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“What the fuck?—”
I push him back a little.“If these two stay here, you’ll get punched.Is that what you want?Or do you want to sit and talk about where we’re at and see if we can salvage any part of our friendship?”
His green eyes search mine.I’m open, but I’ve struggled with all this for years.They just found out recently.
“Fine.”He steps off to the side.
I turn back to Finn and Dante and hold up my hands.“I know you want your piece of him, but let me talk to him about all this.You two need to go cool down.I understand how angry you are?—”
“Why aren’t you just as angry?”Finn glares at Tom.“What he did to you was fucked-up.What he did to us.”
I shrug.“It’s no longer a secret.He can’t hold it over my head.”
It was Tom and my secret, but he weaponized it.So I disarmed part of it.Sara is mine.As long as I have her and the guys, I’m good.
“Go check on Sara.Make sure she’s not spiraling more than she should.She’s angry too, but Tom finding out that way has to be hard.”
Dante puts his hand on my shoulder.“He doesn’t deserve you.”
“He’s my best friend and I have to believe there’s something here to salvage.”Or why would I have fought so hard to keep him all these years?
“If you need us, we’ll be close.”Finn follows Dante across the yard.
I watch them go and wonder if I’m trying to recover something that might have only been in my head.But then I turn and see the concern in Tom’s eyes before he hides it again.Maybe we don’t have much to save, but we’ll need to find a way to go forward.
When I sit across from Tom, I meet his green eyes, so like Sara’s.“I told them everything.I’m in love with Sara.And like Dante said, if you make us choose, it won’t be you, man.So let’s find out if we can make this work going forward.”
Chapter31
Trust
Wyatt
Tom clasps his hands between his knees as he watches the others head to the house.Dante and Finn will go to Sara.Maybe they’ll fuck the aggression out of their systems.I wouldn’t mind watching that, but I have other things to take care of.
“Explain to me what happened.”Tom’s still angry.It’s in the tone of his voice and the way he holds himself.
For years, we’ve had each other’s backs.If I had a beef with someone, Tom was at my side ready to fight with me.If he needed to scare someone off Sara, I was right there, helping him.I was the unloved kid of a rich family and he was the golden god that could do no wrong.
Maybe more god of mischief than golden god, but everyone wanted to be in his circle and know him.He’s open and friendly, but he chose us to be his friends.Our misfit group.
He gave us Sara.
When we were young, she was ours to help protect.To keep out of trouble.She’d been our younger sister too.Our relationship changed gradually.And now, she’s ours in every way.
The love she gives is unconditional, unlike Tom’s.
I breathe out and give him our story.How she didn’t want to come to the apartment because of me.How she was dating Drew and working her internship.How someone broke into the townhouse when she was gone.How she moved in with us.
“Things changed.”I’m reluctant to share everything with him.We all agreed to a limited-time arrangement.We took her virginity and made her ours in every way possible, but he doesn’t need to know about that.
“Things changed?”Tom stands and paces.He gestures toward the house.“Finn and Dante were kissing my sister while she practically gave them a lap dance.Things changed!”
He runs a hand through his hair, but I just sit back and watch him.
This is the angry older brother.The one I’d climb into a car with to drive to whatever fuckhead Sara thought she wanted to date and scare him until he decided she wasn’t worth it.
“You won’t scare us away, Tom.”I have to be clear about this.“She’s ours and we won’t give her up.”
