to shoo them away again. Though they didn’t leave.
Cassie pulled me into a tight hug, and I could feel the rage rolling off her in waves. “If I could kill him and get away with it I would. Besides, there are plenty of lobstermen who would put a dismembered body in their traps for any of us. No questions asked.”
Sniffling, I shook my head. “Trust me. It’s not worth you going to jail. He’s not worth it.”
Casper snorted derisively, joining our hug. “Just wait. He’ll get what’s coming to him.”
Cocooned in their embrace, I felt like I was a little kid again and nothing could hurt me. Which, after the year I’d had, was more than deserved. They didn’t seem ready to let go of the hug anytime soon, either. It only made it even more annoying.
When I’d had enough, I tried to break away from their embrace, but they just squeezed tighter.
I croaked, barely able to catch my breath. “Don’t you have a date?” I pulled Casper’s curls and laughed when she gasped, swatting me away.
Cassie sighed and pulled her twin toward the door. She turned around and shot me an evil glare. “Don’t you have a bunch of Marines to pick up at the airport?”
I knew she was right even before I checked the decorative clock on my wall. The giant Star Wars droid replica stared back down at me, a glaringly obvious reminder that I only had about an hour and a half to get there. Just barely enough time to get to Bangor and the airport in time. Normally, it wouldn’t be a problem, but I was surprising Remy with his truck. His massive, ridiculously testosterone-filled truck that I couldn’t even get into unless I was wearing leggings. I’d actually torn a pair of skinny jeans once when I tried to heave myself in. The problem with driving the monstrosity was that people had no consideration for the fact that I usually drove a Prius. My baby was about the fifth of the size of the beast I currently found myself steering.
At least the drive gave me some time to think about what I’d do with my favorite person in the whole world home for the next month. Although, admittedly, the last thing I wanted was to share my personal space, I knew it would be worth it. Having my big brother home was going to be amazing, especially after missing him when he was home the last time.
Absently I rubbed at the scars on my wrist, trying not to think about that night and everything I’d lost. Then, like the big girl I am, I picked up my feelings and shoved them down deep. I plastered a smile on my face before I screeched into the parking lot of the airport and scared the shit out of a few grandmas while I did it.
Everything was going just as planned, too. I was ready to finally see my big brother. Until I saw his best friend by his side and my entire world began to tilt on its side.
Chapter Two
Linc
“You’ve gotta be fuckin’ kidding me, man. Couldn’t it be anyone else?” Of course it had to be Remy’s sister who would be picking us up from the airport on fucking Valentine’s Day. The same sister I was obsessed with and had been for years. The sister that my best friend would murder me for even thinking of touching. And to top it off, Remy had to open his mouth about it right before my least favorite part of the flight.
I shut my eyes as the wheels of the plane hit the tarmac and shook all of us around like rag dolls.
“Hey,” my best friend and current enemy said with a smile. “It’s not my fault you and Kennedy got into it.”
My brother, the asshole on the other side of me, snorted. “They’re constantly fighting about something.”
“Shut up, Danny.” I opened one eye and shot him a glare. He didn’t know shit about me and Kennedy. Nobody did, not really.
The way Remy stared at me with wide and knowing eyes, said more than he did. Yeah, Kennedy and I had gotten into it when she had started dating one of the guys on my former football team. A guy that I knew for a fact was a prick only out to get his dick wet. He’d been two years behind us, the same as Kennedy. I knew him and exactly how his brain worked. Hell, I had