I am an asshole.
Dante and Talon are holding Silver back, but his face is red, and he’s still screaming.“What the fuck is wrong with you?Have you terrorized her even after you knew she was my sister?”
I nod.Because I have.
I terrorize Briana every hour of every fucking day.I can’t stop myself.I’ll never stop.It’s a deep-seated desire.And it’s one she shares.She needs me to control her as badly as I need to do the controlling.
“Why?Fucking explain to me why.She’s my goddamnsister!” he screams.
“She’s my girl,” I tell him calmly as I rub my jaw where he got me good.
Silver lurches forward, trying to get to me, held back by two strong sets of arms.“Yourgirl.Are you fucking kidding me?”
Lucien is at my side.“Rook?What the fuck were you thinking?”
I take a step back.“Do you think I wanted this?Fuck, no.I didn’t set out to break the rules, and I sure as fuck didn’t know Briana was your sister.I followed all the rules to the letter the night I grabbed her.We were at a party.I pulled her into the dark pantry.But I couldn’t shake her from my system.I needed to see her again.”
“How did you even know where she lived?”Dante asks.
I blow out a breath, my shoulders dropping as I admit.“I saw her before that night.I happened to jog past her house when she was moving in.She caught my eye.I started following her.”
Silver jerks against Dante and Talon again.“Following her?That’s against the rules.”
“Yeah.”I nod.“But it was before I grabbed her.And then after… Well, I needed more.I told myself I could get her out of my system.”
“How many times?”Silver shouts.
My lungs fill with oxygen and then I release the breath.“I don’t know, Silver.But I’m in contact with her every hour of every day now.”
His nostrils flare.“And she’s never seen you?”
“Right.I go to her at night.She wears a blindfold.”
“Willingly?”Lucien asks.
“Yes.”I look toward the entrance to the dining room.I hate that she left.She was so upset, and now she’s out in the world alone, probably distraught.I hope she went home, but she might not have.I can’t look at my phone right now to track her.That would infuriate Silver further.
Silver is still breathing heavily, his hands fisted at his sides, but his shoulders relax.
When Dante and Talon release him, he lifts a hand to run it through his hair.“Make me fucking understand.Tell me why you would fucking keep this from me after you saw her here, in our house.”
“I swear I didn’t know she was your sister before that moment.We were already deeply involved.She had no idea it was me, so I left her in the dark.”
“And me,” Silver points out, holding a finger up.“You left me in the fucking dark, too.”
“Yes.I assumed I would work her out of my system and grow bored of her.I’ve never had any other sort of experience with a woman.I figured eventually we would both go our separate ways, and she would never know it had been me.”I rub my jaw again.It’s going to smart tomorrow.I hold his gaze.I need him to understand.This is not how I imagined him finding out.I’m a coward.I should have told him by now.I’m not sure when or how I eventually would have done so, but here we are.He needs to know the truth.“She’s mine.”
Silver shakes his head.“What the fuck does that mean?We don’t keep the girls we prank.”
“Well, I am.”
“She’s not a fucking possession, you son of a bitch.”Silver stiffens as though he might take another swing.He can beat me into the ground for all I care.It changes nothing.
“She’smine,” I reiterate.
His chest rises and falls dramatically.“No.”He shakes his head.“You can’t have her, not like that.You’re fucked in the head, the same as me.Same asallof us.We weren’t meant to be in relationships.We’d destroy anyone who got in our path.”
I nod.“That may be true.I won’t deny I’m fucked up.You know I am.You are, too.We all are.We have a shared experience that made us this way.I know we agreed to specific terms, but I’m breaking the rules now.Blowing them out of the water.Briana is my girl.She will be until my dying breath.”