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“I’m not that fucking stupid. Although if it will help, I’m all for it.”
“Jesus fucking Christ, this is going to be harder than I thought.”
“What is?”
Leaning forward, he rests his elbows on his knees and holds my eyes.
“Tell me the truth, Nico,” he begs. “Do you want her?”
“In my bed, yeah. She’s fucking—”
“No,” he booms, making me flinch like a fucking pussy. “I don’t mean in your fucking bed, Nic. I mean in your life. Do you want her? Or just what’s between her thighs?”
“Like, forever?” I ask, my face screwing up like I’m chewing on a bitter lemon.
The thoughtalone is fear-inducing.
Spending the rest of my life with one woman. One pussy.
Yeah, the best one you’ve ever had, and the only one you’ve wanted since you got a taste of it that night in Hades.
“Yes, dickhead. Forever.”
My lips open and close like a fucking goldfish, but no words come out as I sit there staring at my smug-as-fuck best friend.
“You tell me that you want her, that you’re serious about her, and I’ll do everything I can to help you. But if this really is all just about the fucked-up game the two of you have going on, then you’re on your own. I won’t stand by and watch as you hurt someone my girl loves like a sister.”
“So you’re choosing her side in all of this?” I ask, needing confirmation of what I’m hearing.
“I’m not choosing fuck all here, Nico. Although if I were, after everything you’ve done, I can’t deny I’d be leaning her way right now. You fucked up. All you’ve been doing since the night we first met them is fucking up.”
“She doesn’t want me,” I argue.
This thing between us worked—or not, depending on how you look at it—because neither of us wants anything serious out of this.
“Are you sure?” he asks, effectively tugging the rug out from beneath me.
“Uh…”
“See?” he says, throwing his hands up in frustration. “You don’t even know what she wants because you’ve never taken a second to listen to her.”
“Nothing wrong with preferring to make her scream,” I argue.
“You need to make a decision,” he says, pushing to his feet. “You either want her, or you don’t. Make her yours, or let her go.”
Fire licks at my insides as he offers me that ultimatum.
“Oh, so it’s come to that now, has it?”
“Yeah, Nico. It has.”
* * *
Toby hung around for long enough for me to eat the panini he brought, but the atmosphere between us was less than pleasant.
He’s pissed at me, I get it. I’m fucking pissed at myself for putting both of us in here, but there’s fuck all I can do about it now.
He left with very few words said between us. He didn’t need to tell me where he was going. It was obvious that he’d prefer to spend time with Jodie and Brianna than me.
