Page 63 of Between Brothers

Chapter 25

Duracell

“Spill, why are you really in such a good mood?” Blue demanded and I chuckled. Yeah, he knew me too well.

“Why do you care? That was some good fuckin’ and we sent her home happy.”

He narrowed his eyes looking me over and then his eyebrows shot up straight into his hairline.

“You’re fuckin’ high aren’t you?” he demanded.

I didn’t respond, just gave a half smile and put my hands behind my head, lying back in the bed. He’d walked Hayley out to her cage and had taken his sweet time getting back, while me? I’d had no desire to fuckin’ move. I was just layin’ here and feeling great.

“Maybe,” I conceded with a Cheshire grin.

“Where’d you get it and what is it?” he demanded.

“One of the hookers at Sugars. She had some coke and felt like sharing. What the fuck was I gonna do? Turn her down?” my grin widened at the look of angry disgust on Blue’s face. “Don’t be a bitch,” I told him.

He bowed his head and shook it, “I swear to Christ, you better have wrapped it up.”

“With the hooker? Fuck yes. I may be reckless but fuck that shit. Somethin’s gonna kill me, it’d better be quick.” I closed my eyes and relaxed, floating on cloud nine and sort of already coming down from the coke. The sex had been great and the mood I was in was pretty good, leave it to Blue to bring me fuckin’ down.

“I hate it when you talk like that,” he said and I opened one eye.

“Okay, Mom.”

He hung his head and shook it. “I just can’t with you sometimes,” he said with a defeated sigh and he went over to his dresser, going through drawers and pulling things out, stacking them up.

“Where the fuck you going?”

“To take a shower, but more importantly… Away from you.”

I barked a laugh at his sullen ‘little boy Blue’ routine and he shut the door on it. Fuck him anyways. I did what I wanted, he knew that and Hayley was learning it. I’d had a good fuckin’ day for all that I didn’t get to blow any shit up or put the hurt on anyone. Sure, I’d pissed the hooker off doing the coke off her tits and walking off like I had. She’d wanted the ‘D’ but I hadn’t given it to her. I’d been more interested in coming back here and getting my rocks off with the people I knew were clean.

Blue was right, it was kind of convenient having a bitch between us.

I hadn’t lied either. I had every intention of living fast and leaving behind an ugly corpse but I sure as fuck wasn’t going to go out because of some terminal fucking disease I got from a goddamned hooker. Life itself was terminal as it was. Only one disease at a time.

I got my ass up before he got out of the shower and threw on some clothes. I wasn’t interested in listening to his fucking bullshit when he was done cleaning up. I also wasn’t interested in sharing any space with him while he was being a moody prick, so instead, I took myself to the locker room showers down at the opposite end of the barracks.

I was jazzed, and felt like doing something still, so I figured I’d clean up and hit the bar for some darts. Let Blue fucking sulk, he’d come around later, he always did.

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