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“Nope,” she muttered. “I’ll be opposite Brennan though, and Savvie made sure Paddy was at the bottom so I don’t have to look at him.”
“Finn says he didn’t know you existed.”
She shrugged, tossing her hair over her shoulder in a move that was pure sass. “I don’t care.”
I grabbed her hand. “I’d do anything to have a relationship with my parents, Jen. I know how it ended with your mom… maybe you could have something decent with your dad.”
Her mom had tried to use Jen to pay off her debts. Thank God Luc had smelled a rat and had been there to protect her.
She bit her lip. “Don’t fuss, Eef.”
“I’m not. I’m just saying it how it is.”
“I miss Ellie too, you know?”
Tears made it harder to choke out, “I miss her every day. It was an ache before, you know? Like, it had faded some.
“I could think about her without wanting to bawl, but it’s dragged it back to the surface so it’s fresh.” I sucked in a sharp, pained breath. “It hurts,” I said simply.
“Oh, sweetheart, I know,” she whispered, tugging me into her arms for a hug. “I’ll talk to him today, okay?”
I muttered in her ear, “More than a ‘hello, sperm donor?’”
“You drive a hard bargain,” she complained.
“You could ask how Liam is. Maybe talk about how often he’s going to be visiting New York now he’s back in the fold,” I prompted. “If you want, I could invite him around for Saturday night dinner and you and Luc could come then. But you know you’re always welcome.”
She squeezed me. “Thank you, sweetheart. You’re the best, do you know that?” Jen pulled back and cupped my cheek. “I learned something today.”
“You did?”
She nodded. “I impart this knowledge to make up for the fact I cockblocked you.”
I groaned. “Jen, I’m trying to be serious.”
Clucking her tongue, she said, “Do this.”
She crossed the thumb of her left hand across her palm, then tightened her fingers over it. With her other hand, she pressed the tip of her pointer finger to her chin, before she opened up her clenched palm and pinched the soft meat between thumb and pointer finger with the same digits on her other hand.
“What on earth? Is that some kind of secret handshake?”
“Do it,” she ordered.
I huffed, did as she said, then demanded, “What now?”
She smirked. “Now you can choke on Finn’s dick tonight without gagging.”
Cackling at me as she raced into Savvie’s room, I shook my head and experimentally pressed my finger to the back of my throat.
Holy shit.
It worked.
