Page 55 of Waiting Game

“He was watching a cam girl on it, Colt.”

My cam girl,to be precise.

My older brother shrugs. “So?”

“So?! He’s paying women to strip off and fuck themselves with monster dildos.”

“You’ve probably got a chick in every state, but Callan, the kid behind a screen, is the one with the problem?”

“Two words, Colt. Monster. Dildos.”

“I thought you’d be offering to pay.” At my bewildered expression, Colt derides, “Weren’t you screwing half the cheerleaders in your grade at his age?”

“That’s different.”

“How is it? Callan’s awkward. He doesn’t find it easy to talk to girls.”

“He finds it easy to type to them,” I grumble as I toss the computer on his bed. Watching it bounce, realization strikes. “Wait a minute, you gave him the card?”

“No. I saw him take Pops’s though. I never said anything because Pops gave us cards at his age and it’s not like he missed it. Callan’s had it for nearly a year without the old bastard realizing it was lost.”

There are so many levels of fucked up in that sentence that I mutter, “He claims he’s in love with her. Wants to run away and stop her from having to sell her body to old perverts on the internet.”

Colt finally turns to face me. “He said that?”

“He did. You think I’d make it up?” I roll my eyes and snag the whiskey tumbler from his grasp. We fight over it but he concedes and lets me take a sip.

“Little shit.”

Colt’s always been too old for his own good.

He acts like he’s our dad and I can’t fault him for it. He took the beatings so we wouldn’t. He was the one who covered for us. He was the one we came to with problems…

“Is Callan doing okay?”

“He’s fine. Happier since he started sorting out the security in this place. You know what he’s like.”

“Obsessive?”

Colt snorts as I hand him the glass.

“I talk to him at least four times a week.”

“You’re a good brother,” Colt says with approval.

“I try.”

And the little asshole tries to get with my girl!

Not that she is my girl.

“That’s all we can do.” He takes a deeper sip of whiskey. “I’ll deal with him and this cam girl situation.”

“It didn’t occur to me that you wouldn’t.”

He grunts.

“Go easy on him, though. If he thinks he’s in love, it’ll be hard to stop him. I changed the password and email combo so he won’t be able to access that account.”

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