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Taz beamed at me before slapping the bottom of my seat. “Pop a squat, our new family member.”
“Family member?” I was still in a daze.
“Who are you calling?” Bren was asking Heather.
“I’m calling someone to come and fill in here because this is what we know.” She held her hands out, addressing us. “Zeke got into a fight. He told Race that he’s in love with Ava—”
I squeaked, another wave of shock coming over me. Shock, but excitement, and then panic, and then—Heather said, “Which is not our place, and we’re very sorry that we’re the ones who broke that news because it should be a totally private and romantic moment with you and Allen, but I gotta admit that I kinda love the kid. Of course, he’d realize he was in love in the back of a squad car—”
“Squad car?” But wait. Yes. He’d been arrested. “I need to bail him out.”
“No.”
Heather spoke, but it was Bren who put my phone in front of me. I had no idea where it’d been. I’d thought I had it. Bren said, “He’s at the police station, and according to Heather, Godlike Lawyer Logan Kade—”
Heather added, “He got him out.”
Bren stopped, but added, relenting, “Okay. Godlike Lawyer Loganistaking care of Zeke. We have no idea why Zeke did what he did, but let’s all be honest. It’s not the first time Zeke’s been arrested, and it won’t be the last. This is kinda what he does.”
Taz shook her head, leaning forward to speak around me, “That’s not true, and no offense, Bren, but you don’t know the real Zeke. You never have.”
Bren was trying for patience here. I was in my whole glaze thing, but even I could tell that.
After a second of silence, Bren added, her voice a little tight, “Okay. Zeke was ‘the enemy’ when I first met him and through college, he remained an asshole, but I’ll admit that he became a likable asshole.”
Taz said, “He’s different with Blaise, and he’s been different for a long time. I’ve always thought Zeke’s been kinda lonely.”
My head folded, but I started to look in Taz’s direction. She wasn’t wrong. He’d admitted something similar to me, and I’d noticed it too. It was what made me start looking at him in a different light.
“Okay. I’ll—”
“I like the little dipshit myself,” Heather added, putting her phone away. “And we have someone coming to take over for Ava.”
I lifted my head up. “Zeke’s in love with me.”
“You two have been living together and bonking for two months. This is actually surprising to you?”
It was. It really was.
“I think it’s great.”
I gave Tasmin a small smile.
“Me too.” Heather gave me a smile, but hers was wide and proud. “Now. We need to make as many of those vodka spritzers as we can before Derek gets back.”
“You called Derek?”
“Told him it was sort of an emergency. We needed a girls’ night. He’ll be here in ten.”
Ten minutes. The bar was not going to be tended to for ten minutes. That couldn’t happen. I started to stand up.
“No!”
“No.”
“What are you doing?”
I paused at all of their reactions. “Shock aside, I can still work. I’ll make those drinks—”
