Chapter 26
Chapter Twenty-Six
KNOX
I watched her eyes fill with hurt. She looked like she wanted to cry, but she stayed strong. “Thank you for telling me,” she said with such detachment. I squeezed my fists at my sides to keep myself from reaching for her. No matter how much I wanted to be with her, I couldn’t. I had to let her go.
She slowly turned around and walked out of my office. I heard talking in the hall. I assumed she’d run into my brothers. I ignored them the best I could and took a seat at my desk. My phone buzzed in my pocket. It was a text from an employee, calling in sick for tomorrow’s shift. The last thing I wanted to deal with was texting everyone to see if someone wanted to come in.
My attention was pulled away from doing that when I heard my office door close. I glanced up and saw Keelan standing by it. He gave me a look he had given me many times whenever I’d done something he’d disagreed with. “You’re being a dumbass,” he said bluntly.
I frowned at him. Why had I been given little brothers who loved to test my patience? The twins were the worst, but Keelan had his moments.
“You want to be with her and?—”
“I’m not talking to you about this,” I snapped.
“I’m done being patient with you when it comes to her,” he snapped back. “You’ve never looked at or reacted to anyone else like you have with Shiloh. I think you love her and your reason for not being with her is stupid.”
“We’ll see how stupid it is when your relationship falls apart because one or all of you become jealous and I’ll be the only one fighting to repair this family.”
Keelan shook his head. “If that ever happened, you wouldn’t be there to bring us back together. Eventually, as you watch us be happy with her and have with her what we all know you want, it’ll be you resenting us.”
His words had me taken aback.
“Stop using us as an excuse to deny yourself a chance to be happy,” he said and stormed out.
I was left sitting there, frowning at my desk. Keelan had managed to make me question everything when it came to Shiloh and what I’d thought was the right thing to do.