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“You know,” Maddox said, breaking into my conversation with her.
I lifted my gaze to find him sitting casually across from me with one arm slung on the back of the chair.
“I’m not sure Hawk was ever this into anyone. Not even in college. He signed that pact because he didn’t ever think anyone would get to him. He never thought it would be a problem.”
“Oh?”
Hawk had mentioned something like that, though I knew there was more to his reasoning for signing it. Apparently, these two didn’t know about the difficulties he had with his parents.
Still, they knew things about Hawk that I didn’t. They’d known him longer than I had, after all.
I wasn’t sure what to say. I was both curious about their thoughts and didn’t want to hear them at the same time.
“He flirted with everyone he could,” Maddox went on. “But when it came down to settling with anyone, he never did.”
Duncan peeled his attention from the shelves and jutted his chin at me. “What’d you do?”
His question was accusatory, as though Hawk’s feelings for me were against the law and were completely my fault.
My brows rose. Duncan settled onto the other chair across from me, the one beside Maddox. And he scowled at me.
I still couldn’t figure out the reasoning for his surliness. Was he mad at me for dating his friend? For making Hawk go back on this Pact of theirs?
“What do you mean, what did I do? I didn’t do anything. In fact, I tried my hardest to keep Hawk away from me.”
Duncan scoffed, shaking his head and turning away. “Women.”
I opened my mouth to defend myself, but Maddox laughed.
“Don’t mind him. This guy’s had it for his assistant for months now, but he can’t get her to like him back.”
My smile made an appearance. This was interesting. This scowling, brooding man had a heart under all that jerk persona?
“She’s keeping her distance, too?” I asked.
It was no wonder, if he was this way with her. He definitely fit the boss-hole figure.
Duncan glared at him, and Maddox just grinned wider.
Honestly, what made these two friends? If I had a friend who was this crabby and snapped at me every time I talked, I wouldn’t want anything to do with her.
“She’s my assistant,” Duncan said, spreading his hands through the air as if smoothing an invisible tablecloth. “There’s nothing else going on between us.”
“Yeah, sure,” Maddox said. “Keep telling yourself that.”
“What about you?” I asked him, deflecting the attention back to Maddox. “Did you both sign this pact?”
“Yeah, we did,” Maddox said.
“We never took it seriously,” Duncan added.
Interesting. I wondered what would bring all these good-looking guys to do something so irrational and drastic.
That was something I’d had to ask Hawk. He’d never told me why he’d done it.
“So you think this person who’s been targeting people…”
“Will,” Maddox said.
