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“I can’t get a read on them and, as much as it pains me to say this, I guess you and Garrett need to put more work into it too. I don’t like not having a hand in it much.”

“Get over it,” he said. “We know what we are doing.”

“And that is why you’re feeling so guilty about what you said to Jonah last night, right? Because you’ve got such a good handle on it?”

He sighed. “Hey, Garrett and I are a work in progress.”

She leaned over and kissed him. “You are. My work in progress.”

39

Working On It

“How pissed is Jonah still?” Raina asked her on Tuesday morning when she got into work. Megan arrived earlier than normal since she still wasn’t sleeping well.

She’d left Jonah’s on Sunday morning after their fight; they didn’t talk that day and not much yesterday either. She didn’t want to be childish and she was the one who left so she reached out yesterday to see if he was still mad and he just replied back he was working on it.

That almost pissed her off more. That he couldn’t even talk to her about it all. He was doubting her and yet leaving her in the dark to work herself up.

“I don’t know,” she said. “I was the idiot that walked out on him on Sunday. You know that.”

She’d told Raina everything yesterday when her best friend checked in to see how things were going. Raina had seen Jonah’s face and she knew her brother well enough to know it wasn’t going to go over well.

They hadn’t done much more than text though knowing they could talk today.

“He needs time,” Raina said. “If you stayed you’d still be fighting. That is Jonah. He’s not much of a hot head, but he has to get his mind around things.”

“As I’m learning,” she said. “I’m not used to this. Having to sit on things. I’d rather talk them out now.”

“You two are going to have to figure it out. It’s a bad family trait we have. I did the same thing with Cody and he’s more like you.”

“I shouldn’t have left,” she said. “I just couldn’t believe he was making that big of a deal out of it. Not so much the fact that they gave me advice. It’s that he doubted my love for him. Like it couldn’t or wouldn’t be real if the Fierces didn’t push me a little faster than I would have done on my own. Can you believe that?”

Raina looked a little uncomfortable. As if she knew something that she couldn’t share and she didn’t like that feeling. This was where the friendship with Raina and her personal relationship with Jonah could get tricky. “I’m not sure what goes on in my brother’s head,” she said. “He isn’t one to always open up either.”

“I’ll have to get through to him. I was going to go work out after work today, but it’s not the place for us to talk either.”

“No, but if he sees you there he might think things are okay.”

She shrugged. “I don’t know. I’m not going to be passive aggressive and pretend this didn’t happen and hope he thinks that. We need to talk it out like you said. I will. Thanks. I appreciate you listening to me.”

“Anytime,” Raina said. “You know that.”

“Yes. If I put you in an awkward spot, I’m sorry.”

“You didn’t. You couldn’t.”

“But your loyalty is for your brother,” she said. “I get that.”

“It’s for both of you. I want you both happy.”

Raina left and she got to work.

She didn’t stay that way long though when Raina returned over an hour later. “Jonah was just in a car accident. He’s on his way to the hospital.”

“What?” she asked, standing up. “How do you know?”

“My mother just called me. She’s his emergency contact. I don’t know anything other than they took him via ambulance and it wasn’t Jonah that called but the officer on site of the accident.”