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Kane drawled, "Ain’t this fun? Been at this point since I called you"

Ben addressed Colt "So is Casper staying with you or so would cover it"

He sensed Colt wanted to talk, but their cousins had pushed him in the corner and he wouldn’t be the first to back out "Coive ’em more than that Obviously they’re worried"

"Coulda fooledasshole," Tell hissed

Ben glared at his cousin "Not helping And I wouldn’t talk to you either if you said shit like that tofor a solid minute

Colt dropped the defensive posture "Fine Casper is in alcohol treatment"

Stunned silence

"Are you fuckin’ serious?" Brandt said

"Yes"

"When? How?"

"He called me" Colt rubbed the back of his neck "Actually he called Indy because she’s one of the only fa her phone and talking to hio He was drunk as hell I told him no one could help hiure he would If you kne otten, frohed "So to be honest, I didn’t put much store in it Until he showed up at o"

"Where’d you take hio "Where?"

Colt remained mute

When it appeared all three of Casper’s sons intended to beat the answers out of Colt, Ben stepped in "Thisis pointless" He addressed Brandt, Tell and Dalton "Jesus, guys, stop and think Colt can’t tell you because of AA confidentiality rules"

"Without bein’ a dick, if Casper would’ve wanted you guys to knohere he was, he would’ve told you," Kane added

"Wouldn’t be the first fuckin’ time Dad’s kept us in the dark," Dalton retorted

"You just…helped him? No questions asked?" Brandt asked Colt "After all the bad shit he’s done to the family?"

Colt simply said, "Yes"

"Don’t h treatment He’ll be back home, same mean SOB as before, same drunken asshole as before," Tell said

Colt shoved Ben aside and pushed Tell with enough force he almost fell on his ass "That’s how you react after your father acknowledges he has a proble he’ll fail? Fuck you This is why he didn’t--wouldn’t--come to his sons It’s why he came to me, because I travel this path every fuckin’ day I know exactly where he is, in odda the hell outta here But you can bet your ass I won’t burden hi concern" Colt shouldered his way through Brandt and Dalton and stormed up the porch

Kane followed him

Ben really didn’t knohat to say This family shit tore him up He and his brothers never had the volatile relationship with each other and their father that Uncle Casper had with his boys, and to some extent that Uncle Carson had with his Because Ben hated conflict and tried to cut through it as quickly as possible, he’d gotten the reputation in the family as the peace He bounded down the porch, holding a burgundy book

"So who knows about Dad bein’ in rehab?" Brandt asked Colt

"My dad, Uncle Cal and Uncle Charlie Casper asked me to tell them"

"But not us," Dalton said

"It ain’t like our dads said anything to us either," Kane pointed out

"And now that I think about it, you sneaky bastards have no right to get up insecrets," Colt said "Did you really think ouldn’t find out that the three of you planned to buy Rielle’s place? Without discussing it with the rest of us?"

Brandt frowned "What the hell are you babbling about, Colt?"

It took Colt all of four seconds to see the guilt on Tell and Dalton’s faces "You didn’t include Brandt in on this scheme?"