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“Wait. I’m still trying to catch up here,” Linc said. “You knew you were their sister before you came here?”
Poor Linc. He really was struggling to keep up.
“Everyone needs to sit the fuck down!” Tanner said.
Kye let out a shocked cry.
Linc shot Tanner a dirty look, stepping forward to take Kye out of Ryleigh’s arms. Then he started lightly bouncing him, patting his back.
“What’s going on?” Lilac whispered across Ryleigh to Opal.
“Linc has turned into Mr. Mom. It’s pretty funny. This morning when I got up, I found him vacuuming in a flowery apron.”
“Why aren’t you at work?” she asked.
“I don’t go in until later this afternoon for training. Then I start for real tomorrow. The apron was pure gold.”
“Are the two of you finished?” Linc grumbled. “And it was not a flowery apron. Those were birds.”
“The birds were sitting on flowers,” Opal muttered.
“I think the fact you were wearing an apron says it all,” Lilac added. “Flowers or birds, doesn’t really matter.”
Poor Linc. He looked rather red in the face. Tanner would be amused if he wasn’t so worried about Lilac.
“Lilac. Sit. Down.”
Whoa.
Lilac found herself sitting before she even had time to process Tanner’s words. To her surprise, Ryleigh was seated beside her.
“Whoa. Didn’t know you had that in you, Cowboy,” Opal drawled as she sat slowly. She crossed one leg over the other. “Are you sure you’re not a Dom?”
Tanner shot her a quelling look.
“Right. Enough talking. Except for you.” He pointed at Ryleigh. “You need to keep talking.”
“Don’t point at her,” Linc growled, stepping in front of Ryleigh. “And do not growl at her like that. Understand me?”
Lilac turned to Ryleigh, who was staring at Linc’s back, her mouth open in shock.
“If Ryleigh is our sister, then she’s under our care,” Alec snapped back. “And you have no say in this.”
“I have every say since I’m her guardian. And I don’t care if you are her brothers or not. Ryleigh is mine.”
“Holy moly,” Ryleigh whispered.
“Okay, maybe everyone should calm down a bit,” Opal said as she stared down at her nails. “I really need to get a manicure. Where was I? Oh, yeah. You do remember that we’re all in the room, right? All of this male posturing is cute and stuff. But we’ve all got shit to do and Ryleigh has a story to tell. So why don’t you all sit your butts down so she can tell it.”
Linc turned, staring down at them. His jaw was clenched.
“Please,” Ryleigh whispered. She had taken hold of both Lilac and Opal’s hands. “I need to get this all out and I can’t do that if you’re all at each other’s throats.”
Linc nodded and stepped away to sit in an armchair. Tanner squeezed in next to her even though they all had to shuffle over. Then he lifted her up onto his lap.
“Tanner!” she protested.
“Hush. I need this. And you’re going to give it to me.”
