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Storer brothers, I hurried to my room and immediately knelt on the floor to yank my suitcase out from under the bed Once it was flopped open, I yanked out the top drawer of my dresser When I turned back to the suitcase with an armful of bras and panties, I found Aspen in the doorway, looking scared

"I-I" At a loss for words, she blinked ather hands at her waist "I’m sorry, Caroline You just looked so upset I didn’t mean to automatically assume it was Ten’s fault" She shifted to the end of my bed andon here?"

I hissed out a breath, forcefully cal to help anything It wasn’t her fault ht

"I have to leave," I said "I can’t stay here a second longer with your fuck-face husband He just He" I shuddered and my bottom lip trembled I bit it hard before I could burst into tears over the way he’d betrayedher hand over her forehead "I orried he would do soly and irrational whenever he’s scared and upset"

"Scared?" I spat the word out on a laugh "What does he have to be scared about?"

She looked up atwith concern "I think he’s scared he ht lose both his best friend and his sister over this"

"Yeah, wellhe did just lose his sister"

Aspen’s eyes filled with misery "I probably don’t want to knohat he did, do I? Fine Let o"

The shift ended, the club cleared out, and only us guys reue for as long as I could, but for " lasted about ten minutes Everyone in the joint must’ve sensed our tension, because there wasn’t a lot of talking or bantering as we set to our duties I iping down the stools in front of the bar when Noel began to clean the counter behind it We were facing each other, the bar between us, and working in the sah we avoided eye contact, whenon the bar top, I looked over at hi plan had worked tonight, the person ould’ve gotten hurt the most was your sister Did that even occur to you, you prick bastard? Your only little sister Oh, but don’t worry; if that was your goal, I think it worked anyway It wasn’t h, it was you I cannot even believe you would" Shakingwith so e, I just wanted to leap over the bar and start pounding on his fucking face

What he’d done to Caroline had been coe to trustto watch us openly "I’esture with his hand, excusing aze as he sentGamble’s way, I turned and walked out of the club

When I foundagainst the footboard, I wasn’t all that surprised

S softly, I stripped down toto the end ofdown as someone sat next to my feet In my arms, Caroline stirred and her scent rustled up fro my nose until I had wood My arms were already wrapped around her as we spooned, and her ass was tucked into led to ht, it blewwith her so much that I actually wanted her this close to ht there would feel quite this nice My hips arched forward and I instinctively rubbed h my boxer shorts until I found the crease in her ass

She let out a breathy sigh, and I leaned in to bury le second of this mo out ofthe blankets up to cover my woman We were already fully covered to the tops of our chests But I knew she only had on those cute little boy shorts and a ca even her crea by ht "Jesus What the fuck, man?"