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“You’re turning seventeen and that was a club party. With members and their women. Key word there being ‘women’. As if Dad is going to let you have girls there that are underage around his men.”

“Why should it be my problem if his men won’t keep their hands off girls that have no interest in them?” She crossed her arms still with a pout on her face. Well, she could pout at me all she wanted, I was only stating facts. Dad wasn’t going to let her have the party of her dreams.

“Because those girls will have an interest in them. I’ve seen your friends. They’re basically drooling at the chance to get with one of them.” I accidentally dropped the spanner I had in my hands and picked it up in time to see her expression.

She narrowed her eyes and actually looked slightly pissed off with me. “No, they’re normally drooling after you and hoping you’ll give them a chance.”

I shrugged my shoulders. “If they’ll do it to me, they’ll do it to them.”

She groaned. “Well, if I can’t have your support for the party, can I have money for the car? You’re earning now and it’s not like you’re spending it on alcohol or weed, cause you get both of them for free.”

“Not giving you money, Naughty.”

“You are a useless older brother! You know that! What can I use you for?” Eve threw her hands in the air, frustration in her voice.

“I was useful the other day at school.” I was talking about when Eve decided she would get into a fight. Why she chose to take on a boy, I didn’t know.

“He touched me.”

“You should have come to me.”

“I don’t need you fighting my battles and I didn’t need you to step in.”

“Naughty, my right hook is meaner than yours.” I think that boy regretted even looking at Eve when I was through with him. “Now, shouldn’t you be getting ready for school?” I took in the fact she was still in her pajamas.

She and Hannah were the only girls I knew that walked around the clubhouse in pajamas. All the other girls cared too much what men thought of them. Eve and Hannah couldn’t care less, though. And if a man so much as looked at them for longer than a second, Dad’s fist would be reshaping their face.

“I’m not going to school.”

“Naughty, you really want to get Dad worked up this early in the morning?” This was Eve for you; she lived to test Dad’s limits. Dad forced us to go to school. I didn’t see why I had to. I was already a member and I would be working my way up the food chain.

I wouldn’t be going to university, which is what he had planned for Eve and Hannah.

So I just scraped by at school. Did enough to keep the teachers off my back so they wouldn’t call Dad into the school.

“I’ve already sweet-talked mum. Told her I had a heavy period.”

“EW YUCK!”

“Calm down. I don’t really.”

“Why would you even tell me that?!” Disgusted. That’s how I felt. Eve had given me way too much information. Who the hell says that to their brother? I shook my head at her, disgusted.

She grinned at me evilly, like she had done it on bloody purpose. “I don’t lie to you,” she said innocently.

I scoffed. “Sure, you don’t.”

I walked off, leaving my troublemaking sister in the garage along with my bike, which I hadn’t finished fixing in time, thanks to her. Looked like I was taking my car to school.

Eve skipped to my side. “So, about the money?” She still wasn’t giving up on it.

“You aren’t getting a cent from me.”

“Why do you have to sound like Dad?”

I pulled open the clubhouse door. She was giving me a headache. Now I knew how Dad felt dealing with her. How did he put up with it?

I spotted Dad at one of the tables, and Hannah was sitting to his right, chewing on toast. She was wearing her flannel pajamas even though it was the middle of summer. She always went on about being cold.

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