Page 81 of Perfect Bragg

“Try again.”

“I don’t know what you mean. Harmony and I are friends who are helping each other out of a difficult situation.”

“And you needed to have sex with her to help her out of this difficult situation?” Peace asks.

I scowl at him. “How do you know we’ve had sex?”

“Winter Falls, remember? Your mom told my mom.”

“I don’t know if Mom being friends with Clementine is a good idea.”

“I want to know why Mom knows you had sex,” Riley says. “Do you call her and chat about it afterwards?”

Brody clutches his chest. “Ah, Elder needs his mommy.”

I clasp his shoulder. “Brody needs a new place to live.”

“Can we cut the shit now?” Miller asks.

I don’t want to cut the shit. I’m happy to avoid the subject all night long. Discussing my non-relationship with Harmony is the last thing I want to do. Maybe I can cut them off at the pass.

“Harmony doesn’t want more than a friends with benefits arrangement and I’m fine with that.”

Miller scowls and I wag my finger at him.

“Not everyone wants a wife and two point five kids.”

“One point five kids to go,” Brody says.

I shake my head. “No. There will be no more kids. Harmony doesn’t want more.”

“Harmony didn’t want to be more than ‘just’ friends with you either. Yet you convinced her to have sex with you twice,” Miller says.

“Twice? How do you know how many times I’ve had sex?”

He rolls his eyes. “You’re my twin. I know your ‘I had sex last night’-look.”

“Harmony obviously wants you if she’s having sex with you. What’s stopping you from making her yours?” Peace asks.

“Did you forget the part about me not wanting two point five children?”

He shrugs. “Times change. She has a kid now. What’s the big deal?”

I rear back. “What’s the big deal? The big deal is I can’t ever be a father.”

Peace bursts into laughter. “Why are you laughing?” I scan the room and all of my brothers are laughing. “What’s going on? What’s the joke? What did I miss?”

Miller points at me. “You thinking you can never be a father when you already are one.”

“I am not. I always glove up. I don’t have any surprise babies out in the world.”

“But you do have Robin,” Riley says.

“No. Robin’s not my kid.”

“You could have fooled me,” he says.

“Me too.”

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