It’s Kannen looking damn fine in a mugshot.
I grab the phone and scan the sheriff’s social media post. There are more than five hundred thousand likes as well as thousands of comments.
“And that’s just on one platform,” Rainee says.
“It’s also all over the local and national news social media,” Sunny says.
I’d like to invite him to my house when he’s wearing nothing but that hat, I read one of the comments aloud. I move on to the next one. Throw me in jail with him. I’ll teach him how to be a good boy.
I clench my teeth. I’ll ride that cowboy and save my horse, lol. I could teach him a lot of things.
I grip the phone harder. “She sounds like a cougar.”
“Cougars gotta eat, too,” Tempest jokes.
“That’s…” Pissing me off? Why? He’s not mine. That’s right. I ended this before it could start a heartbreak. I pass the phone back to Sunny. “They’re asking for his number and one woman said she’d make a trip to Lucky River to meet him and treat him to a long, hot night.” Something feral in me wants to snatch her bald.
“He’s good looking. Can you blame them?” Tempest asks.
Yes. Hell, yes, I can blame them because…because…fuck it. Because I can.
“The funny thing is, the post says he was arrested in this vicinity.” Rainee lifts her brows at me. “As in by your house.”
“Naked,” Sunny adds.
“Very naked,” Rainee says.
“With an impressive package,” Tempest says.
“He was clearly on a night delivery,” Rainee says with a laugh.
“If that’s true, where can I sign up for a dick delivery?” Tempest asks and they all laugh.
“Yeah, what happened?” Sunny moves to the sofa and plops down.
“Nothing.”
“Then how’d he’d end up here?” Rainee asks.
My sisters give me their we-know-better-than-that look.
“Fine.” I spill everything from what I realized about Kannen looking out for me in school to the wild night we shared.
“He always had my back even when I didn’t know,” I say, feeling more miserable than I did before.
Sunny clicks her tongue and grins. “And another weather girl bites the dust.”
“What do you…no. Nothing more is going to happen between us.”
“Why can’t it?” Rainee demands.
“Hold on a second before you imagine her halfway down the aisle. I think she’s right. Nothing should happen between them,” Tempest argues. “Stormy needs to let Kannen be an eat and run. Just because the two of you got lucky in love doesn’t mean it’s for all of us.”
“But Kannen’s a good man,” Sunny says firmly. “He’s not Likes Glue.”
“That asshole,” they all say in unison.
I laugh, then I burst into tears. I’m upset that I hurt. I’m upset that I’ve had years of taking punches to the heart. I’m upset that I never noticed Kannen looking out for me before now.
