Big mistake.
Huge fucking mistake.
We’re talkingmammothhere.
I watched them go down on each other while I seethed with jealousy and fought the urge to run in there and join them. Iknew my jealousy would fade if I just gave myself time to cool off and a night spent outside keeping watch had done the trick.
I was supposed to wake my brother up for second watch but I didn’t. I let him sleep the whole night with his arms wrapped around the woman we both loved. It was my apology to him for the jealous rage he’d never know I felt towards him.
The sun had eventually come up and the night was now over.
And now it was time to wake them up so we could figure out what the hell was going on so we could work on a game plan to put a stop to it.
Because I wasn’t a stupid man, I started out making coffee. Ariel was a straight up monster in the morning and she needed coffee to calm her ass down enough to make her seem semi human again.
This was a lesson I had learned the hard way and never wanted to experience for myself again. It had scarred me. Seriously.
I woke them both up and started making breakfast for the three of us while they took turns in the bathroom. This place had thankfully come with a fully stocked fridge and jam packed cupboards. I didn’t think we would be going out to eat anymore on this trip with Ariel and I needed to eat. If I didn’t eat I could get really moody.
With no sleep and no food? Things could get really fucking sketchy really fucking quickly.
I whipped up eggs, bacon, sausage and biscuits. And I made enough to feed a small army because I knew I could eat most of it by myself.
We sat around the breakfast bar and loaded up our plates.
Ariel waited until we were all done eating and I was cleaning everything up to confront my brother about what went down yesterday. I hadn’t bothered asking him myself because I knew she was going to do exactly this. I was mostly surprised she’d letit go on for this long. She was the most confrontational person I knew outside of her husband Quinton. She’d stopped running away from her problems a long time ago. Mostly.
Okay, that was a lie. She had only stopped running away from her problems when it was convenient for her.
“So, this number that was left in our hotel room. Should we call it right now and get it out of the way so we can enjoy the rest of our day or what?”
I laughed.
My brother glared at the both of us. Apparently getting his dick sucked hadn’t made him any sweeter.
I couldn’t wait to see what it did for me.
“We?” Trenton asked incredulously.
She was going to kick his ass all over the place and I couldn’t wait to see it happen. I might even film it on my phone so she and I could watch it together later.
She arched an arrogant eyebrow at him and took on a haughty look that she’d clearly perfected. I wondered if she’d learned it from Quinton because that motherfucker handed out the same fucking look to every single person he came in contact with. Not even the children were safe from it.
He was an asshole and clearly Ariel Kimber had been taking detailed notes.
“Yes,we,Trenton. We’re all in this together and Simon and I both deserve to be kept in the loop on everything. So, that means you’re going to make that phone call here in front of us and you’re going to do it on speakerphone so you can’t keep anything from us.”
She meant herself because my brother and I didn’t keep secrets from each other. But if she wanted to use me to her benefit I didn’t care in the slightest.
My brother sighed before reaching into his pants pocket and pulling out his cellphone along with the card.
Ariel beamed at him because she knew she’d gotten her way. I rolled my eyes because she’d always get her way and she damn well knew it.
Trenton dialed in the number, hit the speaker button, and sat the phone down face up on the counter between us.
It rang five times before being answered by a deep, rough, male voice. “Hello.”
“You left your little calling card in my hotel room,” Trenton growled as he leaned over the phone threateningly. “Now this is me calling. What the fuck do you want?”
