Pine River by Tijan

Author:Tijan
Language: eng
Format: epub

44

RAMSAY

“You’re a dick.”

I was in the kitchen, making spaghetti because, for once, my mom wasn’t working, and I was happy. And I was leaning into that happiness because everything else, I’d deal with later. Mom and daughter night tonight, hell yes.

Clint had declared that, coming in from the back door. Trenton and Alex followed. All had scowls, but when my mom came out from the bathroom, the scowls disappeared.

“Hey, you guys. Are you coming over for dinner?” She greeted each with a kiss to their cheeks, one by one. They rotated around for her.

“Uh . . .” Clint gave me a meaningful look. “We are now.”

I didn’t respond, but reached out and grabbed another huge handful of noodles for the pot. We’d also need a second sauce jar. “I’ll grab the sauce.”

“No, no.” My mom came over, patting me on the arm. “I’ll grab it.”

I noticed how she grabbed her phone on the way. She was probably calling my aunt to see what was up. The guys had come in with attitude.

Alex watched her go down the hallway. “She’s in her room,” he announced after a moment.

“She’s calling Mom,” Trenton added.

“Who cares.” Clint hadn’t stopped scowling at me. “Thanks to Kira, we know what’s going on with our own cousin. What the fuck, Rams?”

“You’re mad at me about the article he wrote?”

“We’re mad we didn’t hear it from you. Why didn’t you tell us?”

I was aware of a peculiar look Alex was giving me, but one thing at a time here. Ducking my head, stirring the still-hard noodles, I shrugged. “It’s—wait a minute.” I remembered why I hadn’t told them and whirled around, the spoon in hand. “A lot happened today.” I shot Alex a peculiar look right back because Scout informed me of their come-to-Jesus moment. “I fully intended to air everything out with you, but then I came home and forgot my mom had tonight off. It’s a mom/daughter night.”

“Yeah. Well.” Alex leaned forward, grabbing my spoon and nudging me out of the way. “We’re not leaving.”

I measured him with a look. “Do we need to talk?”

He growled but ignored me, still holding my spoon. “No. Scout and I had it out. I do not like it—”

“None of us fucking like it,” Clint corrected.

Alex kept going as if his brother hadn’t spoken, “But also aware you do your own shit. Trust and believe, though, that I made him promise that the second any emotions start acting up, he cuts it off.” His face got all serious. “I mean that, Rams. We’ve each picked you up, and I will not let my best friend be another reason we’re picking you up from the floor.”

My throat swelled up, but I blinked, pushing past that and jerked my head up and down. “Got it.”

“No emotions. And that’s such a weird thing I’ve even—let’s never talk about this again? How about that?”

I started to smile, then thought better about it. That might be pushing it. “Okay. No emotions. No more talking about me and him.

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