Dose of Reality

As I sat drinking my coffee the thought occurred to me that if Lucas had called off his hit on Cody once, he wouldn’t be lying when he said that he would do it again. If I could get Cody to stand down maybe I could get the two of them to come to some type of agreement. I didn’t know how Lucas would feel about me reaching out to Cody. Actually, I knew exactly how he would feel. But he had technically told me to stay away from him, he didn’t say anything about me talking to him.

As I hit my brother's name on my phone I knew without a doubt that Lucas would be pissed if he knew what I was doing. I had to try though, maybe I could help fix this mess. As the phone began ringing I began to second guess my decision. Cody was hot headed and he was just as stubborn as Lucas. After two rings I was ready to hand up but I heard the click of him picking up and my stomach fell.

“Are you in trouble?” Cody’s voice came through sharply, “or did you just want to tell me you were back fuck