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“No,” she said getting on her toes and right up in his personal space “You need to watch yourself You also need to remember why Shell and I came in here to talk to you in the first place”
Right Spewing so meth Like he could believe a word out of Shell’s ave her every reason to get rid of Rusty
“Stop it” Izzy pointed a finger in his face
He counted to ten Don’t snap her finger off
“Whatever fucked up shit is going through your head, stop it And remember who your woman is Remember who she is She is the woman who has been head over heels for you her entire life She is the woman ould lay down her life for you in a heartbeat”
“She’s the woman who fucked my brother and had his kid Then kept it a secret for years”
“Fuck you,” Izzy spat
Copper swore to God she was testing his patience like no other How did Jig deal with this woman day in and day out?
“You don’t deserve her I do not know all the details, but I knohat happened between her and Rusty was not what you’re thinking” She lowered her voice “And I’m pretty sure it wasn’t entirely consensual”
He reared back as Izzy’s words hit him like a slap “What?”
“You heardon your self-pity, think about two things Remember who your woman is And remember who your brother is”
“The fuck is that supposed to mean?”
“It means your woman is one of the best I’ve everAnd your brother is a piece of shit who’d steal fros behind your back, sucker punch his brothers, and spend years in jail for nearly beating a man to death Sounds just like the kind of man who’d force a woman” With that, she stormed out of his office
Copper dropped into his chair, a h his head He rubbed at the left side of his chest where another, more intense ache formed
With a sigh, he pulled the bottle of whiskey out of his drawer and sucked back a long drink Then he gripped the half-full bottle by the neck and flung it across the room with a roar of “Goddammit”
The bottle exploded in a sharp spray of glass and whiskey
Very fitting considering his heart had just suffered the same fate
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
FIVE DAYS AFTER finding out he was in love with the mother of his niece, Copper sat outside behind the clubhouse polishing off yet another bottle of whiskey He’d had more to drink in the past five days than the past five years