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“No, of course not.”
“Corbin.”
“Daddy!” The two of them started their shit until I gave them each a look that had them sitting back in their seats. “Just go take care of your sister.” At least he still had a conscience.
ALYSSA
“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens….” Who the hell is calling me? I reached for the dash to answer my phone. “What up? Who dis?”
“Alyssa?”
“Sherry?”
“I heard.”
“Heard what?”
“About Lacey, I’m so sorry. She said you were acting crazy. I want you to calm down and don’t do anything stupid. They just made a mistake is….” Click! Now that’s sad. That’s my new ex-best friend.
We’ve been friends since we were in diapers, but it looks like she’s an adultery sympathizer. I don’t have time for that shit. Granted, Lacey is her little sister, so her loyalty should be with her blood, and it would’ve been unfair to make her choose sides, so I’m doing it for her.
She tried calling back, but I just went ahead and blocked her now to get it over with. I parked haphazardly in my driveway and went on inside because it was late as hell. I made my way to the guestroom after grabbing my laptop case. I have a lot of work to do.
Before I could make it to the door, I heard tires screeching again, and I knew somehow my brothers were back. I wonder if they knew that my neighbors were probably sleeping. The seventy-something couple that lived next door goes to bed at around seven or eight in the evening, and the other neighbors on the other side have young kids.
My neighborhood is a hodgepodge of ages, from the very young to the very old. I walked over and unlocked the door. It was my sisters-in-law. “Where are the guys?”
“They went to the twenty-four-hour store?”
“For what this time of night?”
They just shrugged their shoulders and made their way inside to the living room. Oh well, I didn’t have work tomorrow since I wasn’t supposed to be back for another couple of days, and if I was needed I could just work from home anyway.
I grabbed those bottles of wine from the dining room table, along with fresh glasses, and went to join them. Jilly popped the cork and poured us all a hefty sip before taking her seat between the other two, leaving the big, easy chair that I loved to sit in for me.
“So, what brings you lot back here?”
“We just came from your Dad’s.”
“Oh? This late?” They looked at each other and back at me.
“You know Helen wants to call the cops?”
“Helen has six days and a few hours to get her ass outta dodge before I beat her ass again. I’m not worried.”
“Alyssa, why?”
“What do you mean? It’s the day of reckoning. I’ve decided that I’m not going to let anyone mistreat me or my family anymore.”
“But, your Dad?”
“Why not him? My mother used to be a vibrant, lovely woman; now she’s a shell of herself on account of him and that wailing hyena.”
“Your Mom is still lovely. She was just waiting for you to finish school to start going out again.”
“She shouldn’t have to. A promise should mean something. Don’t gangsters break people’s kneecaps for not paying up?”
“You’re lucky Bri talked them out of calling the cops.”
