We jumped aside and sprang up as his head lifted, his eyes widening as he took within the scene earlier than him. I shortly smoothed my hair down as I glanced across the room. In his want to wash, Hawk had taken out all of the meals containers, hung our moist garments within the bathe, and tidied up the opposite issues I’d introduced into the room someday between spherical three or 4 of sexcapades. So the room didn’t look as dangerous as it will have.

Bryce’s eyes widened on the two of us in mattress collectively, however then he dropped his shoulders and smiled as his complete physique relaxed. It appeared his aid at discovering me outweighed the logic of why we’d be half-dressed side-by-side collectively.

“BB! There you’re. I’ve been making an attempt to name you all night time…” he trailed off, glancing round as his mind caught up and put the items collectively for him. It needed to be that he’d been up many of the night time coping with my wedding ceremony sham that he hadn’t gotten there sooner.

“Wait…” Bryce narrowed his eyes as he stared at his greatest pal.

“I can clarify,” Hawk mentioned, sounding responsible as hell. However he froze, half prolonged out of the mattress as the remainder of his phrases died on his tongue.

My ideas tumbled round as I attempted to think about a option to clarify this. My eyes caught on the cake topper in the course of the desk, my gown positioned delicately over the chair subsequent to it. Exterior of us in mattress collectively, which we had been each at the very least dressed this time—thanks, Hawk—I didn’t see something that might infer we’d been fucking each other’s brains out.

Time to attempt to mislead my brother.

“Somebody begin speaking,” Bryce demanded, crossing his arms over his chest. I had little question if it had been anybody aside from Hawk in mattress with me, he would’ve already swung first and requested questions later. His greatest pal made him pause earlier than leaping to conclusions. However simply barely, if the anger radiating off him was something to go by.

“You see, I used to be upset, and we ate cake after which nightmares,” I rambled, none of it making sense. I had by no means been liar, particularly to Bryce.

“Cake?” Bryce requested, blinking as he checked out me, my nonsense making the anger dissipate barely.

“Yup. The marriage cake.” I pointed to the desk the place the topper was.

Then I noticed it.

I’d simply pointed my brother proper to the one piece of incriminating proof.

The sting of a gold and black wrapper peeked out from underneath my gown, the place it had fallen in haste as Hawk fucked me towards that desk. I swallowed, praying Bryce wouldn’t see it. However now that I had, I couldn’t give up it.

Bryce snorted as he took within the cake toppers. He walked over, my coronary heart beating faster as he neared the condom wrapper. Choosing up the superhero and the ‘50s housewife, he laughed as he held them earlier than inserting them again on the desk.

“Why do I really feel like breaking out into Grease Lightnin’ hastily?” he requested with a smile on his face, leaning again towards the desk.

In a sequence of unlucky occasions—that might solely occur to me the morning after shedding my virginity to my brother’s greatest pal after I ran away from my wedding ceremony—Bryce’s leaning shifted my gown, exposing the condom wrapper in all its black and gold glory.

Magnum.

That phrase would ceaselessly be imprinted in my mind because the factor that crashed my probability at happiness.

In sluggish movement, Bryce bent over and picked it up like he thought it could be a joke condom wrapper. He turned it over after which again to Hawk. My brother’s face morphed into one I’d by no means seen earlier than as his lips thinned, his brows dipped, and his eyes grew to become pinpoints as rage took over.

Faster than I may blink, he reared his hand again and punched Hawk within the face. His head whipped round on the drive, however he did nothing to cease it. Hawk’s shoulders slumped in resignation as he took it.

I screamed in alarm, tears pricking my eyes as I attempted to leap between them. This wasn’t how I wished this morning to go. However now that we had been right here, I needed to do one thing. I couldn’t let all of it crumble.

“How may you?” Bryce screamed, shaking his hand, and I apprehensive he’d damage himself. “She’s my child sister, dude. What occurred to bro code?”

“It’s not like that, Bry.”

Bryce scoffed, shaking his head. “Fucking my sister when she’s essentially the most weak is low. I assumed you had higher morals than that.”

Ouch.

It didn’t matter that it had taken us each to cross the road; Bryce solely blamed Hawk. For his or her friendship and my coronary heart, I couldn’t let Hawk or Bryce smash that. I may see that now. Bryce would by no means settle for this—Hawk and me. So, I did the one factor I may; I gave my brother the transplant he wanted to outlive.

Besides as a substitute of bone marrow, I’d give him my coronary heart.

“It was all me, Bry. I received him drunk and took benefit of him. I instructed Hawk that if he didn’t, I’d go right down to the bar and convey again the primary particular person I bumped into.”

Hawk moved to cease me, his eyes laborious as he stared at me, urging me to close up and let him deal with it. However I couldn’t try this. So I turned to him, holding his mismatched eyes and realizing I had to make sure he understood. It was the one approach.

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