“How did you get it past Maree?” I gasped, sitting up in the bed. My ribs were still hurting, but not as muchas the pain in my stomach from hunger. Tierney giggled and got on the other side of the bed and pulled the greasy boxes out of the bag.
“The woman is doing inventory,” Tierney said. “She also happens to hate inventory and is currently muttering to herself about idiot bunnies unable to count.”
I tried not to laugh, but Tierney’s infectious enthusiasm made it hard not to. I pulled the burger from the box and took a bite, moaning as the juicy ingredients burst to life in my mouth.
“Okay, if my brother heard you right now, I’m sure he’d be jealous.”
I giggled. “You don’t want to know about that part of your brother, do you?”
“Ew, no,” Tierney laughed. She bit into her burger and we sat there and watchedFriendson TV. “You’re good for him. He told me a little bit about you over the times he came home.”
“I wish he’d come to see me, to explain.”
“He told me you would have followed him if you didn’t hate him.”
I nodded. “That is true. Wherever he goes, I go.”
Tierney offered me a small smile. “I’ve always wondered what kind of woman would tame my brother.”
“Are you disappointed?”
“No,” she said, looking over at me. “If anything, I’m in awe that he found someone who would do anything for him. That’s rare. Even my dad strayed, and he loved the fuck out of my mum.”
I nodded, remembering the stories Dempsey had told me when we’d been in the Nomads together. He loved his dad but he was so mad at him for being unfaithful to his mother, even if one of those resulted in Bear.
“Are you sure your man wouldn’t do anything for you?” I asked her. “I’ve heard Brogan went loco on your abusive ex.”
“No, that was my brother, not Brogan.”
I smirked, loving that she had no idea. “No, babe, it was Brogan. Dempsey told me he stood back and watched him beat the ever loving fuck out of him.”
Tierney’s eyebrows furrowed into a frown. “Why didn’t he tell me that?”
“Tell you that the straight and narrow Brogan lost his cool because the woman he’s always wanted since he was a teenager was being brutalised by someone she trusted?” I offered.
“How do you know that?”
“It’s obvious, Tierney,” I said, finishing off my burger.
She hid the smile on her face behind her burger, but I could feel her mood elevated which made mine elevate.
“Thank you,” she said, putting her empty burger box in the bag and pulling out a big cup of fries. “For telling me that.”
“We’re sisters now, right?”
Her smile lit up her eyes again and she nodded. “Thank God. I’d begged my Ma for a sister all my life.”
We settled in, and focused on the TV. She’d been everything I had needed after the last few days stuck in bed. As much as I wanted to be out there, I liked that I could form this bond with her. If I was right about Dempsey, we’d be as close as sisters from now on. Finally, a woman I could trust with my life.
The door opened and I made a move to hide the fries before I saw Dempsey’s charming smirk as he closed the door behind him.
“Maree on the rampage?”
“You have no idea,” Tierney said before she pushed off the bed and left me with Dempsey, offering a wink on her way out.
“Have a productive morning?” I asked him as he kicked off his boots and laid down next to me.
“They didn’t show, we went there and well…you know what happened next.”
