Page 16 of Her Brother's Keeper

“Sure, no problem, Sage has always been a pleasure.”

“Like I said, if he’s anything less than, please just call me and I’ll come get him.”

“Alright, I promise,” she hugged me tight and said to Nox and Rush, “It was nice to meet you both. Thank you for what you’ve done for this family and God bless you.”

“Thank you, Ma’am,” Rush said plastering on what I could tell was a fake as hell smile. I waved as she pulled out of the driveway with my brother and when I shut the door on the cold and the wind, I sagged with relief.

“Go get ready for work,” Nox ordered gently. “We’ll finish up in here, okay?”

I nodded, “Thanks.” I didn’t look back as I escaped up into my room. I supposed now I should start sleeping in here again as opposed to the couch. I scrubbed my face with my hands and with a sigh, pushed all of those thoughts aside and got ready for work. I needed to hurry now, or I was going to be late.

Chapter 7

Nox

“You really going to let her drive to work like that?” Rush asked.

“Nope.”

“Didn’t think so.”

“Give us a ride over there, let’s drop her off, and I’ll pick her up in my cage later,” I said and sighed, staring up at where she’d gone.

“Dude, this family is a mess. You sure about this?” my brother asked and I looked at him.

“Strangely, yes. Probably more sure about this than I’ve ever been before in my life. Don’t ask me why, either.” I said, cutting him off with the last. He closed his mouth and put up his hands.

“You sure it doesn’t have anything to do with Archer and his new family?” he asked and I lifted one shoulder in a shrug.

“I couldn’t tell you, Rush. All I can tell you is what I’vebeentelling you. Something tells me I need to be here for these two.”

“Never figured you for a Captain Save-a-…” He frowned and shut his mouth.

“Yeah, now you’re starting to see it, huh?” I asked, grinning.

“Shut up,” he said with a scowl.

He couldn’t call her a ‘ho’ because she was both too young and too innocent, but that had been what he was going to say to me, that he couldn’t see me being a Captain Save-a-ho. I wasn’t, really. I mean, out of all four of us, me, Rush, Grind, and Arch; I’d never been afraid of tapping some spare pussy when it was around. Hell, I still hit Cherry back at the club on occasion, but surprisingly, not since I’d met Maren. Granted it’d only been a couple of weeks, but she made me want to clean up my act some, even though I had no intention of going there with a seventeen-year-old girl.

She came down the stairs dressed in the good ole Wally-world standard uniform, face free of makeup, hair in a high ponytail, and even as somber as she was, she was beautiful.

“C’mon, Angel, we’re gonna drive you to work. You’re not fit to be behind the wheel like this.”

She looked at me and a slight frown slipped across her features, “I’m okay, really. You’ve already gone way out of your way today – I couldn’t possibly ask you to do anything else.”

“You ain’t askin’ and we ain’t taking no for an answer,” Rush told her flatly and her eyes grew wide.

“Jesus Christ, Rush!” I hung my head and pulled on the back of my neck with one hand.

“What?”

“Could you have channeled Archer any harder right then?”

Rush rolled his eyes and I caught a small smile on Maren’s lips.

“We’ll drive you to work,” I repeated gently. “And I promise I’ll be there when you get off to drive you home.”

She thought about it, chewing the inside of her cheek in that adorable way of hers before finally nodding.

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