Chapter 41

Shane

"Because I'm the oldest, I should always be entitled to get the last one."

"That's a bunch of bullshit if I've ever heard any."

"Look you little shit, mom made these cookies because Candy told her she had been wanting some. My woman, my cookies."

I roll my eyes as Austin and Max go back and forth for the hundredth time about these goddamn cookies. Normally I would simply walk in, grab the last one they always fight about, and end that shit right then and there causing an uproar between the two brothers, but tonight I have no strength. Since the moment Lyla broke me in half last night, I have been walking around with a stick up my ass. I decided to come with Max and Austin to visit their mother Julia. Partly, to get out, and partly because I could never say no to seeing Julia. She was there for me when the cruelty of my father's life ending was too much to bear and my mother was too busy latching onto whoever gave her attention.

Julia is a strong woman, someone I have always felt