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23. Linc

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LINC

ONE YEAR AGO

Y ou’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

I watch my brother cling to P and tell her how sorry he is for last night, and I watch her eat it up as she looks over his shoulder directly at me, at least in my direction. She has dark sunglasses covering her beautiful eyes.

Still somehow, I know her eyes show the shame she has for letting me touch her, for losing control last night and getting swept away in the moment.

I couldn’t take the self-loathing and the animosity I felt toward P last night, so after she fell asleep, I was gone. I spent the night outside in a chair out on the dock, and then when I finally decided to come back to talk to her, I find her with him.

My brother.

He kisses her temple and holds her face in his hands, still not knowing I’m listening and watching them.

“I love you so damn much, Pea. I can’t live without you.”

She looks in my direction briefly before fully focusing on him, and I see her take a shaky breath. “I love you too.”

I feel bile rise in my throat, and my eyes are shooting fire in her direction as I watch his lips press against hers.

I want to strangle them both. The anger and bitterness I feel soaring through my body is no doubt unhealthy as my hands clench at my sides. He pulls away from the kiss, leaving one on her nose. “I’m going to get us some breakfast, and maybe we can take a walk, find somewhere private to eat and talk more.”

She nods, and he quickly goes inside.

She turns away from me, looking out over the railing of the deck toward the lake, but there’s no way in hell she’s getting away from me that easily. I go around and climb the stairs to the deck, moving to her side.

“So that’s it? He says he’s sorry, and you two are just fine?”

She doesn’t turn away from the lake to look at me, and I hear a heavy sigh. “Linc, what was I supposed to do?”

“Maybe try the truth, Penelope?”

She still won’t look at me. “Last night was a stupid mistake.” I fight the anger swelling inside my chest. Fuck her and her mistake. Now she turns to look at me, but I’m still staring straight ahead at the lake, afraid to face her while I’m this fucking furious at her. “I love Colt. I’m his girlfriend.”

Oh, fuck this . I turn to look at her, only seeing red. “I know that, Penelope.” Her name is a sinister growl coming from my lips as our eyes lock, and I hate that she’s wearing those fucking sunglasses. I can’t see her eyes because she wants to hide from everything. I grab the glasses and toss them behind her, looking straight into those deceptive pools of sadness. “You’re my brother’s girlfriend who I fucked last night.”

Her eyes widen in horror as they slide toward the door and then back to me. “Shhh.”

I scoff at that, hating her, feeling nothing but anger. “What are you going to do, P? Let him walk around thinking your virginity is still intact? That you’re saving it for him,” I lean in closer to her, my voice harsh, “when you handed it to me? In fact, you all but begged me to take it.”

“Stop, Linc.”

Her voice is strained and full of pain and regret, but I’m lost in my rage. “What the hell are you going to do when he finally gives in and wants to fuck you and finds out you didn’t wait?”

“It’s not like he’ll be doing a hymen check. I don’t think he’ll know.”

“I felt it.” I watch her gulp. My hand slides over her arm, and I watch goosebumps slide over her skin. “When I slid inside of you and pushed through the last bit of innocence you had, I felt you give yourself to me, P. Not him.”

“Stop.” She steps back, and I see the contempt she feels for me. “You need to leave me alone. It won’t do any good telling him what we did. I’ll figure it out myself.”

“Any good for you?”

“For any of us. You think we can come back from that, Linc? We can’t. No one can. Your whole family will be torn apart, for what? So we can feel slightly better? I can’t and won’t do that. It’s a secret I’m willing to keep even if it kills me.”

“So, you’re just going to pretend like last night didn’t happen?”

She leans down, picking up her sunglasses and sliding them back over her eyes before turning back to me, her chin lifted up. “I wish it hadn’t.”

She turns and goes inside, her cloak back in place, going back to being his Pea.

Me too, but it fucking did, and now all I want is for her to hurt like I do.

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