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“I have to tell you something.” I set my taco down, buying a minute. “After the Midsummer Exhibition, I’m leaving the company.”
“What. The. Fuck. Are you talking about?”
“Earlier this year, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.”
“Babe, no.” Her eyes fill with tears, and she drops her tacos to come wrap me up in a hug. “I’m so sorry.” She sways with me for a bit. “I haven’t noticed your physical abilities change, though. Why do you need to stop dancing?”
“It seems to be having more of an effect on my memory for the time being. It’s why I’ve been having so much trouble with remembering choreography.”
“Oh shit. I didn’t know it could cause memory problems. I thought it was just walking and stuff.” She’s quiet for a minute as the news sinks in. “This all sucks, Claire, but what does it have to do with you and Griff being a short-term thing?”
“He deserves a future with someone who can be his life-long partner.”
“Did he say that?” Her eyebrows raise. “Because my pawpaw has a cabin near a swamp down home, and we could easily feed his ass to some gators. No one would know.”
“No,” I smile at her offer. Little does she know with one phone call I could have the Bratva at his door. “He actually told Con that he was in love with me.”
“Wait, what?”
“Yeah, this morning. Con knocked on the door before he left my room to go to his. He was still in his clothes from the night before but with just-fucked hair. It only took Con about thirty seconds to put it together and that was the first thing out of Griff’s mouth.”
“So,” she takes a sip of her drink, “you think he deserves something else, but he’s in love with you?”
I nod.
“Are you in love with him?”
“Does it matter?”
“Yes, bitch, it fucking matters!”
“I don’t want to explain myself again today. Can we just eat tacos and watch Channing Tatum take off his clothes?”
“Fine. Only because I love you, though. We will be talking about it later though.”
“Thank you.”
We spend the next few hours brainlessly watching movies and binging on ice cream. By the end of the night, we’re both sporting tiny food babies sprawled out on my couch. She turns to me as she gathers her things to leave.
“I want you to know on a serious note, that I support you completely in whatever way you choose to handle your life. I mean, let’s be honest, every man is easily replaced by three things.”
“What are those?” I ask bracing for something ridiculous to come out her mouth.
“A weighted blanket, vibrator, and good book.” She says while she hugs me at the door.
I laugh and wave goodbye once she gets on the elevator. I’m just about to close my door when a hand wraps around it and pushes it open. I look up into the stormy green eyes of my older brother.
“We need to talk.” He brushes past me.
“I don’t have it in me to talk more about this tonight.”
He pats his pockets and looks around. “I’m all out of fucks to give. We’re talking about it.”
“You’re such an asshole.”
“Guilty as charged, ice princess. And you are a liar.”
“I never lied to you.”
