Double Major (Portland Storm) by Catherine Gayle

Author:Catherine Gayle [Gayle, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Night Shift Publishing
Published: 2014-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

FOR AS LONG as I could remember, Zee and I had agreed that we would be each other’s best man. It had been a given since well before either of us knew who we would marry, and definitely before it had been determined that we would have a joint wedding. It only made sense for both of us to fill that role for one another, after all, even though we were also both playing the part of the groom tonight. One thing about this arrangement that I counted as a blessing was that it allowed me the opportunity to make a toast. Zee had said he didn’t really want to, which didn’t surprise me. He wasn’t a big talker, usually—not as much as I was. He tended to say what needed to be said when he needed to say it, and then he moved on. I was far more likely to stick my foot in my mouth.

I didn’t want to just toast him and Dana, though. There was something more that I needed to do, whether it was comfortable or not. What I said tonight needed to mean a hell of a lot more than just, Here’s to your future, I love you both, don’t fuck things up and hurt my sister and make me hurt you, you bastard, because I don’t want to have to do that.

I needed to man up and apologize. Not only that, but I needed to make sure they understood—both of them—that while I would still gladly rip off Zee’s balls and shove them up his ass if he stepped one toe out of line as far as my sister was concerned, I knew that wasn’t going to be necessary. None of it would be. He’d proven time and again that not only was he never going to do anything that might hurt her, but that he was quite possibly the best thing on the planet for her. I had to be sure they realized I was aware of all of that. That I’d accepted it. That I respected him for it, and yes, I fucking loved him for it.

He wasn’t just my best friend anymore. As of today—a couple of hours ago, actually—he was my brother. We had always felt as close as brothers to me, but now it was official. Legal. He’d just married my sister.

I hadn’t completely avoided apologizing. Not exactly. I’d given them both half-assed excuses and told them I regretted some of the shit I’d said and done, and other things like that several times over the last year or so, but it had been nothing like the type of real apology they deserved because of all the crap I’d done to try to protect Dana from him. My efforts had actually hurt them both and had driven a huge fucking wedge between us that was even now still keeping us at least somewhat apart.

Skirting away from the tough issues, not owning up to my shit—that just wasn’t like me in any other area of my life.

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