Page 62 of Risk

“How long have you two been seeing each other?” That’s Zeus.

I see Cam cover his hand with hers, stopping his fingers from tapping on the tabletop.

I glance at Kaden. “We haven’t. We weren’t. I mean, we aren’t. Together, I mean.”

“And yet you’re pregnant.” That’s Zeus again, and he’s sounding more and more pissed off as time goes on.

“It was one time. At Ares and Ari’s wedding,” I clarify.

The way Ares’s face screws up would probably be comical if I wasn’t ready to puke at any moment now.

“My wedding?” he exclaims.

“No. I mean, on the night.”

“That doesn’t fucking make this better, Artemis!” Ares exclaims.

Fuck. He’s either really mad or really disappointed in me. It’s the only time he ever uses my full name.

“How does it make it worse?” I edge out.

“I don’t know! It just does! My baby sister getting knocked up at my wedding is—”

“Night,” I reiterate. “It wasn’t like we got it on in the reception room. It was in my room at the hotel.”I really need to stop talking.

“That I paid for! And I don’t need to know the fucking details!” Ares all but yells.

“Take it easy, baby,” Ari says to him, putting her hand on his arm. Then, she looks at me and smiles. “Are you happy?” she asks me, and I couldn’t love her more in this moment.

I give her a real smile and say, “Yeah. I am.”

I feel Kaden’s hand press on my thigh beneath the table, and I glance at him.

“Correct me if I’m getting any of this wrong,” Zeus says, looking between Kaden and me, and he’s pissed, his finger back to tapping on the tabletop. “You’re not with my best friend. You had a one-night stand.” He looks sick, even saying those words, and I totally get it—no one wants to discuss their siblings doing it. “And now, you’re pregnant with twins, and you’re keeping them. Am I missing anything?”

“No…that’s about all.”

“This is fucked,” he huffs, pushing up from his seat, staring down at Kaden. “You’re my best friend. I treat you like my own fucking family! And you go behind my back and sleep with my baby sister?!”

“I know it looks bad, but—”

“Bad?!” Zeus cuts Kaden off. “That’s putting it mildly. It’s so fucking far from bad! I can’t believe you did this. I trusted youwith her. I fucking asked you years ago if you had a thing for her, and you said no! You lied to me, brother.” He jabs his finger into his own chest.

I’m still stuck on the fact that he asked Kaden years ago if he was into me. My head nearly snaps off my neck at that news.

Kaden stands, too, and moves around the table, in Zeus’s direction, but keeps some distance between them. “I know. I screwed up, man. I didn’t think it was worth telling you that I was into Missy because I was never going to do anything since I was older than her and she was your sister, Zeus.”

“And yet here we fucking are.” Zeus throws his arms up in the air.

“I think we all need to take a breath,” Lo says, standing from the table.

I don’t think Zeus and Kaden will get into it, but they definitely need to take a few minutes to cool down.

Zeus’s angry eyes turn to Lo. “You already knew about this?”

Lo nods. “I found out a week ago.”

Zeus and Ares both swing their eyes to me, and what looks a lot like betrayal is in both of their expressions. I need to tell Ari that Cam knew before she did, but I’ll save that for another day. Right now, I can’t handle her looking at me the way these two are looking at me.

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