Page 103 of A Little Bit Reckless
They were obviously all here now, and, straightening my tie, I tried not to buckle at the looks I knew I was about to get.
Dorian and Sloane planned to have a larger affair when they got home. That affair included all our parents of course, and, though the couple hadn’t gone out of their way tonothave them attend, they also didn’t want our families to talk them out of things. This wedding was spur of the moment. It was about Dorian and Sloane, and, of course, the guys and I aided them in their pursuit of that. We all knew the risks. Especially me. Had I wanted to test my father so soon after hedidn’tcut me off? No, but it was a risk I was willing to take. Fuck, I was willing to possibly lose out on a full ride to culinary school, and everyone knew what that shit meant to me.
Dorian was my brother though, and I’d do anything for him. So, with those thoughts in my mind, I made sure there was confidence in my strides as I continued to make my way down the aisle. I saw LJ and his wife, Billie, first. LJ definitely had a look of judgement in his eyes, but Billie was smiling. I honestly couldn’t believe they were able to come. They’d been on their way out of the country after all the graduation stuff.
Swallowing, I caught the eyes of Thatcher and Bow’s parents next. Right away, Mr. Reed gave mea look,but I had a feeling that was equally for flying his baby girl out of town as it was for keeping this wedding a secret.
Mr. Reed crossed his arms in my direction, but Mrs. Reed didn’t look too pissed. If anything, there was a peaceful look on her face as she studied me, and was that a gentle nod?
I had to be imagining that, but I got a similar nod from all the mothers in attendance as I passed them, including Dorian’s mom, Mrs. Prinze, and that was crazy. I even got an eye crinkle from her. Sloane’s mom too: Mrs. Mallick’s eyes were definitely warm as I passed her, but what was crazy was my mom. My momgrinned. She even put her hands up to cover her mouth.
Something inside me bounced a little that I might have gotten away with this secret shit, but then I caught my dad. He brought his fingers to his eyes, then pointed them both at me. Like he was watching me, but then he smirked and took my mom’s hand. For some reason, my parents didn’t look totally pissed.
“Apparently, your mom got him to come around,” Bru whispered to me when I finally got to the front. The guys were all up there with a well-dressed officiant. I mean, the guy had nothing on all us dressed in Armani, but whatevs. Bru eyed me. “And I totally want to fuck you right now, by the way.”
That fucking heat returned to my cock, something I passed a discreet hand over before leaning toward him. I grinned. “I just may let you later if you’re a good boy.”
I felt Bru shiver. His big body eased out a breath before he straightened and passed the moment off.
I didn’t usually let him fuck me. I liked control and domination, but I found myself submitting to Bru more and more. I was gone when it came to him.
But I wasdonewhen it came to her.
Bru and I both were, and I felt his breath leave again when a tiny woman made her way down the aisle in a soft pink color. My breath left too.
Bow still had a bandage on her head from the accident, but that didn’t matter. She was still the most beautiful thing in this room right now.
The smooth material Bow wore was modest, as it came down to her ankles, but the dress had a slit that went up to her mid-thigh. This exposed her fair skin every step she took. Like a peek at the treasure that led up between her thighs, and my cock could fucking split wood thinking about the heat there, her smell there. I squeezed Bru’s other side, and I felt a rumble in his back against my chest. Bowwouldbe in an ankle-length dress and turn us on.
She was heaven.
The need to protect this girl, her innocence, overtook us both. I didn’t regret previous actions when it came to her, and I know Bru didn’t.
None of my brothers did either.
We all did something not long ago to someone who hurt one of our own without shame or hesitation.
“I want you to hunt him down.”
We all did what Bow asked us to that night.Iavenged her, and I had Bru by my side.
I’d done some dark things with my friends before. We’d all gotten our hands dirty in the past making people pay, but taking a life was a new level, for me in particular. I had blood on my hands, but I’d never played jury and executioner.
Patrick Donovan had begged in the end. He’dbegged for his life,and even brought our parents into it. He said we’d never get away with what we were about to do and threatened there’d be consequences from our parents if they found out.
I’d smirked at that because I knew our parents. I knewmy father. I knew for a fact what my dad and his friends would have done had they actually found the man who almost killed Bow and Sloane.
They would have made him suffer. They would have ended him.
Just like my friends and I did.
We were the men raised by our fathers, and we were proud to be their sons. We also didn’t want to burden our dads with this, and didn’t need to. We took care of it.
We took care of Bow.
It wasn’t hard to make things look like an accident, since people got lost in those woods all the time. I was sure they’d eventually find Donovan’s body at the bottom of a ravine in Grimwood Hollow, and his death would look like an accident. Like a man who went on a walk behind his property and got lost. Even his maid didn’t know he went out that night.
As it turned out, he abused her too, often, and she had no problem telling anyone that she had no idea her boss left on a walk that night. She also had no problem backing up the story that her boss had no visitors that evening.
