Xavier FINAL(54)

     The top of the list said IRISH and sketched around it was some symbol that looked awfully familiar.

     I looked at it for an hour trying to figure it out and I couldn’t. So I gave up.

     I decided that it had been three days since I had spoke to my mother and I should call her.

     We talked until ten at night. I told her some of what had happened with Daniel, not everything and she cried. I hated when she cried. It made my heart ache too. In a house of four men she and I had to take stands on so many things. We had to stick together. I was never any trouble so it wasn’t the typical mother daughter relationship. She was truly my best friend; as far back as I could remember she had been.

     She asked me about Xavier. I told her how insane he made me and that he was as much a pompous, arrogant, ass as my brothers and father. She laughed and told me that Kaen and Keller told her he was worse. That he refused to tell them anything. They told him to stay away from me and he told them no.

     “See he’s worse.” I laughed.

     “I like him.”

     “Did you see--?”

     “Google? Yes of course, your brothers apparently told him he was a wanna be porn star spoiled rich kid,” she laughed.

     “He’s not a spoiled rich kid Mom.”

     “Are you sticking up for him?”

     “I guess.”

     “So when do I get to meet him?”

     “It’s not like that.”

     “Okay dear.”

     I knew when she said that she was only agreeing to sound agreeable.

     “Love you Mom.”

     “You too. Be safe please.”

     “Of course.”

     I grabbed the ice cream out of the freezer and a spoon out of the drawer and headed up the stairs. I climbed into the bed and for the first time in two days turned on the television. My comfort, the noise in the background that had drowned out the silence of the past few years.

     ‘In the news tonight are New Jersey’s own hot, somewhat eligible and ever elusive Steel brothers. While Jase, Cyrus, and Zandor Steel have seemingly gone into hiding, the youngest, Xavier, seems to be living the life we would all expect a tattooed, millionaire, with the body of a god and apparently the sexual appetite of beast. Several photos have popped up online of Xavier with several different women. Reports have come in that one photo, taken by an unknown photographer, was taken through a bedroom window of what is known as Cyrus’s home. An anonymous tip reveals that the girl, a college student who was engaged to be married, was the girl photographed last with Xavier Steel. It is said she was engaged to a man who attends Harvard University’s Medical program. When we reached out to the man who we will call Daniel, he asked that we please respect his wishes and let him grieve the loss of the woman he loves to a poor excuse for a man. More photos released today show Xavier Steel exiting one of Harvard’s off campus housing apartments and giving the women a very flirtatious wink as he exited. Sources say that Xavier visited Daniel threatening him, and telling him to back off his newest flavor of the week. Look out husbands and boyfriends; it looks like our Men of Steel will stop at nothing to get into the panties of any woman they so desire. And I’m not sure even love could conquer the desire we all feel when we simply look at any of these men…of steel.’





Chapter 13



     U- Turn



     I was in the SUV less than five minutes when the phone rang.

     “Irish?” I answered knowing it had to be her, because she had to be feeling as shitty as I was right…

     “Italian dumb fuck.”

     “What’s up Zandor?”

     “Did you get accepted?”

     “What the fuck are you talking about?”

     “The news,” Cyrus laughed. “We saw you on the news. Did you get accepted into Harvard?”

     “Fuck you.”

     “I don’t think he did. DENIED,” Jase laughed.

     “What the hell do you three want, what the fuck are you calling me at this time for? Shouldn’t you be banging your bitches?”