by Boone, Azure
Epilogue
Three months later
Daniel met his beautiful fiancé at the door, anxious to get her naked the second he walked in. “You have companyyyyy,” she whispered, excited.
What the fuck? “Who?” Nobody visited him.
Sofia leaned up and kissed him on the edge of his mouth. He pulled her hard against him and kissed her properly, pissed that was all she was going to give him.
She pushed away, pointing toward the living room. “He’s so excited to see you.”
He? Daniel finally walked into the living room to see who the sexual intruder was. And froze.
A tall handsome blond stood up. “Hey bro? Remember me? Been a while, last time I saw you was what, seven years ago? Your little brother grew up. ”
Holy fucking shit. He looked at Sofia then at him, wondering how and why he was in his house. By Sofia’s bright eyes, it was her. Somehow, she thought she’d given him the biggest gift ever. Son-of-a-bitch, his sexy Google therapist really did it this time. Fuuuuck. That’s what he got for acting like he gave a shit about anything and anybody but her. He’d been telling her little lies, unable to stand just how sick he was, not wanting to overload her with his flaws.
“Baby?” Sofia wondered.
Daniel looked at Sofia and realized he was blowing his cover as a caring big brother. Her wide sparkly gaze said What the hell are you doing? Say something nice. Daniel crossed the room and took the boy man into an embrace feeling like he needed to make his next moves count. “Man, Seth, sorry, I’m just…speechless.” He patted the kid, no, definitely man, too hard in an effort to gain positive traction in this fucked up situation.
“Been a while huh big bro?”
Daniel smelled cigarettes and booze on him and fought a sneer. No way did he want him near Sofia, or his life, not even for a visit. “Sure has.”
“I figured he could stay in the spare bedroom,” Sofia chirped like joyful bird. “We needed a handyman, a delivery boy, and a dishwasher at the bakery, and guess what? He can do all that.” couldn’t stop his jaw from trembled from holding his mouth shut and his body still. “And of course you have your brother!”
Daniel laughed to keep from doing something else very bad. Like curse. He had his brother. And that was the epitome of her little therapy, right there. Daniel had been very obliging in her shade tree doctoring whims because he thought it was the sweetest damn thing ever. Even funny. But fuck, this was not funny and not sweet.
Daniel went to Sofia and bear hugged her when he saw another who are you and what did you do with my fiancé shadow cross her face. “Baby, thank you. You are an angel.” And she fucking was. He hugged her long, getting lost in the smell of her for a moment, pressing a kiss into her hair.
“Daniel,” she whispered.
He gritted his teeth at the first inconvenience and set Sofia down. He snuck a glance at Seth and froze. The bastard was eyeing Sofia’s body.
Fuck that shit. Daniel vowed right then to figure a way to get rid of him. Get him a life of his own away from them. Something that seemed like he cared.
“And another great thing about this too is, you now have a best man,” Sofia added, ecstatic for him. “And he can be Dara’s chaperone.”
A light bulb of salvation lit up his mind. Dara. What had Sofia said about her? There was no problem she wouldn’t tackle when it came to Sofia? Relief trickled in as he considered. He could talk to her, she would help get rid of him once he explained his problem.
But God help him if that fucker crossed the line until then.
