Page 4 of Good Time Boyfriend
“I am. Is there something I can do for you guys?”
“Yeah,” one of the men said. All three women and two men were glaring at me, arms folded over their chest. Hell, this wasn’t going to go well. “You can tell us why you dumped our baby sister,” the man continued.
The bar got quiet, and I just stood there wondering who the hell these people were.
They had called me by name, so they weren’t confusing me with my twin, unless August had used my name in a relationship? No, we had never done that, had always found it skeevy. What was going on?
“You broke our baby sister’s heart. After a year of being together. You just dump her and walk away and say no hard feelings? And you wouldn’t even meet us throughout your whole relationship. What are you hiding?” one of the women asked.
Before I could say anything, and before Ace could rush over and help out, another woman ran in, eyes wide, hair fluttering behind her.
I blinked because I knew this face.I knew her.
Long, wavy blond hair, high cheekbones, plump lips, and a body a man would die for. This was the woman that my heart went pitter-patter for.And I didn’t even know her fucking name.
It was as if Ace had conjured her.
She ran in, arms outstretched, and stood between me and the five people who were staring me down.
“I’m so sorry. This is all a mistake,” she pleaded to me before she whirled on them. “Why the hell are you guys here?”
These were her siblings? I didn’t even know her name and, apparently, I had dumped her.
“He hurt you. Did you think we were just going to walk away? You’re our baby sister.”
She looked nothing like the others, but then again, most siblings didn’t look like replicas like mine.
“And that gives you the right to come into his place of business and badger him? You’re embarrassing me.”
She hadn’t denied it though. Hadn’t denied we had been in a relationship that I didn’t remember.
“Um, excuse me?” I began, but one of the siblings just waved me off.
Well, that was going to get annoying soon.
“He hurt you. Of course, we’re going to protect you, Devney.”
Devney. Her name was Devney.
She looked over her shoulder at me, and the pain in her eyes hit me like a punch to the chest. Well hell. I now knew her name, and I knew she had to be in some predicament that she was going to explain to me later. But for now, I could at least help her get rid of that pain in her eyes.
I leaned forward and sighed. “I’m so sorry, Devney. So damn sorry.”
She blinked at me, confusion in her gaze, then all hell broke loose behind her.
ChapterTwo
Devney
This couldn’t be happening. It had to be a dream. No, a nightmare. Because the man that I had made up, based on a real encounter with a real person, was now standing on the other side of the bar, looking at my five stepsiblings as if they had lost their damn minds. And in reality, they had.
I could not believe the five of them had decided to show up unannounced and stand up for me—all for a lie.
Guilt warred with mortification, and I wasn’t sure what was going to win.
I didn’t have time to think much about it, because now we were not only making a scene, but it was going to get worse.
Especially with the way that my eldest stepbrother was glaring.
