Read Online A Perfect Mess by Zoe Dawson - Free Book Online

suspects. Did you tell anyone?”
    The knock at the door made her jump, and I reached out and steadied her. Damn, her skin was soft. When I opened the door, it was like looking into a mirror twice over. But I’m used to it.
    I glared at Boone.
    “Hey, I had to pick up Brax. No need to give me a death stare there, huckleberry.”
    Aubree came up next to me. She smiled at my brothers. “Thank you for coming. It wasn’t necessary.” She said through her teeth and elbowed me. I grunted and she gave me a death stare. It was pretty good, but I wasn’t intimidated. I love that green fire. I just felt like someone had ripped my heart out of my chest.
    Boone? Seriously?
    He grinned at her and sidled into the house, Brax on his tail. Brax clapped me on the shoulder and grinned, too. Then nudged me. I nudged him back. “Way to go, bro,” he murmured.
    I gave him a disgusted look and he just laughed. “Check out the area. Some perv is texting Aubree.”
    Both my brothers stiffened and their eyes narrowed. “Seriously?” Boone asked. “Let’s go, Brax. Don’t worry, Aubree, we’ve got our ass-kicking boots on, right Brax?” He grinned an unholy grin, his eyes shining liked polished sapphires in the light.
    Brax nodded.
    “Ahhhh…thanks, Boone,” she said tentatively, looking from Brax to Boone and back again. “Did I get that right?”
    He laughed, the bastard, “Yeah, that’s right.”
    When she smiled at him, my jaw tightened and my fists clenched. They went out the back way, and I locked the door behind them.
    “Holy cow, that’s a lot of testosterone in one room. You guys are…wow.”
    “Maybe you’d prefer Boone stayed with you.” Man, could my voice sound any sulkier.
    She frowned. “What? No. Why would you…” She eyed me, then she looked down at her phone, then back at me. “Oh, the text message. Hey, are you jealous?”
    “No,” I snapped.
    “Oh, okay. Boone and Braxton look so much like you it’s a bit daunting. Although Boone looks like he works out. Does he?”
    “Yeah, we’re interchangeable, and yeah, the muscle goes all the way to his head.” My sarcasm was thick. I’d perfected it as a teenager.
    “You are adorable when you’re jealous. Here.” She thrust the phone at me. “The whole conversation. So you can quit worrying your pretty lil’ ol’ head about it.”
    I had been so into my possessiveness, I’d missed that she was teasing me. I didn’t want to take her phone, but I snatched it when she went to pull it away with a shrug. After reading, I said, “Oh.”
    “Yeah, oh. I was going to call you.”
    I looked down into her face, reading vulnerability in her wide green eyes, and it tugged at my heart. So fiery, so sure of herself in other ways, but when it came to me…
    “You were?” I smiled what felt like a loopy grin. I was such a besotted idiot.
    “Yeah. Why did you show up here, anyway?” She set her hands on her hips.
    “I have some fun planned for you. Let’s go.” I grabbed her hand and dragged her toward the hall.
    She tried in vain to tug her hand away and scowled at me in disapproval, looking toward the backyard. “Your brothers are still out there.”
    I gave them a dismissing wave. “They can handle anything. Don’t worry about them.”
    “Not even about Boone?”
    I stopped and met her snapping green eyes. “Now you’re pushing it, Aubree.”
    She rubbed her temple as if she was trying to push pass the confusion I’d created. “You really don’t think this is an issue, do you?”
    “No. First we’ll go by and check on your aunt, and then it’s fun time. It’s probably Langston that texted. Just ignore him. Like I said, if he gets a rise out of us, he’ll know something is up.”
    “Nothing fazes you.”
    Not true. You do.
    “Come on, sugar. You can’t statistic yourself to death. There’s more to life than math. And even math would tell you that the reason they made the universe is for you to get out and enjoy it.”
    “That’s so