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Aunt Connie. There’s not a fucking thing they can do to help me, and you took the only woman I’ve ever loved away from me to hide your own selfish secret. I don’t care who you fuck, and neither did Hallie. I never want to speak to you again. I never want to see your face again. I only have a handful of days left and I’m not wasting a single second more with you. Goodbye Aunt Connie.” He turns and holds out his elbow for me. It looks gallant, but that’s not why he does it. It’s because his strength has been sucked from his body. The confrontation stole it, funneling it away from him swiftly.
    For once his aunt is silent. The door closes behind us and Bryan doesn’t look back.

Chapter 6
    When Bryan returns to his room, he downs a few pills and does a couple of shots. His stomach is empty so it hits him hard. I take off my clothes and press my body to his. I want to hold him for a while. As he wraps his arms around me, pulling me close to his body, I can tell that he’s dropped a few pounds this week. Just after Bryan settles back into the bed, Sean bursts in.
    Bryan is wearing a pair of jeans and only jeans. I’m not wearing anything, so I pull the sheet up, ready to beat Sean to a pulp if he picks a fight now. “You.” he says, lifting his hand and pointing a finger at Bryan.
    Bryan just laughs and ignores him. “Get out, you crazy fucker.”
    Sean works his jaw while folding his arms over his chest. “How do you know Victor Campone?”
    Bryan’s smile fades. “What’s it to you? Besides, he’s dead.” He glances at me and I give Sean a look that says shut up, but he doesn’t.
    “What the fuck is this? It’s not even nine in the morning and you’re already high? Who gave you this shit?” Sean is holding a bottle of pills.
    Bryan gets up to fight, but I jump in front of him, clutching the sheet around me. “They’re mine. Give them back.”
    Sean glares at me. “Yeah, why are you popping these? Life too hard, Princess?”
    “Fuck off, Sean.” Bryan has a warning tone that says to drop it and get out.
    “You two are going to end up dead! You’re the dumbest couple of assholes I’ve ever met.” Sean takes the bottle and starts to dump them down the drain. I scream no, and launch myself at him knocking the other half of the bottle onto the floor. White pills go flying everywhere.
    “You don’t know everything!” I scream in his face. “So back off! Those weren’t from Victor. I’m not stupid and neither is Bryan.” I glare at Sean. Bryan doesn’t know about Victor and this idiot is spelling out the kind of trouble I’m in. Take a hint and shut the hell up!
    Bryan’s gaze is burning holes into Sean’s chest. “Get out.” His voice is low and deadly.
    Sean hisses, “Bryan, I swear to God, if you pull Jon down with you—”
    “He won’t.” Constance’s voice is calm and even. She’s standing in the threshold and pushes her way into the room. She glances at her nephew and tells her son, “Come along. We have things to discuss.”
    Sean’s wide sapphire eyes flick from me to Constance and back. “What the fuck?”
    Constance seems somber. She snaps her fingers and points to the floor next to her. “Come, now. It’s not an option.”
    Sean, irritated beyond words, growls, shoves past his mother and is gone without another word. That’s when she looks over at Bryan. “A team of specialists will come by later today. They’ve been paid to keep their silence.”
    “It’s unnecessary.” Bryan replies and sits down hard on the edge of his bed.
    “Perhaps, but let them look, just in case something was missed. Don’t give up hope until you breathe your last breath. Do you understand?” She looks down at him, and has her typical matriarch demeanor, but it’s stern, yet soft. When Bryan doesn’t answer she adds, “Cancer runs rampant in our family. This team of doctors are the best in the world. If you don’t want to humor me, at least let them look you over for