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Okay, so “a little” pissed was an understatement. Wake was a lot pissed.
Noted.
“Wake,” I started, ready to blurt everything out.
“I thought I could trust you!” he all but yelled in the middle of the hallway, causing people to turn our way. Doctors, nurses, patient care technicians, and even the hospitality workers were now all staring.
Fuck.
“My sister is…” Wake scowled, his teeth gleaming as he spoke out of them.
“Not mine. Hasn’t been mine since well before we divorced,” I finished for him.
Wake blanked for a few seconds, and I chose to tell him everything, despite the fact that he’d been acting like an ass since he’d walked in the door.
Poor Morrigan had no clue.
She just knew that Wake disliked her immensely. She’d clocked him from the moment he’d appeared in the doorway, looking as if he was about to tear the hospital down with his bare hands.
“What?” Wake asked, sounding just as baffled as he looked.
“I didn’t start dating her when I got out,” I said. “We were over, well and truly over, when we got divorced. Had been, really, for a long time. We made a great kid together, but that was truly all it was for either one of us. A break from reality. She always loved that district attorney. I’ve always loved her.”
I jerked my chin in the direction of Morrigan’s door.
Wake looked at me. Really looked at me. And I knew he knew when he saw it.
My conviction.
“Why would you not tell me?” he asked. “Why didn’t she? Why the lies at all?”
I shrugged. “Honestly, I didn’t tell you one way or the other because I wasn’t going to lie to you again. Had you asked what was going on, I would’ve told you. But you didn’t ask. You assumed. And I have no control over what Yeti says or does. She should’ve been the one to tell you.”
“Don’t you think Bowie will be confused?” he asked.
I shook my head. “He’s the one that we haven’t misguided at all. He asked when he heard some stuff at school about Yeti and me. I wouldn’t allow Danyetta to confirm it. He needed to know the truth.”
Wake blew out a breath. “So what was the last year about? Why act like it was anything different than what it was?”
“You’ll have to ask her,” I said. “But all I know from what she’s told me was that being in a relationship, or what appeared to be a relationship, was solving a few problems for her. I had no reason not to, since I haven’t been seeing anyone else. So I thought, why not?”
Which, in hindsight, it might’ve been something I should’ve put a little more effort into, and maybe I wouldn’t be in the situation I was currently in. But also, I didn’t owe Wake that explanation. I didn’t need to know what Danyetta told everyone as long as she wasn’t lying about our relationship now.
The last year of her doing whatever she’d had to do, I’d seen a difference in her demeanor. She’d changed for the better, and I hadn’t been doing anything else. So why the fuck not?
“I’m asking you first,” he snapped.
I looked at him.
“I’ve had a really long fucking day,” I said. “And it’s not even nine in the morning yet. Not to mention, you’ve come in here, being one of the most important people in my life, and practically yelled down the house about how you disagree with everything Morrigan related. And if anyone deserves your ire, it’s your sister. Not Morrigan. Morrigan, who has had a very tough life up until this point.”
Wake’s jaw clenched.
“I need you to put forth a little bit of effort and put yourself in her shoes,” I said. “Because the way you just acted, after she was literally just attacked, is abhorrent.”
Wake deflated then, finally realizing just how badly he’d fucked up.
Yeah, it was bad.
