Ten (My Brothers Best Friend) by Ker Dukey Read Free Book Online Page B

you’ll always be Jonah’s baby sister, and no matter how hard you pine for Dalton to see you as a woman, he will always only see that.”
    My eyes misted over at her words. I looked around her to see Dalton and Jonah cracking up over a shared joke. I knew it wasn’t true; she didn’t know what he and I had, and what we already shared, but the fear from always wondering if we could ever be out in the open tore from the confines I’d buried it in and placed doubt in my mind.
    “You don’t know what you’re talking about,” I snapped, and turned away to try and mask the truth that she’d got to me.
    “You know he called me your name once.” I stopped moving and tried not to wince from the pain of thinking of him being with her. “At first I was mad but then I found it kinda kinky. I let him pretend I’m you when he comes to me for his fix.”
    She’s lying.
    “What he doesn’t know is I stay in character even when I’m fucking his best friend. I like the taboo feel of it.”
    I whipped around and splashed water in her face, making her screech like a wild pig being butchered. “You’re disgusting, and a lying skank.”
    “You’re a little bitch!” she shouted.
    Before she could do anything else, Jonah and Dalton appeared next to us and the whole crowd watched wide-eyed at our little outburst.
    “What the fuck did you do?” Jonah growls in her face and her shoulders tense as she flinches from his aggressive stance.
    “Nothing. She couldn’t take a joke.”
    I want to tell him what she said but I can’t without mentioning the Dalton part.
    “Are you okay?” Dalton asks, but I can’t look at him right now.
    “I’m fine, she just sucks at joke telling,” I spat as I walked past them all to exit the water.
    The day I’d been looking forward to was nowhere in sight. Instead I just wanted to go home.
    Jonah followed me out and put a towel around my shoulders. “What did she say to you?”
    “Have you slept with her?” I asked, and it came out as an accusation.
    His eyebrows drew together and he shrugged. “Probably. I sleep with a lot of girls, Alex.”
    Probably? Seriously?
    “You don’t know if you’ve slept with her? What the hell, Jonah? Do you even care that the women you put your dick inside are actual people with feelings? You should at least acknowledge the fact you’ve slept with them if you have.”
    I didn’t know why I was all of a sudden defending Lisa. Well, it wasn’t actually her I cared about, but girls like Lacy who really liked him and gave herself to him willingly, hoping it would mean something to him. He couldn’t even remember them from one to the next.
    “What the hell, Alex? I’m stoned half the time and so are they. They shouldn’t put out to anyone if they want more from a guy. You’re the only girl I’ll ever care about. Why do you care, anyway? Has someone touched you like that?”
    All of a sudden his whole posture stiffened and his pupils expanded. I rested my hands on his shoulders to calm him down and quickly unruffle the feathers I’d riled up.
    “No, of course not. I just don’t like Lisa and I know that she was with Dalton for a while so it’s creepy that you share.”
    He shrugged and smiled down at me. “Dalton doesn’t care about her or who else is fucking her, he just takes her up on an easy lay when the mood strikes.”
    My insides curdled and I was screaming inside while trying to keep myself from bursting out into a full on sob. “Like, still? I didn’t think he was still doing that with her,” I managed to say, while swallowing the growing lump in my throat.
    “Sometimes it’s just easier to give the chicks what they want so they leave us alone for a bit.” He looked over his shoulder at them still in the water in a heated talk. “He’s probably knuckle deep in her right now to calm her down.”
    Bile rose up my throat, burning a path into my mouth.
    “I don’t feel good,” I whimpered, rushing to find somewhere to compose