Page 59 of Bones

Lu

Do you want us to come over?

Isla

Skull said you aren’t home. Where are you? Please let us know you are okay.

Xanthe

PROOF OF LIFE.

Meredith

I’m okay! I’ll be back in a few days. I just need some space.

After messaging them, I contact my boss and tell him that I’m unwell and need a few days off.

Isla

Bones is going crazy. I’ll tell him you’re okay.

Meredith

I don’t want to see him.

The more I’ve thought about it, the more everything is starting to make sense. Why didn’t I see this before? The little comments that people made insinuated that the twins shared everything.

Everything.

They even shared women.

They shared Isla.

They raise Natalia together, but no one has ever said that Bones is the father and Skull is the uncle. They act like her father and are referred to as such.

Bones has kept so much more from me than just the fact that he fucked his sister-in-law.

Have they always shared women? Did Skull not want to share Isla aside from that one time? Is that why Bones was so upset and lost? Did he find me just because he needed someone, anyone? Does he have feelings for Isla?

I remember how intimate that moment was between them, and now it all makes sense.

They seem too close because they are. They’ve been with each other. That brings a whole different level of intimacy.

Bones kept all of this from me.

My stomach knots, and I bury my face into the hotel pillow.

Everyone around me knew.

Except me.

Those two share everything. That’s exactly what Pyro said to me. Was he trying to tell me? I know he owes his loyalty to his brothers. I can’t blame anyone else.

This is all on Bones.

He’s no longer Nate to me.

Two movies and one room service meal later, there’s a knock at the door. Staring through the peephole, I sigh when I see Skull. Since I don’t see Bones with him, I open the door and stick out my face. “What do you want?” I ask him, frowning. “Did you ask Blade to find me?”