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“The fuck I am.”
“Relax,” I say. “No one is playing with anyone.”
“Except their allocated partner,” Conner chimes in.
“Allocated partner?” Hadley balks.
“You make it sound soooo sexy.”
“This is nice,” I declare.
“Yeah.” Hadley beams at me. “It is, isn’t it.”
“Yeah, this... no matter what happens or where the future takes us,” Ace says, “we’ll always have this. You’re my brothers, my family... and nothing, nothing will ever change that.”
“Now, there’s something I can agree with.” Conner tips his beer to his brothers. “I love you, guys.”
“But not enough to fuck me?” Cole deadpans, sending everyone but Conner into fits of laughter.
Ace is right. Whatever the future brings, one thing is for certain.
We’ll always have each other.
Chapter Thirty-Four
Conner
Two months later...
"Come on then, let's see," Hadley urges as Kenny and I join her, Cole, Ace and Remi, who are standing with Dad and Sarah, waiting for the graduation ceremony to start.
"Here?" Kenny asks.
"Why not? It's not like you had your pussy inked. What?" I ask when Kenny shoots me a death glare before glancing at Dad.
"I'm sure he's heard worse, babe." Given the fact that we still know nothing about his secret life, I'd say that he's heard worse. The whole thing sounds dodgy as fuck, and I can only assume the reason he doesn't tell all is that it's incriminating. I don’t spare James a glance. Things between us are still tense, and until he starts sharing some more truths, I’m not sure it’s going to be any better. "I'll show them mine, if you show them yours."
She rolls her eyes at me. “You're a pain in my ass, Conner Jagger."
"You love it, Kennedy Lowe."
"Ugh," she moans before lifting her shirt, showing everyone who's watching her flat, toned stomach—or more importantly, her ribs.
"Wow," Remi breathes. "That's stunning. Cruz did a great job."
I look at the ink Remi and Hadley are staring at and smile. Remi isn't wrong, Cruz took the very questionable sketch that Kenny and I walked in with and turned it into a piece of art, a little piece of us.
"Now you," Hadley says, nodding down to my ribs.
"You just want to get me naked, Hadley baby."
"Yeah, it's literally all I can think about," she deadpans. "Hey," she complains when Cole threads his fingers into her hair and pulls her back into his body, whispering something in her ear that makes her entire body sag with desire.
"And to think you were worried about showing off our ink," I mutter, watching the pair of them through jealous eyes. As much as I want to graduate, standing around waiting for it to happen is testing my patience, especially when I've got an even better surprise at home waiting for K.
"Come on then, we don’t have all day," Ace says, raising a brow.
"Fine." I lift my shirt and press my side against Kenny's. The two origami flowers that stain our skin merge into one as we come together, the K inside mine and the C inside hers, sitting side by side where they should always be.
