Page 53 of Echoes From Within
Looking over at Travis I watch as he’s strutting around the kitchen looking so happy.
After the barbeque. I can give him that. Then I’ll get out of his way and let him continue on with his life.
Chapter Nineteen
Venom
“Hello?”
I smile as Sophia walks off to take her call.
“She’s something else, brother,” Ghost says.
“Yeah,” I agree. “She’s so much stronger than she realizes.”
We’ve just spent the past several hours hanging out at my parent’s house. Viper and Bitsy have finally returned home after spending way too fucking long with the Phantoms.
“Do you think she will try and harm herself again?” he asks me.
Clenching my jaw at the memory of her in that bathroom, it takes me a few seconds before answering.
“I honestly can’t say one way or another,” I admit. “The past week or so it’s almost as if she’s another person. From the moment I met her, she had this hopelessness in her eyes. But it’s not there so much these days.”
“She’s a fighter down to her bones,” he tells me.
“Hey guys,” Knox whispers as he ducks behind us. “Hide me.”
I’m about to ask why when I see Steel stomping his way over while Blaze follows laughing his ass off. Steel stops a few feet away and glares down at our feet, arms crossed.
“What’s going on?” I ask.
“He…He was…”
Blaze can’t seem to function properly as he wipes the laughing tears from his eyes.
“Little one,” Steel says. Although his face is saying, I’m going to fucking kill you, his voice is the complete opposite. Kind and soft. Like it always is when talking to Knox.
“I didn’t mean to, Sir,” Knox says from behind us. “I didn’t think it was going to be that big.”
“Come on, Little Knoxy,” Blaze says once he gains control of himself. “You aren’t in trouble. It was all fun and games.”
“Tell that to your evil twin,” he mumbles. “Sir,” he adds when Steel raises his brows.”
Sophia returns and assesses the situation before retaking her seat with a giggle.
“Are you in on what’s going on?” I ask her.
“It’s not my story to tell,” she smiles, shrugging her perfect little shoulder.
Sighing, Knox stands from behind us and stops several feet away from the twins before turning to us.
“Yesterday, I accidentally spilled juice on my pants when we were at the clubhouse,” he tells us, blushing. “Steel smirked and said that it looked like I needed to start wearing diapers. He knows I’m not that Little. Well…”
Blaze falls to his ass laughing before Knox can finish his tale.
“When the twins left for work last night,” Knox continues. “I may, or may not, have snuck over to their house and let myself in with the spare key I stole from the clubhouse.”
Knox lowers his head trying to hide his own laughter.