Crazy About a Cowboy by Dylann Crush

Author:Dylann Crush [Crush, Dylann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-05-25T00:00:00+00:00

fifteen

Jasper scrubbed a towel over his hair as he stepped out of the shower. Looked like Colin had gotten up earlier, raided the fridge, and was now passed out again in his bed. He and his brother were going to have to have a heart-to-heart soon. But right now, Colin needed sleep more than anything. He looked like shit. Shit that had been run over a few times. Besides, he wasn’t going anywhere without his boots, and Jasper didn’t want to let his brother’s unwelcome arrival get between what had started up with him and Delilah.

By the time he’d tiptoed into the bedroom and pulled on some clean clothes, Colin stirred.

“Hey.” Colin swung his legs over the side of the bed. “Where are you off to looking so spruced up?”

“Dinner.”

Colin ran a hand over his belly. “I’m starving. Want to pick me up something while you’re there?”

Jasper shoved an arm through his sleeve. “Not really. Are you ready to talk to Bodie?”

Colin let his head drop. “I changed my mind. Just give me my boots back, and I’ll be on my way.”

“That’s how you want to play it?” Jasper asked. “You show up here, a gash in your arm, and now that you’re fixed up, you want to pretend like everything’s fine again?”

“Look”—Colin stood and stretched his arms over his head—“I was in a jam. You helped me out, and now I’ll be on my way.”

“I’m not going to continue to protect you.”

“Is that what you call it?” Colin smirked. “No offense, little bro, but not even you can protect me from the bogeymen I’m involved with now.”

“It doesn’t have to be this way, you know. I can help.”

“Help what? I’m not going back to jail. I can’t.” His gaze changed. Something dark passed through. Colin stepped into the jeans he’d shed when he crawled into Jasper’s bed the night before. “I’d rather die than go back to prison.”

“What if it didn’t come to that? Let me talk to Bodie. We’ll figure something out.” Jasper hadn’t planned on seeing his brother again. But now that he was here, how could he turn him away without trying to help?

He thought he was helping by taking the blame for Colin’s absence. He’d rather have his parents think that he and Colin had a falling-out than break his mom’s heart by telling her he’d gone to jail. He thought he was protecting everyone. But now he knew he couldn’t spend his life trying to fix everything for everyone. It was impossible. And sooner or later, the lies he told, even if he’d told them with good intentions, were going to catch up to him.

“I don’t think Bodie’s going to want to hear what I have to say. At least not enough to keep me from going back to jail.” Colin cocked his head. “Any chance I can bum a clean shirt off of you?”

“Yeah, take what you want.” It was clear Colin wasn’t going to accept his help. Maybe he could appeal to his buried sense of family.

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