Meet My Brothers by Red Thirteen

Mia’s stomach roiled at the thought of what would happen on that bed in a while. Still, she controlled herself and turned to head into the walk-in closet to pack her things. It didn’t take long to put everything into her suitcase.

“Kaleb, that suitcase seems to be branded. Get her a recyclable bag for her to put her stuff,” Maya said.

Soon, Kaleb brought over a dirty recyclable bag. He flung it at Mia’s feet and said, “Use this.”

Mia bent down to open up her suitcase. Behind her, Maya said, “Remember to check her things later. We don’t want her to take anything that doesn’t belong to her.”

At her words, Mia recalled what Timothy had said about getting rid of the baby. He was only in the bathroom; if he were to find out about the pregnancy test, there was no way she could keep the baby.

Kaleb and Maya were standing guard outside the walk-in closet. Mia looked at the pregnancy test that she’d buried with her stuff, then came to a decision.

mouth and swallowing them. As she stared at Timothy’s clothes in the closet,

to do with the Barrett family. Mia turned to leave the closet with

disgusted. “God, get out of

of the shower, she wouldn’t be able to drive Mia away. She couldn’t allow

forward to shove Mia. “Are you

distance, but it felt like it took her a

ground as if wanting to search for something. It was

ground, wanting to pick her things

she answered it and heard Patricia’s voice, the

Maya and misunderstood by Timothy without shedding a tear, but she could no

are

Aunt Patricia. I’m

thing. Whoever said anything about you not having a family? That’s what I’m calling you about—your family tracked me down. You have three older brothers who are

you have six older men to watch over you. They’re here for you, and they’re