“I got enough shit to deal with, I don’t need you two tearing each other apart. This is a party, stop fuckin’ it up for the rest of us that want a damn night to just relax.”
With that, he walked off.
B-ry released Ky. Then Cable dropped his arms from around me but didn’t take a step back right away.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Ingram start to make her way over to me.
“Ingram,” Ky said and there was still a pissed-off fire in his tone. “Get away right now. I love you, but I need to have a chat with Mouse right the fuck now.”
She gasped, then slowly turned and walked away.
I wanted to go after her but as I looked at Ky, I knew that wasn’t a smart idea.
The flames rose in his eyes and his nose flared with anger.
“You good?” Cable asked me as he rested his big hand on my shoulder.
“Yeah,” I told him. “I’m done.” I wiped the blood from my lip with the back of my hand.
“Ky?” B-ry asked.
Ky’s head nodded once in response.
“Sit,” Ky said to me once we were sort of alone.
I sat, not taking my eyes off of him.
I didn’t really think he’d do anything more, but I wasn’t sure.
Not that I really could have blamed him.
Lake came over hesitantly, bringing a small cooler that I had a good idea was full of beer. He placed it between us, looking back and forth between us a few times.
I gave him a chin jerk letting him know it was all good.
Then Ky and I were left in silence.
I should have been the first to speak but I didn’t really know where to start.
Was I in the wrong? Yeah, one hundred fucking percent. I just wanted to know what the hell I could do to fix all that now.
“I’m pissed, Mouse,” he finally said.
“I get that.” I wasn’t trying to be an asshole.
“I’m pretty mad that you got a thing for my sister. But I’m more fuckin’ pissed that you didn’t come to me first. I might not like it and…” He blew out a hard breath as his head tilted back for a second. “I get that she’s not the little girl that I see her as. She’s my little sister, and I think she’ll always be that. But, thanks mostly to Chris, I see that she’s not a girl anymore.”
I said nothing because I didn’t have much to say on all of that. It was obvious that he saw her that way and though I didn’t have any siblings, I understood it. It was the way any good big brother would see things.
“When the hell did this start?” he asked and his voice had a hard edge, just like his eyes.
“No,” I said, my head shaking back and forth like I was trying to make a point clear. “Not back then. Back then… shit, I don’t know. I cared for her but I didn’t feel… didn’t feel like I do now.”
“You didn’t fucking touch her back then?”
“Fuck no,” I spat out.
“So tell me, brother, when the fuck did this all start then?”
