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Nolan casually gives his lips a slow lick during an even slower nod prior to proclaiming. “No.”
“No?”
“No.”
“What the fuck do you mean no?!!”
“I mean we waited a lifetime for you, Rabbit.” His shoulder shrug is clumsy. Uncertain. “At least that’s what it feels like. You got here, and fuck, I just…we just…felt it. And every moment you’ve been with us, our lives…they suddenly make sense in a way they never did before, in a way they never will again if you’re not with us. And you know what? I think you feel the exact same fucking way.”
My lips press together in a refusal to admit that to be true.
“I think that’s why you’ve really stayed. Because you don’t wanna be without us either. And that’s what really fucking scares you. Not some psycho ex asshole’s little lackeys that come sniffing a little too close or the bastard himself that you know we aren’t afraid to put down like the rabid dog that he is. No.” Nolan arrogantly shakes his head while stepping closer. “You, Bunny Abernathy, are afraid of staying fucking put and fighting because it means you give an actual fuck about someone besides yourself, which is scary shit you haven’t had to do in a really long ass time.”
All the air in my lungs seems to be stolen in a single sentence.
“You wanna leave? Fine.” His eyebrows bounce into the air. “Fucking. Leave.” The craning of his neck forward paralyzes me in place. “But grow a pair and stop lying about the why.”
All of a sudden, a door opening calls our attention over my shoulder to where Kipp is frantically panting. “Fuck! There you are!” He scrubs his face as if hoping to rub some sanity back into himself. “What the fuck is goin’ on?!”
“Good question, Kid.”
I cut my glare back to him.
“What the fuck is goin’ on, Bunny?” An unreadable expression plants itself in his face. “Are you comin’ or are you goin’?”
Chapter 20
Nolan
I can’t believe this is really fucking happening.
But it is.
And you know what?
I feel like I’m too old to be doing this shit.
Tossing the hinge pin over to Kipp prompts our runaway culprit to stop gnawing on the pen in her mouth to grump, “Is this really necessary?”
“Yes.”
“Seriously?”
“Still yes.”
“Okay, but I didn’t actually leave,” Rabbit poorly argues at the same time I carry my bedroom door to join the others that are stacked near the kitchen table.
“Only because Nolan fucking saw you first!” bellows The Kid.
Huh.
Didn’t know his voice could get that loud.
Or that fucking deep.
The woman in trouble teasingly taunts, “You sound a little cranky. I tried really hard not to wake you up from your nap.”
Swallowing my snicker isn’t necessary due to the loud dropping of the door masking the sound.
