Filed To Story: The Perfect Spiral Book PDF Free by Ashley Constantine
“Hello, doll. Look at you, all grown up. I bet your dad is loving it.” I said sarcastically, catching Cole’s glare as she rolled her eyes.
My brother Cole and Sasha had Lena when they were nineteen in college. They were young, but we all knew they were destined to be together.
Next were the two little rascals, Noah and Eden, who are four and three. I picked them up into my arms-thankfully, they were lighter -and smothered them with kisses too.
“Hello, my two little rugrats! You’re both getting so big.” I said, setting them down. I pointed over to Andy, who was still gawking at Knox. “This is my friend Andy, say hi to her. Noah, is Andy your girlfriend?” They all said hi and waved at her. Noah ran over to her, gave her a hug and a kiss, and then ran back to hide behind me.
Such a charmer, I know. While Eden ran over to Knox and he picked her up with ease.
“Hello, my Princess, what have you got there? Is this for me?” he asked, taking a piece of paper from her that looked like a drawing of some sort.
“Is that me?” I watched her nod, “Am I playing football?” she nodded again. “Can I have a kiss to make your aunt jealous?” she shook her head no, and I laughed so hard.
“I’ve taught her well. Tell me, Knox, how does it feel to be rejected by a three-year-old?” He scowled at me when Eden reached out for me to grab her, which I did while brushing off Knox.
While in my arms, she turned back to him and blew him a kiss, saying, “I love you, Knox.” “Uh, traitor,” I told her, and she gave me her cute confused look.
“Now if you could just teach your Aunt Alex to say that to me, that would be splendid, Princess.”
“That’ll never happen,” I vowed.
My brother Kyle butted in, “Those words will never come out of her mouth in your direction, buddy.”
“We’ll see,” he winked, taking a gulp of water.
Andy pulled me aside. “Your brothers are fucking hot! Lord help me!” she exclaimed, tilting her head back dramatically.
“You ladies talking about me?” Knox called out.
“You wish,” I shot back.
Noah came running over to Andy to ask her to open his juice box, and she did. Kyle couldn’t stop staring at her the whole time.
My mom, having heard the commotion, was finally up. She gave me a hug and said, “It’s so good to have you home, Alex.”
“It’s good to have Andy here too. Finally, we can put a face to the name we’ve heard so much about,” my mom added. Andy beamed and thanked her for the invitation.
“Yeah, but, not that we don’t prefer having you here, Andy, but where’s Drew, sis?” Kyle asked, and I froze. All eyes were on me.
I cleared my throat, gulped down my food, and took a drink because my throat suddenly felt like the Sahara Desert. Looking back up at my mom, I met her sympathetic eyes, silently pleading that I just tell them. I took a deep breath and blurted it out.
“I… I broke up with him.” Everyone stopped what they were doing to look at me as if they’d misheard. They hadn’t.
“Thank God,” Kyle exclaimed.
“Kyle!” my mom scolded him. I was looking down at my food, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw Knox tense. Andy placed her hand on top of mine.
Kyle noticed this. “What happened?” he asked. I looked over at Andy, and she nodded supportively at me. Now is the time to tell them, Alex. Oh God, don’t get angry, don’t get angry!
Knox rested his knee against mine, and I felt the heat coming from it. It was oddly comforting, like his way of telling me it was alright.
I closed my eyes and blurted out, “I caught him cheating on me… With another girl… in his bed.”
The screech of a chair at the table allowed me to open my eyes because I knew people weren’t looking at me anymore.
Cole? He looked so red. God help Drew if he ever sees him again. Leaning on the table with his fisted hands, he looked down at the plate that was positioned in front of him.
Exhaling a long, frustrated sigh, Cole gritted out, “I’m going to fucking kill him!” through clenched teeth.
I’d expected Kyle to be the one spewing expletives and looking like a volcano on the brink of eruption, not Cole.
Cole rose from his seat, pacing the floor before finally striding over to me. He placed his hands on my shoulders, bending down until his lips rested on the crown of my head. “He’s a dead man walking, sis,” he murmured, his tone quiet but deadly serious. He kissed my head and shot the boys a knowing look, one I recognized all too well.
“No, Cole! Don’t you dare do anything! Don’t ANY of you do anything to him! Do you hear me?!” I pointed at Cole, then at the rest of them.
“Nobody hurts our little sister, nobody! Stop defending him, Alex!” Kyle retorted.
I shot Kyle a glare as we both rose to our feet. “I’m not defending him, Kyle. Dammit, I just don’t want unnecessary drama. I don’t want everyone knowing that my brothers and their friends beat the crap out of my ex-boyfriend! I want someone to like me and not feel threatened because of what they heard about what happened to the last guy.! Do you hear me?” I choked on the last words, realizing I hadn’t taken a breath in a while.
“I will hurt him so badly in his pretty-boy face,” Kyle grumbled.
I rolled my eyes and said, “Too late for that!” louder than I’d intended.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Kyle asked, his tone sharp. “I slapped him,” I confessed, my mother’s gasp from across the table making me jump.
“You what?!” Her tone was angry, and I knew this wasn’t going to end well for me.
“Relax, Mom, that’s nothing compared to what we’re going to do to him,” Kyle interjected.
Then, like word vomit, the rest of the truth spilled out. “I punched him in the nose too,” I admitted.
I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. It was faint and distant, but it was there. I was ready to head towards it, ready to say goodbye to the world. I could already see the headlines: Mother Throws Kitchen Sink at Daughter, Crushes Her to Death for Slapping
Ex. What a way to go.
“You what!?!?” Kyle echoed my mother’s words, his voice ringing out in the silence. I should’ve kept my mouth shut.
Laughter erupted from every corner of the room, except from Andy and my mom. Especially my mom. I was a dead woman.
“Atta girl” Cole boasted proudly.
“Sis. I’m more proud of you right now than when you got your scholarship to UCLA!” Kyle lunged at me, pulling me into one of his infamous bear hugs. Cole joined in, then so did everyone else, turning it into a group hug.
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