I can't believe I'm already over halfway through with this! I'm so proud of myself. Thank you all so much for reading this.
Continuation of Chapter 1.
Malcolm may not be an idiot, but he still had the occasional lapse in judgement.
Say, for instance, your brother was seeing someone, and lets say, yes, you were jealous, but not of your brother. Of the girl. So, the logical thing to do would be to break them up. So Malcolm did.
But how he did it... THAT was how he screwed up.
It was easy enough for him to charm his way into her bedroom, to charm his way under her bed, and when Reese found him, Malcolm knew without a doubt that their relationship was over. And it was. Oh, it was. But if Malcolm had thought about it, perhaps another way would have been better than the "I'll-show-you-for-stealing-my-heart" approach, because Reese was devastated. And then he joined the military. Just like that.
And Malcolm knew there was no way he could explain himself for this.