Grimm lifted a brow.
To show him I understood him, I lifted my chin.
Then I stood there as I watched Merlin walk to my sister.
He pulled something out of his kutte, got in her face, conversed with her, and handed her a card.
On his way back, he locked his gaze with mine, but I looked away and at my sister.
Only to see the corner of her lip tipped up in a sneer at Merlin’s back.
I sighed when he reached us and asked, “What did you say to her?”
Merlin sighed, “Handed her a voucher for a free ride to the clinic over on Havanship Lane. And a card that will get her four days to detox. Told her if she didn’t get her shit straightened out, she wasn’t welcome.”
“She ain’t been around. Doubt it’ll work.” Wolf said.
Merlin shrugged, “He’s our brother. By default, that makes her our sister.”
I lifted my chin in thanks.
But it fell on deaf ears because he turned his gaze away and missed it.
I knew that I needed to stop trying to help her.
That enough was enough.
But she was all I had left.
The only piece of any semblance of a family I’ve ever known until I met my brothers.
How in the fuck was I going to turn my back on that?
***
What I didn’t know was that it was going to be easy.
But what was going to be hard... was gettingherto forgive me for doing something that causedherto be hurt.
‘The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.’
– Ashley Montagu.
Chapter4
Kimber
Present Day
I thought that I would have a few moments of quiet time before everything that was my family descended upon me.
I was wrong.
Oh, so wrong.
Because at the ass crack of dawn, literally, my phone was blowing up.
And all because my mother thought it would be a grand idea to have a group chat with all of the women in our family. Together.
