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force a female into sexual activities with you. Most especially my fucking sister.
    Mom pauses when she sees my entire body tense up but I said I wouldn’t speak until she was done. I wave her on. “She seems confused about the whole ordeal. She didn’t come out and tell me any details but I don’t think she really remembers everything. And she said she was really drunk.”
    Why would my sister be getting drunk with Donovan in the first place? Yeah he’s her brother-in-law but I don’t think she really had that much of a relationship with him. Mostly he sticks with his friends. Even his relationship with his brother is strained. It’s been strained since…
    I close my eyes and I grit my teeth. I hate to admit it but I’m on the verge of tears. “Are you okay honey?” Mom asks, crossing the space between the couches and sitting next to me. She wraps her arms around me and I take in her vanilla scent. It comforts me a little. My mom gives great hugs.
    I shake my head because I’m not okay. “Can I speak now?” I ask her shoulder.
    She nods and pulls away to look at me. “You have the same suspicion I do, don’t you?”
    “The first thing I thought about when you started this, I thought about the love between Pierce and Rachel on their wedding day. How incredibly happy and totally into each other they were. And now that I think about it, I can’t remember a time that it was any different between them. They’ve always been it for each other.” I place my head in my hands trying to block out the shit I see in my head. I see Donovan taking advantage of my sister. You believe what you want but that asshole did this on purpose. Rachel would never willingly cheat on Pierce. “He did something to her Mom. She wouldn’t do that to Pierce no matter how drunk she was. Donovan set her up.”
    Mom rubs the back of my neck. “I need you to speak to Channing about this, discreetly. The entire Pierce/Bridges clan is going to flip out if we start accusing Donovan of anything, at least without proof.”
    “Why Channing? He’s going to believe us. He’s more my brother than he’s ever been Pierce’s.” I dig my nails into my palm to keep myself in check. No matter what happens, I can’t run off half cocked and looking for a fight. “And why doesn’t Pierce believe Rachel? That doesn’t make any sense.”
    Mom sighs and that’s when I feel Dad move onto the couch next to me. “Sounds to me like Rachel had a little GHB or another drug like that. The way your mother explained it, Rachel didn’t push him away, didn’t try to stop him yet she wasn’t enjoying it. The GHB would have made her lucid and confused and very sleepy. I doubt she was really drunk. But Rachel blames herself. She doesn’t seem to even realize what we do. She thinks she deserves everything that has happened to her.”
    “Fuck that shit. She didn’t deserve any of that,” I say, my voice cracking from emotion.
    “We know that, honey. We know just like you that Rachel wouldn’t cheat on Pierce, no matter their past history. Rachel loves Asher way too much to ever do anything to hurt him. That’s why I know Donovan did something to her.” Mom seems so calm but I see the wrinkles on her pants were she’s been gripping them. Not to mention her chewed nails.
    “Rachel said that Channing came home that night in the middle of everything. I think that’s the only reason nothing worse happened. That’s why we want you to talk to him.”
    I tell them that I will and I get up to leave. Before I leave the house though I walk upstairs to my sister’s room. I walk into the room and take in the white and pink thrown all around. Mom didn’t change either of our rooms after we moved out. And that makes this much worse. My sister isn’t a little girl anymore. She’s a grown woman. But that doesn’t mean I still can’t protect her.
    Rachel is still asleep and I lean over her bed to kiss her forehead. Then I whisper, “No matter what happens, I