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“Hi, I’m Savannah.” She gives a little wave. “I’m sorry about Matthew.”

“It’s okay. I understand what he thinks. I know how close he and Sienna were. I know his pain is still there. Mine is too.”

She continues to stare at me. “I’m sorry, but the resemblance between you and Sienna is uncanny.”

I laugh. “It wouldn’t be the first time someone has said that. I guess when you’re both half Hispanic, with brown hair it happens. Her only saving grace was her eye color. She was blessed with Devin’s blue, just like Sin.”

“Do you want to go meet the kids?” she asks Sam. He nods then leans into her.

“He’ll be fine, Tessa. Jenni is outside, and she’ll make sure he’s having a good time.”

“I’m going to get you some water,” Hawk tells me before he heads out the back door, but when it takes him longer than a couple of minutes, I know he’s doing more than finding me something to drink.

Hawk

I leave Tessa with Bianca before she has a chance to object. Sin is acting like a child throwing a tantrum. The screen door squeaks as I push it open and head outside. The wooden steps creek under the weight of my boots as I make my way towards him.

“What’s your issue, man?” I ask as soon as my feet hit the concrete of the back patio. Sin is standing next to Lick who’s watching his niece and nephew in the yard on the swings. Savannah has Grace in her arms and Sam at her side while she introduces him to the kids.

“Don’t know what you’re talking about.”

He doesn’t look at me, and it only pisses me off. “Jesus, Sin. You’re acting like a child.”

He turns to face me. “I’m acting like a child? Why the fuck didn’t you tell me that you got in contact with Tessa, Hawk? All these months you were supposed to be working shit out with your mom, but instead, you’ve been in LA playing fucking house with a woman who left us at the point in time when we needed her most!”

“Come on, kids. Let’s go out front and let the grown-up man-boys yell it out.” Jenni ushers the kids towards the side gate to the front of the house.

Sin takes a step closer. “And she comes back with a kid. Have you even asked her who he belongs to? Come on, man. Pull your head out of your ass. Remember your loyalty.”

I have no idea where this is coming from, but I don’t take the time to think. Before I know it, I’m throwing a fist and connecting with my best friend’s jaw, catching him completely off guard.

“Holy shit!” Lick howls in laughter next to me. “That was fucking epic, kid. I didn’t know you had the fucking balls to ever do that.”

“Fuck you, Lick,” I tell him as I watch Sin spit a mouthful of blood on the concrete.

“You better tread lightly, Hawk.” Sin wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. “I don’t know who you think you are.”

“Me? Who the fuck do you think you are? Just when I think you’re finally getting your shit together, you start this poor me act. Get over the past, Sin. Move the fuck on. You’ve got more than most people have and you still live in the fucking past.”

“Enough!” Bianca's voice roars over us.

I look around the backyard and see that everyone’s watching us.

“Mama, go back inside.”

“Don’t you dare tell me what to do, Matthew. There is no fighting, not between you two. You’re brothers.”

“Family doesn’t keep things from each other,” Sin spit back.

“I’m sure Hawking has a good reason for not telling you about Tessa and Samuel.”

His eyes narrow in on his mother. “But of course, you knew didn’t you?”

“Si. Tessa called me when she found Rose. I’m the one who told Hawking about both of them.”

“But you didn’t think to let me know?”

“Why did you need to know?” Cut says as he approaches the group from the front of the house.