Until Trevor (Until, #2)(26)

“What, Jen?”

“I want to see you.”

“I told you before; we’re done.”

“I…I miss you.” This chick is completely whacked; my face tilts towards the ceiling, and I pray for patience.

“I'm only going to say this one more time: we were never anything, so stop f*cking calling me.” I hang up and see a text message from Liz.

Liz: Missed you last night.

My heart flips over; I feel like a chick standing here smiling at my phone.

Me: Miss you too baby.

I look around and see Cash watching me.

“What’s that smile for?” he asks, taking the girl’s coffee from my hand and handing it back to her. I look at him, and his smile matches mine. I look at the girl and see her blush when he hands her the coffee.

“Nothing. Liz messaged me,” I tell him, walking up to the cashier to order my coffee.

“This is Lilly. Lilly, this is one of my brothers, Trevor,” Cash introduces.

“Nice to meet you.”

“Hi,” she says shyly. “Um, I need to go; it was nice meeting you both. Again, I'm really sorry about the coffee…and the head-butt.”

I chuckle, and Cash laughs. “Its fine, honey. I’ll walk you out,” he tells her. I get my order, and order another coffee for Cash, before I head out of the coffee shop. When I step out, Cash and Lilly are talking quietly off to the side of the door. I go start the truck and wait for him. Once he’s back in the truck, I look over to see him watching as Lilly walks down the sidewalk. He pulls out his phone and types something. She stops, pulls out her phone, looks at it, turns and looks over her shoulder, and gives him a smile that could make the sun jealous, before she turns back around and starts walking again.

“So, you got her number?”

“Yeah, she goes to school over here.” He says pulling out a clean shirt from his bag.

“She seems shy,” I say, pulling out onto the road.

“Liz is shy.”

“No, Liz is observant.”

"Whatever. So how are things with you and Liz?" I glance at my baby brother, debating what I should say. "You’re still into her, right? If not, Johnny was asking about her." I look over, ready to let him know that I will f*ck Johnny up if he even thinks about talking to Liz, when I see the smirk on his face. "Well, judging by the shade of red you just turned, I'm gonna say you’re still with her."

"Yeah, and I'm staying with her; so tell anyone who asks to back the f*ck off."

"Calm down! Damn! I thought that with her basically living with you, and you two buying a damn dog together, that it would calm your possessive ass down. Guess I was wrong." I look over to see him shaking his head. "Don't get me wrong, I love November and Liz, but I'm never going to let a female turn me into some kind of crazy, possessive, *-whipped guy." I almost laugh and warn him of what's going to happen when he meets the one, but f*ck it; he can figure that shit out on his own, and I’ll be laughing about it from the sidelines.

"Any word from Liz’s brother?” he asks, changing the subject

"Nah, nothing. I called Kenton and asked him to look into it,” I reply.

"Do you know why Nico's spending so much time with him?"

"He likes the bigger city." I shrug.

"I thought that too, but he mentioned the other day that he might go work for Kenton."

"Seriously?" Thinking of the work that my cousin does makes me nervous for my brother. My cousin’s life is like something out of a movie. He’s constantly on the road, looking for the people who everyone else runs away from. "When was he going to tell us?" I ask.

All of us boys own even shares in our construction business. Asher started the business up when he got out of the Marines, and each of us bought in after college. Since then, the business has grown, and now we have contracts all over Tennessee.

“He told me that Kenton had asked him to help out on a job the other day. He said he had never thought about doing that kind of thing, but when he was done, he couldn’t stop thinking about it. I guess Kenton told him that he had a knack for it and would be willing to train him if he was interested in doing it for the long term,” he says.

“So he’s really considering it?”

“From what he said, yeah. I think he’s just worried about what we’ll all say.”

“I don’t like it; I know that what Kenton does is dangerous. But if he’s happy, then how can I say no?”

“That’s what I said.” Cash’s phone starts ringing. “Speak of the devil,” he mutters. “Yo,” he answers. “Are you serious?” Cash pauses, and I can tell he’s concentrating on whatever is being said; then he starts laughing so hard that tears start streaming down his cheeks.

“What?” I ask.

“Shit man, hold on. Let me tell him.” He shakes his head, trying to control himself. “Last night, Nico went to the restaurant over on 5th street. Well, when he pulled into the parking lot, it was after eleven, and Liz was standing next to her car covered in dirt, looking like she got caught with her hand in the cookie jar. Nico asked her what was going on, and she said she was just getting ready to go home.” My heart drops, thinking that something happened to her.