Jayne, pale and trembling, looked up from Parker’s hair and met Everett’s gaze. “Yes.”
“Is there anything else I should know?” Everett asked. “What happened between you to cause all this?”
Caleb squeezed Everett’s thigh, and from the corner of his eye, Everett saw him tense, but it was too late. Jayne shook his head. “He deserves to know.”
So Jayne began.
Time passed. The leftovers grew cold. Everett’s legs went numb, and with them, his heart. By the time Jayne had finished, he knew what he had to do. What had started as a scuffle outside a club had turned personal. No one deserved to be treated in the way that Bastian had treated Jayne, and now that the bastard had set his sights on Everett and The Shepherd?
It would be his last mistake.
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Jayne
TeenDad2: Hey um…
TeenDad2: so I know you were having a bad day last week or whatever but…
TeenDad2: @GlitterDoctor, did you finally get all your problems sorted out?
TeenDad2: You kind of dropped off the face of the earth for a while so I was just wondering
Jayne, who’d been minutes away from getting up and collecting Parker and Shep, frowned. A week had passed since the night he’d run into Caleb and Everett at Circuit Rush, and while it didn’t seem like much time at all, it had also dragged on for an eternity. Between the legwork he’d had to do in order to get his family’s lost legal documents reissued, filing a claim with his insurance company, and doing his best to settle into his new temporary home, he hadn’t had time for himself, let alone the Single Dads. With so many sudden expenses, taking time off work wasn’t an option, and while Caleb and Everett were inherently helpful, Jayne found he had a hard time delegating tasks their way. Everything he had to do felt too personal.
Shep, who trusted neither of them, was glad for it. According to him, Caleb and Everett were out to get Jayne in the same way that Bastian had been.
Jayne didn’t believe him for a second.
Even if Caleb and Everett were backhanded, they’d already been a thousand times kinder to him than Bastian had ever been.
GlitterDoctor: Partially, yeah. I’m hanging in there.
GlitterDoctor: I think the last thing I told you guys was that things were looking up, right?
TeenDad2: Yep
Gwynning: You mentioned that something good had happened.
Gwynning: I’m pretty sure you referred to it as a ‘wild ride.’
Did every Single Dad have a photographic memory? Jayne winced. If he could go back in time, he would have downplayed what had happened. Instead, he’d piqued the Single Dads’ interest, and he could only imagine how well that was going to go.
So far, he’d managed to keep it a secret from TD that not only was he living with his older brother, but that said older brother wanted to bang.
Badly.
Jayne was fairly sure that if it hadn’t been for how much work it was to have all of his documentation reissued that Caleb and Everett would have charmed him into bed. He’d be lying if he said he didn’t need a good dicking right now.
LoveHarley: ???
LoveHarley: Did something change Glit?
LoveHarley: Did the insurance people get back to you yet?
Oh,fuck.Jayne tapped frantically at the screen to try to get his keyboard to pop up, but his efforts were for naught. Harley, who knew almost everything about his situation thanks to his relationship with Jayne’s brother, had entered the chat, and he was about to fuck shit up.
Gwynning: Glit, what happened?
