Kiss the Sky (Calloway Sisters, #1)

by Krista Ritchie

“I’m seriously going to kick his fucking ass,” Ryke says to us. “I’m standing right here, man,” Julian retorts. “What’s your deal?” “You’re twenty-three,” Ryke snaps, “and you’re fucking a girl who’s seventeen.” “We’re not fucking. And aren’t you the one on Princesses of Philly who’s always around Daisy?” His eyebrows rise in accusation. “Maybe you’re the one fucking her. Or maybe you’re just jealous. Yeah, that’s probably it.” Before Ryke has the chance to lunge, Lo steps in front of his body, blocking him from Daisy’s boyfriend. “Julius,” Lo says, purposefully using his name wrong now that he knows it irritates him, “maybe you’re feeling a little goddamn disgusting being with a seventeen-year-old. Keep your shitty feelings to yourself. Don’t project them onto my brother.” “I’m not projecting anything. Have you see the way he looks at her? He wishes he was me right now.” Lo would normally have a snide retort ready, but he’s busy restraining Ryke who tries to charge forward, probably to sock Julian in the face. Lo rests his arm against his brother’s chest, forcing him back. Ryke stares disgustedly at Daisy’s boyfriend, and the guy just leisurely sips his beer. But I sense an antagonizing quality in Julian’s fixed stance, in the way he watches Ryke with a hawkeyed gaze. He’s the type of guy who’d love to fight him—just to prove he’s the bigger fucking man. Ryke, on the other hand, just wants to protect that girl inside. It’s an interesting dynamic.

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