Imperfect (Triple Canopy Book 3) by Riley Edwards

Author:Riley Edwards [Edwards, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rebels Romance
Published: 2021-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

16

“Am I interrupting?” Phoenix asked.

No, actually he didn’t ask; he simply interrupted and did it snidely.

“You are,” I told him without lifting my cheek from Luke’s chest.

“Babe,” Luke rumbled.

“For fuck’s sake, you mind taking your hands off my sister?” That was Phoenix again.

Luke’s body went still.

Shit.

We were off to the side, not yet in the middle of the festivities, but the tables and people milling about weren’t far. And when Luke and I had walked around Triple Canopy’s main building I’d noticed kids were running around.

Not the time or the place for me to get into a smackdown with my brother. It also wouldn’t be good if Luke kicked his ass. Though Phoenix was being a jerk so I figured I’d let Luke get in two good hits before I pulled them apart.

“There’re kids here. I’d appreciate you watching your mouth,” Luke rumbled.

At that point, I felt it prudent to intervene. I pushed off Luke’s chest but only far enough to slip one arm behind his back and place the other around his abs.

I was making a statement—one Phoenix didn’t miss.

“I’d appreciate—”

“Knock it off,” I seethed. “And you’re lucky there are kids around or I’d step away and let Luke handle you.”

“Babe,” Luke rumbled again. “Thought we talked about this.”

“No, you asked me not to use you to egg my brothers on. This is not that. This is me telling Phoenix he’s so far out of line it’s not funny. You caught it from River, which I kinda understand because we took him off-guard. Echo heard about it and sought you out. That was way uncool. But Phoenix, he knows River and Echo already went at you, yet here he is acting a fool for no reason. He didn’t walk up and introduce himself like a normal human being. He didn’t say hello to his sister and offer brotherly love. Nope, he walked up, interrupted us, then proceeded to be a jerk. And that’s fucked.”

I lowered the fucked part to a whisper but Phoenix still heard.

“Not five minutes ago you read me the riot act about your brothers. Told me they were all you had, they were family, and family is always your business. You were right. So you gotta know, baby, that goes both ways. You’re their family. You’re their business. You are all they have.”

“It’s not the same and you know it. This is him being an ass.”

“No, it’s him being your brother. It’s him being protective. I gotta suck it up and you do, too. So cool it, yeah?”

Throughout this exchange, Phoenix’s eyes were dancing back and forth between me and Luke. He’d lost some of his dickheadedness but not all of it.

“Fine,” I huffed and Luke smiled. “Phoenix, this is Luke. Luke, this is my youngest brother Phoenix.”

Neither man said anything and I almost felt relief when I saw Echo and River walking toward us. I had a few angry words I wanted to say to Echo but I knew he’d handle Phoenix. There was one

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