Round 27
ROUND TWENTY-SEVEN
ROSE
We arrive home way later than we’d planned, almost three whole hours after we got to the Love it was Tommy and Lana forever.”
“And yet…” Covering my mouth, I chew the piping-hot egg mix. “You have a crush on her anyway?”
He snickers and cuts a piece of omelet for himself. “No crush. Never. I love her like I love my sisters. I loved her like that even back in high school, so when she up and left just after graduation, it broke my damn heart.”
“She and Tommy didn’t always live here?”
“Tommy did. Lana didn’t. She took off when she was eighteen without saying goodbye to any of us. Didn’t say shit. And you remember how I said Tommy and Chris had a rough childhood?”
My heart thumps painfully in my chest. Aching for a couple of boys I don’t even know. “Yeah.”