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Or maybe that the Guide who’d come to town to kill them all was sitting in a jail cell, and could be released at any time.
Not to mention the stack of college responses hidden in his desk at home. Or his family’s struggling landscaping business, which was barely turning a profit now, to say nothing of getting through the winter.
Oh, and the fact that he was g*y, and one of the only two people who knew was sitting right here ragging on him about it.
“Why don’t you come to the studio tonight?” she said.
“I have a physics test tomorrow. I need to study.”
“Please. Like you couldn’t pass that in your sleep. And if you really needed to study, why aren’t your brothers doing this job?”
Nick shook her hands off and reached for another stone.
“Hannah was off tonight, and Mike needed a break. I offered.”
“Of course you did.” She paused. “And Gabriel? Chris?”
“Busy, and busy.” His youngest brother, Chris, had plans with his girlfriend. And Gabriel, his twin, was trying to catch up on math so he could apply for firefighter school in the spring.
“Come on,” said Quinn. “You know you want to.”
He did want to. A lot.
A lot more than he wanted to admit.
Too complicated. He shook his head.
“Come on,” said Quinn. “You could bring your textbook.
Wear some glasses. He’d probably think it was sexy.”
Nick told himself to stop imagining it.
Quinn grinned. “Nicholas Merrick. You are blushing.”
“Seriously. Pool. Out back. Get ready to be all wet.”
“If you don’t come with me, I’m going to tell him to stop pining, because you’re not interested.”
“You are not going to tell him that.”
“Yes. I am. In fact—” She pulled out her cell phone. “I’m going to tell him right now.”
Her hands were flying across the keys. Nick was on his feet yanking it out of her hands before he even knew he was moving.
She didn’t fight him.
Then he looked down at what she’d typed. Not a message to Adam. A message to him.
You deserve a break, too, Nick.
He sighed. “I don’t know.”
Her voice gentled. “I know you still like him.” She paused.
“It’s not a date. It’s an hour in the studio.”
An hour watching Adam dance. He’d almost come undone the first time. But eager butterflies were hanging streamers for a party in his stomach. “All right. I’ll come with you.”
