Chapter 15
That rat. He had no business calling her now when she was finally starting to feel some balance.
Genny was watching her, with a questioning look on her face.
“You probably aren’t going to be able to put him off forever.
He sounds seriously determined. And…you are going to have to tell him about the whole Kurt-spawn and everything. ”
“I don’t believe him. It’s just…revenge…
or something.” And the man was relentless.
He called her—or texted her—at least twice a week.
She kept meaning to report him for harassment or something, but…
in that secret part of herself, she almost expected him to call.
Just so she could hang up on him again. And Genny was right.
She was going to have to tell him eventually.
“Somehow, I don’t think so. I mean, guys act stupid sometimes—when they panic.”
Great. Now Genny was the expert on romance. “Just because you and Chad are engaged or something…not all guys are good like Chad and our brothers.”
“No. That they aren’t.” Genny rubbed her shoulder and grimaced. “I learned that the hard way recently.”
Greer winced. She hadn’t meant to bring that back up. She knew her sister was having nightmares about what had happened to her. “I’m sorry.”
“No. No sorries allowed. Life is short, Greer-Kat. What if it’s not a revenge plot?
What if it was just him freaking out because of what he felt for you?
I mean, if he’s despised Gene all this time for whatever reason, to fall in love with Gene’s little sister…
well, that would seriously freak a person out.
I mean, I had enough trouble falling in love with one of Gene’s best friends.
And if you avoid all men who’ve had a problem with Gene at one time or another in this town, you’ll probably die an old maid. ”
“Gene does have a bit of a reputation, doesn’t he?” He’d struggled some after his divorce. Gene had figured things out though. And…what had happened when Greer had been nine had really hurt her brother. Down to his soul.
She didn’t remember much about it, but she remembered Gene next to her in the ambulance, begging her to open her eyes and look at him.
That she was going to be okay, because her big brother was there to make it okay.
Him and Grady. She’d been able to hear them and had known she would be okay. She had known she was safe then.
Her big brothers had always meant safety to her and always would.
He had been her hero that day. Him, and Grady, who’d been behind those monsters’ car. Trying to save her.
Maybe it was time she told them that? Told them that they really were good men at heart.
Unlike Kurtland Chase.
That man was such a toad inside.
“Admit it, a part of you likes that he’s still calling, don’t you?”
Greer just looked at her big sister and glared. Genny just shrugged. “What? What did I say? Sometimes, the chase is the most fun part. When Chad was hunting me, it was really exciting. I suspected he’d catch me eventually, the anticipation of when was what kept me on my toes.”
Her sister was insane; Greer wasn’t enjoying this at all.
As her phone buzzed with a text she knew was from him, she admitted it to herself. Maybe she was…just a little.