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East let out a long-suffering groan. “This is all so nauseatinglynice. Aren’t you at least a little bit annoyed he prefers your dad’s dick over your?—”
Before East could finish, Daire gave his shoulder a hard shove, sending him tumbling off the counter.
“What the fuck, man?”
Daire rested against the vacated spot. “You were in my way.”
I took that as my cue to lead Serena away from the nosy assholes and over to the wide wall of panoramic windows overlooking Manhattan.
“Thanks for coming and helping out tonight,” I said.
“You don’t need to thank me. The second you said you and the guys were helping Gavin move, I knew you’d be down one.”
I smiled at her as we both said, “East,” and laughed.
“I’m surprised he even showed, to be honest,” I said.
“He wouldn’t have missed out on the opportunity to boss us around or be an utter dick.”
“That’s true.”
Silence fell between us then, and before it could grow and get weird, I asked, “What the guys said back there… Are we—are you—good?”
Serena smiled. “We’re good, I promise. It was a little tough at first to wrap my head around, but I’m good now.”
“Are you sure? I would understand if?—”
“Preston. I’m sure. In fact, I wanted to ask how your, um, weekend was? Not all the details or anything, but how was the Plaza?”
I blinked, going still at the mention of our weekend retreat. “Uh, how did you know about that?”
“A pipe in my apartment busted, and me and the girls kind of took over Dad’s house. He couldn’t really handle more than one night of Victoria hitting on him, so when he said he was going to get a room at the Plaza… Well. I figured he might invite you.”
Heat burned my cheeks just from thinking about what we’d done on our little getaway, and I looked down at my feet so she wouldn’t notice.
But she did. Of course she did.
“Are you blushing?” she said, maneuvering her body to block the guys’ view of me. What was it about Carringtons that had me turning several shades of red around them?
“I’m, ah… It was nice.”
“Blushingandstammering. If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were falling in looooove.”
As I stood there trying to think of a response that made any kind of sense, Serena moved in closer and put her hand on my arm.
“Oh my God. You like him. Like,reallylike him.”
I swallowed around the sudden lump in my throat, not about to lie to her now. Not when there was finally nothing but truth between us.
“Wow.” She rubbed my arm and squeezed my bicep. “Hey, that’s great. I love you both. I just didn’t realize it was that serious.”
“I… Well, he doesn’t know I feel that, um. You know,thatstrongly. I mean, I don’t think he does.”
Serena nodded, the understanding in her eyes much more than I ever could’ve asked or hoped for. “Maybe you should tell him. That’s kind of important, don’t you think? Being on the same page?”
“I can’t tell him that. We’re just having fun. He’s Archer Carrington, and I’m just…”
“Just what? Because I’ve got to say, I’ve never seen my dad act the way he’s been acting lately.”
