While I wear that badge with pride, kind sir, we are, in fact, not hanging out here tomorrow. Raven is itching for our Little Luna to get to put her adorable little feet in the grass. And what my girls want, my girls get. So picnic at your house out on the lawn it is.
Kane
Good. Emery and Maci have been in the kitchen all afternoon preparing while I’ve been sweating away getting the backyard ready, so there is zero room for disappointment here. They need every single one of this family in attendance. Cash included.
I could feelthe prod coming at me through the phone where I paced behind the closed door of my office as I read through the text thread with my brothers that had been pinging in over the last twenty minutes.
Every weekend, they included me on this ridiculous thread where they basically gave each other shit as confirmations were made that everyone was going to be in attendance.
I was threatened every time, and each time, I came up with some excuse why I couldn’t be there.
It wasn’t like I didn’t care about them.
Guess if I was being honest, it was the fear of caring too much.
Something that I couldn’t have when I’d pilfered everything else away.
I was lucky as fuck that I had them in the way that I did.
These guys who would have my back under any circumstance, no matter what. And their fucking sweet women who bent over backward trying to make me feel loved and welcome.
And their kids…
I inhaled a shaky breath, pacing in the darkness that had fallen over the land about thirty minutes ago.
Voices and pounding feet seeped in through the wall. No barriers to be found as Daisy rushed her kids around getting them ready for bed.
The entire day had been spent with them.
From the first crack of the morning when I’d been leaving my office hunting for that motherfucker and had run into Colin coming out of the bedroom door with mussed hair and sleepy eyes and the cutest smile on his face.
Through the morning and afternoon working on fortifying the railing of the porch so they would be safe out back to another delicious dinner that Daisy had insisted on preparing.
All while I’d toiled with the chaos that had crashed into my life. The promise that had been made and the role I was taking on.
Mind bent with what I had done.
How the fuck was I supposed to deal with this?
Daisy was the last person I deserved to have in my life.
She was the last trace of what I’d caused. What I’d done.
The only thing I could do was remember this was temporary.
This arrangement was fake.
It wasn’t real.
I owed her this, no matter how painful it was going to be.
Blowing out a heavy sigh, I sucked it up and tapped out a message.
Me
I’ll be there.
It took all of a second for messages to start blazing in.
