“You like her,” Dutch says plainly.
My grip on the steering wheel tightens.
“I saw it. That night in the chem lab. The way you looked at her, the way you held her—it was obvious.”
My heart thumps to a crazed rhythm.
“Look”—Zane takes over—“we’re not accusing you of anything. We know, better than anyone, how much these things can mess with your head.”
“Thesethings?”
“Love,” Zane says flatly.
I’d laugh, but none of this is funny. “I don’t love Jinx.”
“Fine. But you care about her,” Dutch says, “which makes it hard to be objective.”
My eyes narrow.
Zane stutters, “You have to understand where we were coming from.”
“Jinx isn’t like Cadence or Grey,” Dutch says. “She’s sly and manipulative. I trust you with my life, Finn, but I don’t trust her.”
If I remember correctly, Cadence had an alter ego that Dutch fell in love with long before Cadence ever admitted the truth.
And Grey…
She infiltrated Redwood to take down a crime organization.
