Chapter 4
“You look like crap,” he noted.
“Thanks.” A tingling swept from the back of my neck to my face. I drove two hands up to smooth down any wild wisps of hair. I didn’t know whether to chuckle or sob about Dane’s brutal honesty. Both he and Jake were blunter than I would have preferred. “It might be just from the humidity of the room,” I clarified. “There’s a lot of people here.”
Now was the perfect time to extract information. “If you two are kin, why don’t you get along better?”
Dane flinched back, then quickly regained his coolness. “Don’t you have disagreements in your family too?”
“No. And this is more like a hostile, long-standing war.”
“It hasn’t always been like this. When my family moved here, it was depressing being in a new place. And Jake, he had just launched his
