Page 72 of Tesio
“We’reyour fucking family, not them!” Micro hissed at me, and fuck me, if this had been any other moment, that would have been all I needed to hear. Did it warm me, right in my stone cold chest, to know that he saw me that way? Maybe, but it was irrelevant at this point, because I couldn’t survive this. All I could focus on was making sure my little pain did.
“You’re not throwing away your life for me!” Jamie snapped, fixing me with that sassy glare that had first fucking won me over.
“It’s exactly what you tried to do for some… was it a guy? Is that why you did it? You got some other fucking guy?”
Micro and Torch groaned, but I ignored them, because if she had some fella she was throwing herself on her sword for, then I was just the idiot who threw my life away for no reason.
“Yes, it was a man, and no, I’m not fucking doing him!”
“Jesus, maybe we should have brought earplugs, man.”
“Torch, shut the fuck up,” I snapped at him, before turning back to my woman.
“I just threw my entire fucking life away for you, little pain. Was it a mistake?”
Her glare grew fiercer, but I saw the wobble of her lip as she swallowed hard, seeming to contemplate her words before she spoke. Her eyes darted in the direction of the two cockblocking brothers I’d wanted until this very second.
“It was only a mistake because it means I could lose you, Gr… Grease…”
“If they start boning right here-”
“I’ll owe you twenty quid, I know,”Micro interrupted Torch, but my eyes were fixed firmly on my woman, who seemed to be breaking apart right in front of me. Tears pooled in those beautiful eyes, and I groaned, pulling her practically into my lap.
“I’m sorry, little pain. I fucked this up so fucking badly. I never expected to meet you, ya know? I thought I’d rough it with a bunch of dickheads for a few months, and then go back to that dull as fuck compound, and die a bit more every day.”
“I hated you, but you’re not so bad,” she whispered fiercely, burying her face in my neck.
“I think that’s cop talk for I love you,”Torch muttered, and I flipped him off. Why the fuck were they both hovering like this?
“Can you two fuck off?”
“That’s charming, mate. I thought we were brothers.”
“I know, what happened to bros before h-”he grunted as if he’d been elbowed, and he’s lucky that’s all he got.
“The fuck?”
Micro groaned. “Look, we can go, of course we can, but we haven’t sorted out what happens next, and don’t give me that shit about going to the Don. You dying for the sake of his pride serves no fucking purpose.”
“Yeah, exactly. Let Reacher try and smooth things over first,” Torch added, offering me a little smile as Jamie tried to bury herself even deeper into me, which was kinda the opposite of what I wanted right now, if you catch my drift.
“I need to speak to Rossi myself. I mean, I don’t think there’s a chance of this going my way, but I owe it to him. He practically fucking raised me.”
“Whoa, are you like, related to Tori and him, or something?”
“I think he was hinting at more like an uncle and nephew thing, but where the uncle does all the work, and then makes you his bitch.”
“Torch, fuck off!”
Jamie started giggling, and I found myself grinning, despite everything going to hell.
“Why don’t we find a room, baby? I wanna fuck you all night.”
“Told you we needed earplugs, fucker.”
Jamie
Grease dragged me upthe stairs in the little house, and into the first bedroom we came across, kicking the door closed behind him.
