“What’s wrong?”
I ran a hand over my face. “Everything,” I confessed. “She slept with someone. She fucked someone else.”
Justin’s sigh was loud, and I knew what he was about to say. The same thing Scribe had said.
“You were dead, little brother. You made the decision to stay dead so she would be safe. So that she could move on. You can’t fault her for doing what you wanted her to do.”
“Why does everyone keep saying that?”
“Because it’s the truth. I get it; you stayed faithful to her. But you fucking knew you were alive. She didn’t. She believed you were never coming back.”
I knew he was right, and I knew I was being an asshole. But the thought of another man fucking my wife made me want to murder someone.
“There’s something else,” I said, changing the subject.
“What?”
I sighed and waited for the server to leave after dropping off my order.
“I don’t want to hear a bunch of shit from you. No‘I told you sos.’”
“Now I’m fucking worried.”
“Remember how I made you promise not to dig into Morgan?”
“Yeah,” my brother said, dragging out the word.
“I should have let you.”
“Oh shit. What did you find?”
“I didn’t find shit; apparently Romeo did.”
I shared the story with my brother, starting with Cameron and his irritating personality, and ending with me storming out of the clubhouse.
Justin laughed loud and hard. “I want to meet this kid.”
“Not a chance.”
“I don’t know, little brother. You might need back up when King gets to town.”
“I can handle King.”
“And his father? Your wife’s father?”
“She’s not my wife,” I said, but the words felt hollow, tasteless. Much like the food I was trying to force down my throat. I pushed the plate away and pulled the coffee closer. At least that was palatable.
“That’s the first time you’ve accepted that,” my brother said quietly.
“She lied to me, Justin. She slept with someone else. And I don’t want to hear fuck all about her thinking I was dead. It’s over.”
“You’re an asshole.”
“I know.”
I talked with Justin for a few more minutes before he let me go and I called Zombie.
“Chasm, when you coming home, brother?”