It was impossible.
One amazing kiss couldn’t do that, could it?
Either way, the Dirty Fuckers MC were tense at the moment. Dane hadn’t left, and he had stuck around the clubhouse.
Skylar had noticed that her sister, within a few days, had become withdrawn from her. Smiling at the right points, but never really being there. Whenever she tried to get her alone, Teri would always find some reason to be elsewhere. Skylar didn’t like it. The way her sister was behaving reminded her of when Teri left their family home and didn’t return. She had spent hours watching the street, waiting for her sister to turn up. It never happened.
The last thing she wanted was to lose her big sister after they had been apart for some time.
Finally, on a Wednesday, Teri had decided to close the diner early. She was in the kitchen as Skylar came home from a morning shift at the library. No one was around as Leo and Paul had to go off on some kind of errand that they couldn’t tell her about. Club business, and she didn’t ask what that was.
“Hey, you,” she said, entering the kitchen.
“Hi. I thought it would be nice to do some experimenting. You know. I’ve been working on a few things at the diner, but I don’t feel like being there right now.”
Teri seemed skittish, not herself.
Moving toward her, Skylar took her sister’s hands and forced her to look at her.
“What’s going on?”
“Why should something be wrong?”
“Do you remember when you were twenty-one? You made me dinner. Mom was out of the house. You had that fake smile on your face, and you’d made me chicken parm. We sat, and you got me to talk about school, and you’d tell me how amazing it would be for me when I got older.” As she spoke, she watched as Teri started to crumble. Her big sister, her rock, finally broke down.
“I’m a horrible person, Skylar. The worst person imaginable.”
“I find that really hard to believe.” She pushed Teri’s hair off her face.
“I am. You’ll hate me if you know the truth.”
Taking her sister’s hand, Skylar made their way out toward the garden, where she had found herself sitting and thinking a lot over the past few days. She took some tissues from her pocket, and handed them to Teri. “How can you think for a second that you’re a horrible person?”
“Because I am. I’m the worst kind of woman, Skylar. You’re going to hate me when I tell you.”
Skylar’s heart was aching for her sister. She saw the distress on Teri’s face. “Tell me.”
“I slept with a married man.” Teri broke down sobbing.
She was a little shocked. Her sister hated women who helped men cheat. Teri covered her face with her hands and sobbed.
There had to have been a reason, and she moved closer, rubbing her sister’s back, trying to give her as much support as she could.
“I’m a horrible person. You should just kill me now. I hate people like me.”
“I really don’t know what happened. But I don’t think it’s as simple as you sleeping with a married man. Did you know he was married?”
“No, I didn’t. Not the first time,” Teri said, and that started her crying again.
Skylar was surprised. “First time? There was more than once?”
“Yes.”
Biting her lip, she continued to rub her sister’s back, waiting. She watched the garden around her, waiting for Teri.
“I’m sorry,” Teri said.
“I think you should explain your … predicament.”