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I push aside him suggesting that Lee would still want me. That is not something I need floating around in my head. “And whatever happened to McKenzie?”
He laughs, but a motion in our peripheral grabs his attention. He laughs harder. “Here he comes.”
Miles is just about to tell me something when a lean, muscular body drops into the seat between us, wiggling his hips for each of us to slide over and make room.
Not granting Miles any attention, Lee turns his back on his friend to face me.
“Excuse me, but Miles and I were in the middle of something.” I gesture beyond Lee toward his best friend.
“Yeah, I’m out.” Miles stands and walks out of the VIP lounge. Of course he has Lee’s back.
Lee scoffs. “It can’t be as important as what we need to discuss.”
“There’s nothing to discuss, Lee. We said everything we had to say to each other years ago.”
His back straightens. “Hardly. You shut the door in my face and cut off all communication.” His knee brushes my bare thigh and a million volts of energy explode inside me.
“All right, correction. I said everything I needed to say.” I bring my glass to my lips and take a heavy pull on the straw.
Lee studies my profile while I attempt to appear relaxed, bopping to the music as though I can’t imagine anywhere else I’d rather be, even though the opposite is true.
After a few minutes, he says, “You look so different.”
My head whips in his direction. “So you’re saying I either looked like shit in college or I do now?”
He scoffs. “Not at all. You know I thought you were hot as fuck back then and it’s the same now.”
I tilt my head in a placating gesture. “Sure. Making me believe that you thought I was hot was part of the bet.”
His jaw sets and twitches. “You don’t just look different. You are different. You’re more… confident, outspoken. It’s good. Though I did really love my shy pie.”
I stiffen at the pet name he gave me in college. “Don’t,” I grind out between clenched teeth.
“Don’t what?”
“Don’t call me that.”
“Shy pie? Why not? You used to like the nickname.” He downs a healthy gulp of his drink and sets it on the table in front of us.
My eyes narrow. “Pet names are reserved for people who like each other. And I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but I’m not part of the Lee Burrows fan club anymore.”
“You used to be fucking president.”
I suck in a breath from the longing in his voice. He spoke the words as if he’d do anything to travel back to that time.
Well, too bad. He made his bed.
“I think I’m going to go to the restroom.” I signal to Bryce that I’m going to go to the bathroom.
Like the girl’s girl I thought she was, she starts to stand to come with me, but I wave her off and head out of the VIP lounge without a backward glance, only too happy to get some distance from the man who still makes my pulse race.
Seven
Lee
Shayna stomps off and I fail at trying not to stare at the way her dress clings to her ass. It took a Herculean effort not to let my gaze dip to her cleavage when she was sitting beside me.
Miles returns and watches Shayna leave. He shakes his head and sits. “You’re completely screwed.”
