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A hundred questions flooded my head, all of them demanding answers, but I couldn’t voice them because Chance stumbled toward her.
“Peaches, please.”He rushed forward, but she backed away from him, her glare never once softening.“Evie,fuck, please!”
“Goodbye, Chance.”Without sparing him another glance, she went into the bedroom and shut the door.
Chance rubbed his hand across his chest.“No.No, she didn’t say that.It’s not goodbye.I just found her.I’m not losing her.”
He started to follow her, but Everly made a noise that had me on my feet, blocking him.“I don’t know what went down today, but give her a minute.She’s upset over what Rory said to her.”
“They didn’t even talk!”Chance argued, trying to get around me.He shoved me.“Reid, man, get out of my way.I need to fix this.”
“I can’t let you in there, cuz.She wants a moment.”He snarled something to himself and charged at me.Catching him around the middle, I tackled him to the floor.
“Let me up, motherfucker!”he roared in my face.
“She’s not going to listen to anything you have to say right now,” Everly reasoned.Her stark-white face was full of her own pain.“Evie’s hurting.Today was a lot for her.Give her a little time to digest everything that happened.”
“Evie, it’s me.”Knocking on the door, Everly waited for the quiet answer before opening it and stepping inside.I held off until I heard the click of the lock engaging before I released Chance.
Getting to my feet, I offered him my hand, but he slapped it away.“She has to listen to me,” he rasped, stabbing his fingers through his hair.“And what the fuck did she mean about the whole…”
He didn’t need to finish the question for me to understand he was talking about the bomb she’d dropped about almost ending her life.“Dude, you know her better than me.Ev hasn’t given me many details about her sister, or her life in general, other than that they were separated for most of their childhood.This is all as new to me as it is to you.We haven’t had much time together to get to know each other yet.”
Groaning, he scrubbed his hands down his face.“Mom went to WomanLand today.I guess she thought Everly was Evie.Things got heated.Your girl attacked my mom.”
That had me fighting a grin.My sweetness was a little bit spicy too.Fuck, I loved that.“Unprovoked?”
“According to Mom, it was unprovoked.From what Sammy, Jos, and Mila all said, Everly showed restraint.”
“Damn.”I was pissed I hadn’t been there to see it.
Chance parked his ass on the couch.“Ma keeps saying she’s going to file assault charges.She showed me the bald spot on the back of her head that Everly caused.”
“What are you going to do about that?”I walked into the kitchen to finish putting the sandwiches together.I hadn’t eaten all day, and both girls needed something in their stomachs.The thought of Everly being hungry and going without caused that freshly released monster inside me to rattle around.
“I’ve already told her to chill out.She’s got all the women in a tizzy.Mila told her she’s not allowed back in the boutique until she apologizes to Everly.On top of that, Mom and Jos are arguing, but that’s nothing new.They never could get along.”
I grunted in agreement.Our moms were always civil to each other, but that was about it.From what little I knew about it, Rory had been grumpy ever since my mom had shown up with me back in the day.Like everyone else, Rory had thought that I was Matt’s son, not Tanner’s.No one talked much about that era in our lives, though.Too many bad memories.
“Only this time, my dad doesn’t have Mom’s back.He’s just as pissed at her over what she was saying and the way she acted as everyone else.”
“That tells you right there that she’s in the wrong on this, Chance.Matt worships Rory, but if she fucks up, he tells it to her straight.”I stacked the sandwiches high before cutting them into triangles.
Was I trying to impress Everly with a sandwich?Without a doubt.
“Everly shouldn’t have put hands on my mom, Reid.”
I shrugged.“Sammy saying she used restraint is one thing.Her moral compass is broken.Mila is a completely other thing.If that girl says Everly felt like she was in a position where she needed to protect herself in any shape or form, I’m not going to question that.”
“Yeah,” Chance muttered.
“Regardless of whether she should or shouldn’t have, I stand with Ev.”
“Blind loyalty?”
“There’s nothing blind about it.If you understood that, your woman wouldn’t be in the other room crying right now.”
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