Feels Like Home by Dakota Harrison

Author:Dakota Harrison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781952560071
Publisher: Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2020-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

James faced Zac in the vesting room of the small church and grinned sheepishly. “So, how do I look?”

Zac raised an eyebrow. “You look like you’re ready to bolt out the damned door any second now.”

James’s laugh sounded a little less freaked out. “You’re supposed to be helping me, not trash talkin’ me.”

Zac’s grin matched James’s. “I am helping. I’m going to stand in the doorway so you can’t run like a scared little rabbit.”

James shook his head and straightened his waistcoat for the fifteenth time.

“Stop fiddling. You look great. Aila’s not going to care if you’re standing there in a sheet, as long as you marry her.”

James eyed him, his eyes narrowing, a calculating expression washing over his face.

“You don’t look too scruffy yourself. Real clothes, and a brush through that hair.” James reached over and messed up Zac’s hair before he could duck away.

“Hey! A guy doesn’t just go messin’ with his brother’s hair, ya know?” Zac grumbled as he ducked out of reach. He shoved his hands through the mass and pushed it back off his face, trying to tame it again. “Aila will be real pissed if I walk in there all messy.”

“Cat won’t mind though.”

Zac stopped dead. His heart threatened to bounce right out of his chest.

“No.”

“No what?”

Zac closed his eyes and breathed deep. “You know exactly what.”

James’s shoes echoed on the wooden floor. He could feel the heat of his body, he was that close. Zac opened his eyes.

“We were eighteen when we made that agreement. Its usefulness is long past.”

Zac shook his head. Not now, not here. “I’m not discussing this.”

“But Cat—”

“And we’re not discussing Cat! You hear me? She was the one thing we agreed to never talk about, remember?”

Zac turned to walk away. James grabbed his shoulder and forced him around.

“There’s gonna come a point where we have to talk about Cat!”

Fury flared, an anger so pure and undiluted that it had taken every scrap of strength he’d had over the years to hold inside, hidden away. A pain that didn’t want to go away.

He got up in James’s grille and let fly.

“You wanna talk about Cat? And what exactly are we going to talk about? How you weren’t satisfied with me giving up everything for you, that you had to add Cat to the mix too? You could’ve had almost any girl you’d wanted. Fuck, Jimmy! Why her?”

Anguish raced over James’s face. “This is exactly what I’m talking about. I asked you at the time if it was okay. I told you I wouldn’t ask her if there was any chance you’d be upset. You told me to!”

“What did you expect me to say? ‘No, don’t. Please, think of me.’ If you were half the brother I thought you were, you never would’ve gone there. You wouldn’t have had to ask. You knew I still loved her.”

James dropped his gaze to the floor, unable to hold his. His shoulders drooped, his whole body a picture of dejection.

Zac reined it in.

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