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I gasp and run a nervous hand through my hair.
“I was talking about Nolan.”
Leo purses his lips in a sorry pout.
“You know he will never see you likethat.”
My chest tightens and I look in spite of myself for Nolan at the bar, noting that he has left the room.
“I know.”
And the last few days have only strengthened this conviction. Misstep or not. Nolan is Nolan.
I am like a sister.
One of his best friends.
“How did you know?”
“I wasn’t sure,” he says seriously. “Let’s say you just confirmed it to me.”
He waves to where I dropped my drink and I glare at him.
He bluffed and I folded.
“Don’t look at me like that,” he chuckles. “I had doubts. You’ve seemed distant lately, and you wouldn’t be the only one to fall for the Jones charm.”
His joke is supposed to lighten the mood, but it provokes an even greater resentment in me. Against him, for setting me up, and against Nolan, for everything else. He doesn’t have time to add anything else when a loud group of guys walk around our table and a hand lands on my shoulder. I jump as I turn to the intruder and a guy who looks familiar, but I can’t place smiles at me.
“We know each other, don’t we?”
He smiles at me with all his teeth, turns to Leo who has remained silent, and withdraws his hand.
“Sorry, man, is that your girl?”
“Sister,” he corrects. “And you are?”
“Andrew Peals.”
He holds out a firm grip, not breaking his pleasant smile. I frown, still unable to understand the reason why he joins us as if we were old acquaintances. He’s hot, I can’t deny it: brown hair cut very short, muscular chest, big thin legs, Colgate smile. But really, I don’t remember him.
“We have a class together,” he continues, coming closer to me. “With Mrs. Ellen. Contract law.”
I immediately nod my head, finally realizing why his face looked so familiar.
“Right.”
“Can I buy you a drink?” he suggests. “Unless your brother would prefer me to stay as far away as possible?”
He turns his attention back to Leo and I can’t help but laugh. He has no idea who he is talking to and I love that. I feel like I saw Corey a few months earlier and at the time it had the same effect on me.
“The brother accepts,” Leo says in a neutral tone. “However, avoid the tall blond at the end of the room. Him, he might want to redo your portrait.”
“The captain of the Terriers?”
Andrew frowns, staring at Edgar from afar.
“He’s herrealbrother,” Leo says casually. “I’m the roommate, but if you hurt her, I’ll still beat your face off.”
