I screamed and I screamed and I screamed, and all of a sudden, my baby boy, my perfect baby boy, was lying on my chest wailing.
It was the best and worst moment of my life.
COPPER
I was pissed.
Pissed, and hurt, and honestly, betrayed.
But not because I’d just walked in on my brother sleeping with the girl who was once my best friend, Reign.
But because my brother didn’t heed my warnings.
He’d picked up where I’d left off.
I’d come to the hospital with Keely to pop in for lunch with my brother, Chevy, thinking that I’d get some sibling time in—something that I fucking loved after not having it for the last fifteen years.
But then I’d jumped onto the bed that I’d assumed Chevy was sleeping alone in, only to find Reign there with him.
What would it fucking take to get him to see that she was a fucking nut case?
Honestly, it was likely my fault.
None of my siblings had known exactly how bad Reign was.
But I knew.
I’d spent the last fifteen years reading her letters and watched the degradation over the years.
When we’d been teens, she’d been eccentric.
Her mom had turned her into this hypochondriac that worried about anything and everything.
Over time, and after a lot of research—because I had a lot of free time on my hands and nothing to do with that free time—I’d decided that she had Munchausen’s.
Eventually, I’d had Apollo—our resident computer genius—look into her and found out that in her confidential medical files, my findings were the same as professionals.
I’d intended to keep an eye on her during my time in prison through Apollo, but shit had gone down with Apollo’s son, and Apollo had a lot on his mind to the point where I didn’t want to add to his load.
Though, if I had kept an eye on her, I would’ve noticed her sinking her needy claws into Chevy.
The moment I got out and Keely let me know that Reign was living in the same building that I was now in, I’d thought that she’d been entirely focused on me.
I hadn’t realized that she was playing us both.
I had to figure out a way to scrape her off of Chevy.
If I didn’t, he’d never be happy.
Reign was like a fuckin’ leech, latching onto anyone that would give her the attention that she sought.
I scrubbed my hand over my face and kept walking, unsure of where the hell I was going.
I slowed to a stop, then turned the corner just to find a very angry woman and an uncaring man standing in the middle of the hallway.
The woman looked like she was blocking the door to her room, stopping the man from entering.
“It’s my kid,” the man said.
