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Chapter Seventeen
Despite Dane’sreassurance and my own, I feel nervous approaching my brother. I’m crossing everything that Beth hasn’t beaten me to it and spilt my secrets, but I don’t think she would do that.
They’re sitting together in the corner of the common room when I return after speaking to Dane. Truthfully, I’m surprised they haven’t headed straight upstairs—not that I want to think about that.
Yuck.
I approach the table and Logan’s eyes come to me. “Where’d you go? I wanted to say hello and you’d vanished.”
“I had something to do,”I sign. Then nervously, I ask, “Do you have a moment?”
I feel terrible, dragging him away from Beth when they’ve only just reunited and his time will probably be limited here, but I need to do this. Clearly, Beth agrees because she gives me a warm smile and a nod of encouragement.
I wipe my sweaty palms on the tops of my jeans and try to get moisture into my mouth as I lead him out into the corridor. This really is not the ideal place to do this, but what choice do I have? Everyone here knows about me and Dane—it’s bound to come out.
“What’s going on, Kenz?” my brother asks as I turn to face him, my nerves tingling.
“I need to tell you something before you hear it anywhere else.”
His brow draws together. “Tell me what?”
I swallow hard and let all my fear drain away. This is my big brother—the man who has always protected me and kept me safe. He’s not going to hurt me.
“Me and Dane… we’re together.”I sign the last part quickly. Just like ripping off a Band-Aid, right?
Logan stares at me for a whole minute before he says, “What?”
“We’re together.”
There’s a beat of silence while he takes this in then his face contorts as he growls out, “Did that fucker take advantage of you while you’ve been staying here?”
I blink then shake my head. That’s the last thing I expected him to say, but realistically, it should have been the first. Of course Logan would consider foul play.
“Absolutely not,”I sign, my words sharp as I jolt my hands. What kind of man does he think Dane is? I’m aggrieved on his behalf.
“But he’s touched you—”
He starts to move and I place my hands on his chest, stopping him from tearing after Dane. I try to meet his gaze. When he finally lowers his eyes to me, I can see the fire blazing there. I need to get this under control, and fast. The last thing I need is my brother going off his head at another club’s VP. Not that I think the Devils would hurt Logan, but they’d sure as hell protect Dane, and if Lo got in the way of that… well, let’s just keep it from coming to that.
When I’m sure he’s going to stay put and not rush off in anger, I sign, “He’s not the bad guy here, Lo.”
I watch as my brother takes a step back from me and I ignore how much that cuts through me. I can tell he’s trying to keep hold of his temper, to stop from exploding at me when he tears his fingers through his hair. I can see the stress in every line of his body.
“When did it start?”
“The night of your wedding.” I don’t plan on telling him we slept together. I’m not sure my brother is calm enough to hear it.
He scrubs a hand over his jaw.
“This, you and him, it complicates things, Kenzie. And when I say complicates, I mean it absolutely screws things six ways from Sunday. He’s from a different club.”
“Which I’m more than aware of.”
He glares at me. “It puts you in a difficult position if we ever go up against the Devils.”
“And how likely is that?”
“Six months ago I would have laughed if you’d said we would be going up against the Reapers.”
