“You?”
“Yes. But also with someone else.”
I regard the ladies at the table as they laugh and eat the decadent food. Which one of them could it be? Surely not Misty. Or Heather or June. He hasn’t spent time with any of them. Not me, either.
Fuck. “No. You’re kidding.”
She sighs. “I wish I were.”
“He did choose her the first night,” I say. “And Ariel is a gem. But she’s head over heels for Alex, and?—”
Sienna interrupts me as she bursts into laughter…but not humorous laughter. More like mad laughter.
“Sienna?”
She’s still laughing, and now it’s loud and crazy enough that Misty is eyeing us from the table.
I lead Sienna a few steps farther away. “What the bloody hell is wrong with you?”
“What’s wrong with me?” She gasps between laughs. “Only everything. Again I’ve fallen for a man who doesn’t seem to know his own heart.”
“What’s so funny about that?”
“What’s funny is that you assumed I was talking about Ariel.”
“Well, it can’t possibly be any of the others,” I say.
“It’s not,” she says, panting. She waits a moment, finally gets her bearing. “It’s Jake.”
“Jake?” I say way too loudly.
“Shhh,” she hisses, grabbing my wrist. “Keep your voice down.”
I blink. “Jake?”
“Yes,” she whispers. “Brett is in love with Jake.”
My mind blanks for a moment, trying to absorb what I’ve just heard. I glance back toward the table.
“I— But are you sure?”
Sienna crosses her arms, her body still trembling slightly from the fit of laughter. “He admitted it to me. That Jake was his first love, but they never acted on it. They were just kids, you know. I could accept that…except…”
“Except what?” I ask, my voice barely above the sound of the waves. “Does Jake know?”
Sienna doesn’t answer right away.
She just looks out at the ocean, her arms crossed tightly over her chest.
“Oh, yes,” she finally says. “He knows.”
My brows shoot up. “How can you be sure?”
She swallows hard. “Because I saw them.” Her voice cracks. “I saw them kissing.”
My mouth falls open. I blink once, twice. “What?”
“Earlier today, here on the beach. I saw them. Brett and Jake. It wasn’t just a kiss. It was full of history.”
