Every Wrong You Right by J. E. Parker

Author:J. E. Parker [Parker, J. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

Twenty-One

Ty

“This is complete horseshit.”

I tore my gaze from the eggs I’d just finished scrambling for Heidi and looked over at Chase. Standing in front of the pantry, he held an opened box of cereal in one hand and an empty mixing bowl in the other.

“What’s the matter now?” I asked, carrying my girl’s plate to the table where Ashley sat, not-so-patiently waiting for Heidi to finish showering and join us.

Chase didn’t reply as he sat the bowl down on the countertop and shoved his hand into the box, digging through the cereal. Irritated as hell, he ripped his empty fingers free a second later and lifted the cardboard to his face, reading the colorful font printed across the front. “These assholes forgot my stickers.” He pointed at the front of the package. “It says right here that they’re included with my purchase. They cheated me.”

My hand froze on the back of the chair I was about to pull out from the table. “You’re kidding me, right?” At twenty Chase was way too damn old to be upset over stickers. “Seriously, tell me you’re joking.”

Ashley giggled but said nothing.

“I’m not kidding you, and hell no, I’m not joking,” he replied, scowling. “The stickers were the entire reason I bought this nasty, sawdust tasting crap instead of my regular Lucky Charms. I was gonna give them to Gracie.”

“Guess you’ll just have to find another way to bribe her into liking you,” I mumbled, sitting down across from Ashley.

“He doesn’t need to bribe her. Gracie already loves him,” Ashley said, pushing a stray lock of hair behind her ear. “Lucca though”—she smiled—“that’s a different story.”

Chase’s scowl deepened. “It’s because he knows your dad hates me. Your brother may only be six, but he emulates everything Anthony does, despising me included.”

Ashley’s face dropped. “My dad doesn’t hate you nor does he despise you,” she said, glaring at my kid brother over her shoulder. “He just doesn’t trust you.”

The knucklehead’s grip on the box tightened. “He has no reason not to trust me.”

I opened my mouth, ready to intervene before Chase said something stupid that would hurt Ashley’s feelings and might‘ve resulted in Heidi killing him, but Ashley beat me to the punch. “You have a penis,” she whisper-hissed. “That’s reason enough.”

Cheeks flaming, she turned her head back in my direction and dropped her gaze to the untouched oatmeal I’d fixed her minutes before.

I chuckled. “Your girl makes a solid point, bro. If I were Anthony, I wouldn’t trust you either.”

Chase’s eyes narrowed. “Thanks a lot, big brother,” he said, shaking his head. “You’re supposed to be on my side.” He pointed from himself to me, then back to himself again. “Ya know, teammates and shit.”

I shrugged. “I’m just saying. When I have a little girl, you can bet your ass I’m not letting any man with a fire hose dangling between his legs come within fifteen feet of her before she’s thirty, maybe even forty.”

Ashley burst into laughter.

Chase though, he didn’t. “When?” he asked, a look of horror clearly etched on his face.

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