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“You should give him another shot,” Danica says.
“You should,” Jenna agrees and Ava nods along effusively.
“You ladies are drunk,” I say with a laugh as I turn to the sink, plates in hand.
“Just why are you ladies drunk?” Callum asks as he enters the kitchen, causing Ava to shriek in fright since he’s right behind her.
The grin he gives her is disarming, to me at least, and she reaches out to swat at him in censure. “Jesus… why are you sneaking up on us?”
“Hard to sneak in your own house,” Callum says, leaning across the counter and checking out the wineglasses and empty bottles. He lifts the lid to the cake plate to find the confection half destroyed. He dips his finger in the frosting before bringing it to his mouth. “Yummy.”
I ignore the fluttering in my belly from watching him do that but when my eyes cut to Sophie, she’s staring at me pointedly like… you should totally reconnect with that.
Nope.
No way.
That ship has sailed.
CHAPTER 15
Callum
When I suggested to Jenna that maybe some of the girls could reach out to Juniper, I did not expect to come home and find them all drunk in my house. I damn sure didn’t think I’d walk in on a conversation wherein the women were encouraging her to rekindle things with me. I didn’t like hearing how I broke her heart and that she couldn’t trust me again, but I wasn’t displeased that didn’t seem to mean much to Ava, Sophie, Danica and Jenna. They were all pushing for a second chance.
I figured I better announce myself before it went deeper and the way Juniper is looking at me right now, I know she’s wondering what, if anything, I heard.
“Is that on the dinner menu tonight?” I ask, nodding toward the cake.
Juniper seems at a loss for a beat, then starts rambling. “I was going to head out to the grocery store when the girls showed up. And well…”
“One bottle of wine turned into four?” I tease, holding up an empty.
“Five,” says Ava, lifting the most recent one she’s just opened.
“Let’s order pizza,” I say as I pull my phone from my pocket. “And ladies… either call your men to come get you and join us for food, or you’re Ubering.”
After I take requests for toppings and the ladies all decide to hire cars for their trips home, we sit around the kitchen island shooting the shit. We don’t talk about Titan trades, and we don’t talk about Juniper and me rekindling our romance. Because I tend to hang out with the coaches and not the players, I do know Sophie, Jenna and Ava a bit better than Danica, so I spend time talking with her.
The pizza arrives and along with cold bottles of water, there is some slight sobering before the women all request their Ubers. One by one, the cars arrive.
Danica and Ava share a ride and before they leave, they extract an assurance from Juniper. “The tea party isn’t a stupid idea, right?”
“It’s a brilliant idea,” she says with a grin. “How can we go wrong with little sandwiches and desserts?”
“There’s usually no alcohol.” Ava snorts.
“We can have champagne too.” Juniper laughs.
“Wait a minute,” I butt in. “You’re having a tea party? You know there’s no way in hell the menfolk will go for that.”
“Thank you for your opinion,” Ava says with a smirk. “But the men aren’t invited. We’re going to do a fancy monthly tea party for the Titan Queens and Juniper is in charge of cucumber sandwiches.”
“You ladies are still drunk, I think,” I tease as they hurry off to their waiting cars.
Sophie grabs Juniper’s hands and squeezes them. “You promise you’re coming next weekend, right?”
Juniper turns to look at me. “Sophie wants me to come with you to her wedding.”
