Read Online Porpoiseful Intent [Placida Pod 2] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic ManLove) by Tymber Dalton - Free Book Online

is wrong with you people?” Sean grumbled as he poured himself a cup of coffee and went to join them. “Do you not need sleep?”
    “Sleep is for the dead, son,” Sam said. “Time for you to learn that.”
    “Leave him alone, Sam,” his mom said with a smile. “You know he’s not an early bird. There’s no sin in that.” She leaned over and kissed his cheek when he sat down. “He’s a hard worker and does very well for himself without you harassing him.”
    Sean spotted Louise trying to hide her amused smile behind her coffee cup.
    Eventually, the entire household stirred. Reese and Laura volunteered to cook breakfast. Emery was in the bathroom when this happened, so he missed what Sean witnessed as Denby eagerly jumped to help while everyone else took up positions in the living room to watch the large TV there.
    By lunchtime, the weather had deteriorated outside. The outer rain bands were already hitting them in Sarasota. Violent gusts of wind battered palm trees in the Nadels’ backyard. When Jim Cantore began his live broadcast from the public beach at the south end of Manasota Key, Sean silently wondered if his parents would have a house to return to.
    Or if he and Emery would, for that matter.
    Emery and Sean were sitting in the kitchen at the breakfast table later that afternoon when Sean tried to take his mind off the storm by ribbing Emery. “I guess you were right.”
    “Huh? About what?”
    “Denby. I don’t have any reason to be jealous of him.”
    A confused smile quirked Emery’s lips. “Of course you don’t, babe. But you’re bringing that up…why?”
    “Well, I just think it’s funny, that’s all.”
    “What’s funny? I’m not tracking.”
    “That maybe Denby will end up being part of the family anyway.”
    Emery blinked. “Say again?”
    “Oh, the way he’s been cozying up to Laura. Looks like maybe she has the hots for—”
    He couldn’t finish, because almost faster than he could follow the movement, Emery shot out of his chair and bolted into the living room. Before Sean could even get through the doorway, Emery had grabbed Denby by the front of his shirt and was bodily dragging him into the den.
    Sean managed to scoot through the door and into the den before Emery slammed it shut, locked it behind him, and rounded on Denby.
    “Dude, you stay the fuck away from my sister!”
    Denby looked shocked. “What?”
    Outside, Laura beat on the door. “Emery! You let me in right this minute!”
    Emery ignored his sister outside the door. He advanced on Denby, who cowered away from him toward the other side of the den. He jabbed a finger in Denby’s face. “You stay. The fuck. Away. From Laura. Understand me?”
    “What the hell is your problem, man?” Denby said, his hands in front of him warding Emery back.
    Emery shoved him, hard. Sean tried to pull Emery back, but the larger man simply shrugged him off. He lowered his voice. “You know what the hell my problem is. You’re not going to turn my sister into a fucking beard for you and ruin her life.”
    “Fuck off, asshole.”
    Laura was now joined by Emery’s mom and dad on the other side of the door, beating on it and yelling for Emery to unlock and open it.
    Emery got in Denby’s face. “No, I’m not going to fuck off. You want to sucker some poor woman into a sham, fine, but it’s not going to be my little sister!”
    “Oh, now I see what your problem is,” Denby said with a sneer. “You’re jealous.”
    Emery shoved him again and sent him tumbling backward over the sleeper sofa.
    That finally spurred Sean to action. He raced over to the door and unlocked it, throwing it open. Laura, Joseph, and Brad spilled in, followed by Louise and Reese. Laura immediately tried to put herself between the two men, but Louise and Sean pulled her back while Brad and Joseph tried to get between the men and pull them apart.
    “Emery,” Laura shouted. “Leave him alone!”
    “Stay out of this, Laura. It doesn’t concern