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Why fall for another woman I can’t have?
I fell for Charlie Ravenel, and it’s been hell. She was my babysitter, eight years my senior, and my first love, and time is an asshole because it didn’t work in our favor.
Charlie went off to college, then she joined the Marines, then she married one, and I was so damn scared while she served in Afghanistan, and I was right to be. She came home a widow and shot three times, and I swore I’d take care of her.
But Charlie didn’t feel that way about me. Hell, she suffered so much she didn’t feel anything. Then she took a job as a bodyguard in Europe and returned a few years later in love with Daniel Pierce.
How the fuck do you compete with him?
You can’t. He’s a goddamn orgasm wrapped in a huge British celebrity bow, and I don’t blame her.
And when Daniel questioned me about planting all those flowers in Charlie’s yard for her, she defended me to him, saying, “Daniel Pierce, hush your fuss. Silas is like my little brother.”
Yep, that’d be a boner-killer, but mine was non-stop for her.
I never saw Charlie as my big sister.
No, I saw her as the most stunning badass I’d ever met, and no one held a candle to her. Sure, I fucked around. I even fell in love, but still. If Charlie Ravenel called, I dropped everything for her.
But now she, Daniel, and their twins, who I love so much too, are away while he films The Druid in Spain, and I felt hollow without her. And him. I grew to care for Daniel, too.
My life sucked. All the fucking around I did, didn’t help until Cade and I started hanging out more.
Hell, yes, lightning can strike twice.
Because Cade Bryant looks nothing like Charlie, but damn if she ain’t a hot badass too. Where Charlie’s petite, Cade’s tall. Charlie’s blonde and Cade’s a brunette who wears her hair in this sexy short style that makes her look like she’ll fuck you or fuck you up… and you’d drop to your knees for both.
So it’s my motherfucking luck that I meet another incredible woman, and guess what?
She’s in love with a celebrity too.
Redix Goddamn Dean.
Just drop the ball and call the game done if Redix Dean appears on the field of love because he wins any sex or heart thrown his way.
Game over.
So why do this?
I don’t know. That’s a state of mind I’m a pig in shit for because I’m happy that way.
I’m not like most folks. I trust my heart and wherever it takes me. I don’t need to know. I’ve loved someone I can’t have. I’ve loved someone who couldn’t love me back. So fuck it, I’ve learned the hard way that love doesn’t kill me, so bring it.
I pick the navy Tom Ford because Redix will be there tonight, and I know he’ll wear black. He always does.
And I’m so damn tired of people asking me if I’m his brother.
If they only knew how we’re VERY different.
But I can’t hate the guy. Yeah, he keeps breaking Cade’s heart like eggs dropped to the floor, but the man is beautiful. It makes his sins easier to forgive.
And his sacrifice?
Cade told me what Redix did for her. How when they were high school sweethearts, Redix protected her from three men who tried to rape her, so they kidnapped Redix instead. She hasn’t told me what happened to him. I respect that. It’s not my pain to know… but I can imagine.
That sacrifice makes Redix more than beautiful. It makes him a God to me because that’s love. Love like no one ever wants to know but can’t deny.
So it’s a humble compliment if people think we’re spit from the same mouth.
