Figuring he’d inflict more pain than I could with a remote, I sat back down. “Huh, that’s what you get.”
The two Klines that had escaped their brother’s wrath stood looking at me in shock. “Seriously, you were so cute when we met you. What happened?”
Looking around me, it started to sink in that I was in Jarrod’s home, that I’d fallen asleep with him on the couch, I’d probably drooled on his chest in my sleep, and I’d been woken up by his brothers pouring a glass of water over me. The screen on my watch said it was coming up to five o’clock in the morning and that confused me even more.
“Why are you guys here?”
Focusing in more closely, I looked at the eye colors to figure out who was who and saw it was Bond and Reid that I was talking to.
Looking quickly at each other and then back at me, Bond explained slowly, “Because our brother lives here.”
“But why are you here at five in the morning?”
“Because we’re on our way to work and wanted to piss him off,” Reid replied.
“And because I’m hangry,” Bond muttered, rubbing his stomach and looking around him. “Do you think he’s killed Canon already so I can go in the kitchen?”
Looking in the same direction, Reid mumbled, “I dunno. Remember when we took the last original glazed donuts that time. It took Mom twenty minutes to stop it.”
The mental image of the four of them fighting as kids was admittedly adorable. “Now that you’re adults it’ll be different. I used to fight with my brothers and sister when we were little all the time, but now we do it in different ways. You’re probably good to go in and get something.”
“This happened three weeks ago,” Reid told me distractedly, moving closer to the doorway to the kitchen. He only just reached it when he jumped and ran back again, hurdling the back of the couch like his brother had done, and sitting down before pulling me into his lap. “I didn’t do anything, and you can’t hit me because you’ll get Katy,” he yelled as Jarrod came back into the room.
Seeing that his brother hadn’t settled, Bond jumped over and sat beside us, lifting my legs over his. Unfortunately, he forgot about the sore ankle and just dropped that leg, meaning that my foot hit the remote I’d beaten him with. I didn’t make a noise, but I did tip my head back and practice my breathing – if it worked for pregnant women, it would work for this. Also unfortunately, Jarrod read this perfectly and realized that his brother had caused me pain, and in the next second he was pulling Bond over the back of the couch.
“Kick your legs and hurt her sore ankle again and I’ll tell Mom what you really did with Jenny Baker in your room,” he growled.
Bond’s eyes widened and he held his arms up in the air. “I give up! White flag waved, brother. Jesus!”
Before anything else could happen or be said, Canon came wandering in from the kitchen with a donut in his hand. “We ready to go or what?”
And that’s when chaos truly hit as Jarrod saw what he was doing. “That was my last donut, you little shit!”
Hearing this news, even Bond and Reid joined their brother when they jumped at Canon. It was like every woman’s biggest fantasy watching them all roll around the floor. Seeing as how I still had another hour and a half to sleep, though, I committed the five seconds of it I’d seen to memory, lay back down and closed my eyes.Three hours later…
Driving into work with the window open for Duke, I had to admit that the song from The Witcher seriously was addictive and played it on repeat singing along with it. As I pulled into my normal parking space at the side of the garage, I pulled out my phone and sent a text to Maya.
Me: Spent the night at Jarrod’s and got to watch him and his brothers rolling around the floor together.
I was just letting Duke out when my phone beeped in my hand with a response.
Maya: You lucky bitch]
Yes, yes I was. Because of this, I limped into work with a huge grin on my face, waved at everyone and then lifted my leg to make my way up the stairs before I was swept off my feet. Obviously I had to hum the song, which turned out to be a good choice because Jarrod tipped his head back and burst out laughing when he heard it.
Best morning ever!SixKatyTwo hours later…
That high flying feeling plummeted only two hours later. One second I was riding the breeze over the happy clouds, the next I was caught in a storm.
I’d just completed two invoices and was about to send an email to one of our suppliers when I heard a voice I knew well in the garage.