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“You wouldn’t have wanted to accompany us even if we invited you,” Gage said.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Her frown returned, but she aimed it at affable Gage, which was fun to watch. He finished stirring his own coffee and sent her a grim head shake.
“Darling.” Reid looped an arm around her shoulders. “Don’t make us say it.”
“Ugh. Did you all pick up girls?” She asked everyone but her eyes tracked to Flynn and stayed there. “And why wasn’t I invited? I’m an excellent wingwoman.”
Flynn felt a zip of discomfort at the idea of Sabrina fixing him up with a woman—or being there while he trotted out his A game to impress one. He’d suffered a few crash-and-burns last night and was glad she wasn’t there to witness them.
Sabrina pursed her lips in consideration. “Did the evening have anything to do with you three reaffirming your dumb pact?”
“It’s not dumb,” Flynn was the first to say. Family and marriage and happily ever after were ideas that he used to hold sacred. He’d seen the flip side of that coin. Broken promises and regret.
Divorce had changed him.
“You’re single with us, love. Did you want in on the pact?” Reid smiled as he refilled his paper Starbucks cup.
“No, I do not. And I’m single by choice. You’re single—” she poked Reid in the chest “—because you’re a lemming.”
“I’m to believe you’re single by choice,” Reid stated flatly. She wisely ignored the barb.
“A pact to not fall in love is juvenile and shortsighted.”
“We can fall in love,” Gage argued. “We agreed not to marry.”
“Pathetic.” She rolled her eyes and Flynn lost his patience.
“Sabrina.” He dipped his voice to its most authoritative tone. “It’s not a joke.”
She craned her chin to take in all six feet of him and gave him a withering glare that would’ve shrunk a lesser man’s balls.
“I know it’s not a joke. But it’s still pathetic.”
She turned for the coffeemaker and Reid chuckled. “You have no effect on her, mate.”
“Yeah, well, vice versa,” Flynn said, but felt the untruth hiding behind his statement. Sabrina had enough of an effect on him that he treated her differently than he did Reid and Gage. As present as she was in his life, it’d always been impossible to slot her in as one of the “guys.” And in a weird way he’d protected her when he’d excluded her from last night’s shenanigans as well as the skiing weekend. Flynn was jaded to the nth degree. Sabrina wasn’t. He needed her to stay positive and sunshiny. He needed her to be okay. For her own sake, sure, but also for his.
“Heartbreak isn’t a myth,” Reid called out to her as she walked for the door. “You’ll see that someday.”
“Morons.” She strolled out but did so with a twitch in her walk and a smile on her face. Immune to all of them, evidently.
