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It’s eating me up inside, so I have to speak up. “Any idea why Travis would be with Mia in the first place?”
Courtney’s eyes widen as she looks at Drew for a reaction, but he doesn’t give one.
“None that makes any sense.” He shrugs, keeping his eyes locked on the screen and paying us no attention at all. It’s such a dude reaction.
“You don’t seem too concerned that your friend was in a car with your girlfriend or that she was naked in his back seat.”
He cracks a weak smile. “Well, I know he wasn’t fooling around with her, so I’m not that concerned.” He pauses a moment. “And technically, she’s myex-girlfriend now, unless she magically changed her mind again.” The sadness in his tone doesn’t go unnoticed.
I ignore the ex-girlfriend comment, but Courtney perks up at the mention of it.
“Travis may be a lot of things, but he’d never betray me like that,” he states with certainty.
“Bro code,” Courtney adds, and I glare at her without Drew noticing.
“There are just certain people you don’t fool around with, and he’d never do something like that behind my back.”
Certain people like an ex-girlfriend or little sister…?
A dagger shoots right into my chest as I hear Drew talking about the strong friendship and bond he has with Travis.
Courtney flashes me a look, and I know we’re both thinking it. If we weren’t all sitting together, Courtney would be swooning over Drew a lot harder. He’s clueless as to how he affects girls, especially Courtney. Even though she was with Toby, and Drew’s been on and off with Mia, she’s always had a little thing for him. And she takes every opportunity to remind me.
Even before Toby and she were on the path to breakup city, Courtney had crushed hard on him. Shortly after we first met, she came with me to his house and nearly walked into a beam the first time she saw him.
“Are you all right?” he asked her, genuinely concerned.
She blinked a few times, and Drew took a step toward her.
“Fine,” she finally said. “Just wasn’t looking where I was going.”
He nodded and flashed one of his infamous charming smiles. Drew doesn’t have to do much to get a girl’s attention with his dark, shaggy hair and tattoos lining his arms and chest. He’s built like a rock and was the reason guys wouldn’t come to the house back in high school. He looked terrifying, but I knew he had a soft side, too.
“Stop looking at my brother like you want to rip off his clothes!” I groaned once Drew was out of hearing distance. My friends swooning over him was something I had gotten used to in high school, and somehow, it continued to happen in college.
Her eyes remained locked on him as he walked down the hall to his bedroom. “I want to do a lot more than that…” Her lips tilted up. “And those handcuffs—”
“All right, I get it,” I said, cutting her off. “You want to go all Fifty Shades on his ass.”
She chuckled. “Hot cop fantasy.” She shrugged unapologetically.
I smile, remembering the moment. She’d been completely devoted to Toby and would never act on anything outside of their relationship, but now that there was no relationship, I hope she’d finally allow herself to go out and have some fun. She needs to meet people and see what life is like without a relationship status determining her every move. With Drew being available, it might take her mind off the dirty breakup.
“Are you the friends of Mia Montgomery?” A doctor walks up to us, and we all look up.
“Yes,” Drew says, standing. Courtney and I both stand next to him.
“She’s pretty drowsy from the pain medication we gave her, but you can see her one at a time for a few minutes.”
“What about the driver, Travis King?” I ask before he can walk away.
“He’s on some pretty heavy painkillers as well, but a few minutes should be okay.”
“Just enough time for you to put a pillow over his head,” Drew teases. The doctor gives a disapproving look but doesn’t comment.
“That’s pretty harsh,” I say, following him.
He chuckles. “Sorry, I didn’t know you two became best friends since I left.”
