Hades
“You could have just come inside instead of calling me, you know,” I said into the phone, eyes on the glass window of the mall.
On the other line, Alec’s dry voice replied, “And meet your crazy cousin? Yeah, I’m good right where I am.”
I chuckled under my breath. Right. He’d never gotten along with Sierra. When we were kids, she’d followed him around like a shadow, demanding he be her man one day and her servant the next. Alec wanted nothing to do with her, but Sierra was relentless, she didn’t care how many times she got shoved away.
She was still the same, even now. Out of all my family, she was one of the few I tolerated. She wasn’t fake, and she wouldn’t leave no matter how much I tried to push her off. At least she was consistent.
“What is it?” I asked, cutting the nostalgi
