Page 46 of Sweet Sin

I yank him up by his hair, forcing him to look at me. “You just wanted to get fucking high. It’s a damned good thing Mom and Dad cut you off.”

Then I rethink those words that just came out of my mouth. If Mom and Dad hadn’t cut him off, he wouldn’t be in this dilemma.

But I can’t think that way.

We grew up on a ranch, working hard. Sure, Mom and Dad have a drink every now and then. So do I. But no one ever touches the hard stuff. That was drilled into our heads from day one.

Seems my youngest brother was the only one who didn’t get it.

Still… The thought of him being in danger gets my protective instincts boiling.

“I fucked up, Fal. I don’t know what else to say.”

I sit down next to him on my bed. “Settle down. How much were those drugs worth?”

“How the hell should I know?”

“Can you find out?”

“I don’t know. They’ve given me forty-eight hours to produce the product.”

For a moment, I think about bagging up some powdered sugar, but this isn’t a damned cartoon.

This is real life.

“Will they take cash instead?”

“I don’t know.”

“You need to find out. And you need to find out how much.”

“You’d give it to me?”

“Yeah, I’ll give it to you. I’ll charge you twenty-five percent interest, and the day you turn twenty-one, you’ll pay me back.”

His jaw drops. “Twenty-five percent? That’s extortion.”

“Talk to Robin and Raven then. Maybe one of them will give you a better deal. Hawk doesn’t have access to his yet.”

He closes his mouth.

“Yeah, I thought you wouldn’t have an argument. You expect to get out of this scot-free? Hell no. You did something really stupid, Eagle. It was bad enough to get involved with drugs. Then to start selling them?”

“That part wasn’t my fault, I—”

I let out a loud scoff. “You really want to go there? Not your fault? Do you hear yourself? Mom and Dad were right to cut you off.”

“No.” He shakes his head and stands.. “That’s not what I mean.”

“Then what the fuck do you mean?”

“It’s not my fault that Vega found out who I was, that I had land on the border.”

“Last I checked, this isn’t your land. It’s Mom and Dad’s.”

“For fuck’s sake, Falcon, you know what I mean.”

“You watch your tone.”

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