"Why have you not told her?"

Rubbing my arm discreetly which felt like it still had pressure on it from Chase's grip, I let out a small chuckle at his expression as I pointed to it "So she does not look at me like you are right now."

"Like what?"

"Like I am some puppy that has been kicked." I replied with a small smile "I do not need sympathy and I do not want to worry her."

The surfer spoke while glancing down at my reddened arm "You need to tell Stone about what Chase said."

"What good would that do?"

Brennan let his jaw drop like it was an obvious solution "He can kick the living shit out of him."

I did not have any intention of telling Stone. I hated what Chase had said but I did not want him to be six-foot underground.

The only thing going through my head was Chase's words. Over and over again.

A soft but stern voice broke my train of thought as Brennan spoke again "Don't you dare even think that anything Chase said was true. Stone would never look at anyone else."

Nothing left my lips in reply.

"There was nobody before you and there will be nobody after you." Brennan said as if it was the undeniable truth "You are it for him. All he sees is you. You are the most important thing to him in the whole world. If not the only."

Chase words disappear from my mind, and they seemed so irrelevant and insignificant compared to what Brennan had said.

I was digesting every word he had said but my expression must not have changed because Brennan kept speaking.

"I love my brother, but he is one moody fucker. He never showed any feeling to anything at all." He retold with a grin "Then you walked into the ice cream parlour that night at the pier and his breath hitched as soon as he seen you. You opened your mouth and spoke all of your nerdy stuff and I think that his heart skilled a beat. It was like he was cast under some sort of spell."

I was lost for words.

"Ever since that night, he laughs, he jokes, and he is happy." Brennan continued "That is all because of you."

My breath hitched and I had no idea what to say because there were no words. It only could have felt better if it was Stone telling me the words.

"Should you really be telling me this?" I questioned.

"No." He muttered to himself as he looked at the floor "But at least I am not telling you about the Addams Family thing."

"Oh, I already know about that."

His head snapped up "What? I did not think that he would tell you."

"He didn't." I replied, "Mrs Lewis did."