Breaking the Rules: A Novel (Troubleshooters Book 16) by Suzanne Brockmann

Author:Suzanne Brockmann [Brockmann, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780345521248
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

SEVENTEEN

Jenni, God, I’m so sorry,” Danny said as Izzy closed the bathroom door behind him. The other SEAL was on his knees, eyes tightly closed, bowing to the porcelain god, having just sacrificed his dinner into its murky shallows. Izzy helped them both out by reaching forward and flushing the monster.

“She knows that,” Izzy told this man who, despite trying as hard as he had, had never managed to become his friend.

Dan didn’t open his eyes. “Leave me the fuck alone.”

“Yeah, well, small apartment, single bathroom,” Izzy pointed out. “I kind of need to go. Don’t move—I’ll just piss past your head.”

Danny did more than open his eyes at that—he actually hit the pause button on his current state of sheer misery as he turned to look at Izzy in disgust and disbelief.

Izzy smiled back at him as he hoisted himself up to sit on the counter of the sink. There wasn’t much counter, so he was half in, half out of the sink itself. Still it was the proper visual aid to reassure Dan that he was only kidding about that piss-past-your-head thing.

“I’m on Team Jenn for this one,” Izzy told Dan. “You’re not your father, Gillman. Never have been, never will be.”

Dan didn’t want to hear that—and he tried to slip back into his post-vomit, beat-himself-up state. “Seriously, Zanella, I don’t need your bullshit right now.”

So Izzy reached over with his foot and gave the man a not very gentle push, making him lose his balance and bump his shoulder into the wall near the toilet-paper holder.

“Hey!”

“Fuck you for the way you treat your sister,” Izzy told him. “You’re an asshole and a total dick, and if you weren’t so pathetic with your I’m so tired and your I’m so jet-lagged and your Poor me, I almost lost my leg and now I have an ouchy boo-boo, and Don’t let me tear open the stitches because I still might bleed out and die, I’d kick your ass down to the street and pound you black and blue.”

And okay. Maybe that was too much, because now Dan was getting angry back at him and was about to issue a challenge for Izzy to just fucking try it.

So Izzy pushed himself off the sink and did exactly what he’d threatened. He unfastened his pants and took a leak right there in the empty bowl.

And instead of standing up, Dan pushed himself even farther back into the corner, against the wall, to stay out of the splash zone. “Jesus!”

“There are times,” Izzy said, raising his voice a little to be heard over the pleasantly tinkling waterfall, “when I fucking hate the things you say and do. But I do know that you would rather die than hurt Jennilyn. I know how much you love her—hell, I probably know that better than she does. And I also know, as flipping crazy as you drive me most of the time? You would never intentionally hit your woman. What happened was an accident. And I believe what you said—that it will never happen again.

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