Chapter 18

Emmett was on the other side of the wall. I could picture his lean, and probably a frown on his face. It didn’t help we didn’t have a door to the bathroom. It would have to be cut to fit the pitch of the roof and shorter than a normal door, so nothing was added. Emmett and I gave each other privacy but there was only so much you could do in the tiny space.

Taking a deep breath, I let the water beat down on my face. “While I appreciate the thought, you couldn’t take them.”

“Maybe. But if Raine saw me in trouble, she would take them.”

This made me bark out a laugh. “You’d put yourself in a compromising position, just so Raine would kill everyone to save your ass?”

I could almost hear his shrug. “It’s worked before.”

A small smile graced my face. He wasn’t wrong. When we were little he used it as an advantage. Before the anxiety and inability to handle people, I’d done more shit talking for him than he ever did now. After the fire, that all chang