“All right?” I asked, feeling my forehead scrunch.
“Yeah. All right.”
My brow pinched. “All right what?”
He looked at me like I was the one who’d lost my damn mind. “Allright. What do you need me to spell out for you here?”
My chin dropped. “You don’t have a problem with … ?” I glanced at the side of Griff’s face, which was all I could see from where I lay. His features were even, steady.Okay, then. “With whatever this is between … ?” I’d barely even allowed myself to think about the two of us as a couple. I gulped, my throat still tender. “Between the two of us?”
Layla snorted. “Oh my God, this is gonna be so good. If Joss is this flustered just talking about it, can you imagine what she’s gonna be like when they start doing it?” She rubbed her hands together, a devilish expression on her face. “Can’t wait. This is gonna be so lit.”
I shook my head to clear it, but my brow wouldn’t unfurrow. “Wait. You guys are seriously okay with this? Like, for real?”
“Sure,” Brady said lightly. “You’re our peeps. Happy for you.”
I shook my head again. But nope, what they were saying remained as unbelievable as before.
“Well,” I started to say, before devolving into a stupefied, “Wow.”
Layla laughed. “What? Did you think we’d crucify you for falling in love with each other?”
I met her eyes.
She frowned. “That’s really what you think of us? That we wouldn’t want you guys to be happy?”
“I know you guys want us to be happy. Of course you do. But, well, I thought it would mess with our friendship. That you guys would be mega pissed.” More quietly, I added, “That it’d blow up everything most important to me.”
“Nah, girl. We saw it coming.”
My brows jumped up my forehead. My face had probably never been this animated. “You did? How? I didn’t even see it coming.”
She snorted. “Dude, we aren’t blind you know. We see how you guys look at each other, especially when you think no one’s paying attention.”
“Yep,” Hunt said.
A smirk tipping up one side of his mouth, Brady nodded. “Especially when we’ve been drinking or toking. You really drop your guard then.”
“For real,” Layla said. “I was just waiting for little cartoon hearts to pop up in your eyes.”
“Why … why’d you never say anything?”
“Why should we? It was your business, not ours.”
At that, we all laughed. Brady actually guffawed, saying, “Sticking your nose in other people’s business isyour jam, Lay.”
“Is not.” But a moment later even she laughed. “All right, fine, it is. But I love you guys.” Her eyes jumped from me to Griff. “I didn’t want to do anything to mess this up for you.”
“Thanks, Lay,” Griff said, cool as a crispy cucumber. “’Preciate that.”
“Besides, it was worth it just to see Joss’s face now. Fucking priceless.”
“I thought I was gonna lose you all!”
“No way, man,” Hunt said. “You can never lose us.”
“That’s right,” Brady agreed.
“And you don’t need me to tell you,” Layla said. “You and me, we’re sisters from other misters.” She tipped her head. “Now that we’re crossing lines though, maybe Hunt and I should start getting frisky with each other.”
