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er did anything right, either.”
I just shook my head, so mad that I couldn’t even see straight. My best friend was an asshole. He was a stubborn, closed-minded asshole. I could handle a lot of shit from him, but apparently his disrespect for Haven was not one of them.
“Fuck you,” I said. “Just…fuck…you.” Turning away, I stormed off.
But I didn’t even make it ten feet before he grabbed my arm and tugged me to a stop.
“Hey.” He sounded apologetic, all anger dissolved from his voice. “Web… Brother…”
With an impatient growl, I stopped and spun toward him. “What?”
He flinched at my tone but then shook his head. “Man, you know I’m just worried about you, right? I was pissed you kept me out of the loop like you did, but mostly, I’m just worried about what’s going to happen now. I can already see how this is going to play out, and, Wick, my man… That girl is nothing but trouble. She’ll only get you hurt. You know that, right?”
Huffing out a deflated breath, I wearily ran my hands over my face and nodded. “Yeah,” I mumbled. “Probably.”
Cannon gaped at me a moment before he shook his head. “Well, at least you’re aware, I guess.”
I rolled my eyes. “You’re an idiot.”
Grinning back, he smacked me in the shoulder with the back of his hand. “Yeah, I hate you too.”
In tandem, we turned and started for the business building together. “I don’t even know why I’m flipping out,” Cannon muttered. “I mean, you got her out of your hair and to her parents. Problem solved. We’ll never have to deal with her again.”
When I didn’t answer, just wiped a hand over my face, Cannon glanced at me, frowning. When he realized there was more to the story, he fell to a stop, crying, “Oh fuck, what did you do, Web?”
I opened my mouth, but no words came. I still couldn’t quite believe this new development myself, and it was harder to admit aloud than it was to make sense of in my brain.
“She caught him screwing her roommate,” I started, trying to make it sound a lot more reasonable and logical than it even felt to me. “Her roommate. So, understandably, she didn’t want to live there any longer, right? But she couldn’t go home with her parents, either. They live over an hour away, I guess. She needed a place to stay in town so she could make it to her classes every day.”
“Oh, hell no. You didn’t.”
“I didn’t even suggest the idea,” I went on. “Izzy’s the one who opened her big mouth and mentioned the fact that I had an extra room to rent out.”
“Holy shit, man. You did. Oh my God.”
“I voiced my concerns about the idea.”
Cannon’s eyebrows shot up. “You voiced your concerns? Are you fucking kidding me right now? What’s wrong with a straight-up no-way-in-hell? You certainly didn’t have a problem saying that to me when I asked to sub-rent that damn second room at your place.”
“Well, you’re a slob, and I still want to be your friend after college. I’d hate you within a month if we lived together.”
“Oh, so is that the end-plan with her, then? Let her move in with the hopes you’ll end up hating her soon?”
“Man.” I shook my head and blew out a breath. “I didn’t know how to stop it. It just… I couldn’t say no.”
When I met his gaze to let him see how much turmoil all this had put me through, he groaned out a sound of frustrated un-amusement. “Wow. Must be nice to have tits. Those things reduce you to a fucking marshmallow, I swear.”
I didn’t answer, because sadly, what he said was true. It was almost impossible for me to say no to a girl.
Grumbling under his breath, Cannon ran his hands over his dark, shaved head and then looked at me. Just looked at me in disappointment, as if he knew there was no way to change me.
I kicked at a leaf on the ground. “Go ahead and say it,” I prompted. “I know you want to.”
“You just started a war,” he announced, shaking his head. “We only had a few weeks left to put up with this fucker until the end of the season. That’s it. Weeks. And you just started a fucking war with him.”
I tried to deny it. “He doesn’t even have to know about it.”
“Oh, he’ll figure it out,” Cannon said with more certainty than he said most things. “Nicholl is hell-bent on finding his girl. And when he discovers she’s shacking up with you, that’s it. We’re all going to have to take sides. It’s going to be an all-out war, too; no one on the team will come out unscathed.”
