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Okay. Let me know if that changes. In the meantime, I’ll let Coach know tomorrow that you and Cam won’t be at practice.
“The lawyer said that Craig took a video, right?” Mali asks. “So, what if you pretend to be into him again? That way you could get his phone and erase the video.”
That grabs my attention and I look up from my phone to glare at Mali. “If that motherfucker comes anywhere near her,I’llbe in jail next to Cam.”
Mali pouts. “Come on, you can’t shut your inner caveman off for a second to help save your best friend?”
I chuckle humorlessly as I put my phone down. “Do you really thinkCamwould be on board for pimping his sister out to her sleazy ex?”
She grimaces, realizing she’s got nothing. “Okay, I’ll count that as a veto.”
I go back to texting Owen, letting him know I appreciate it, when Mali curses under her breath. My brows raise as I watch her and Laiken gaze at each other as if they’re having a silent conversation, and I am not in the loop.
“We can’t,” Laiken tells her.
Mali smiles sadly. “I can’t think of any other option, can you?”
Running her hands over her face, Laiken groans. “No. Fuck!”
“Uh, one of you want to fill me in?”
They both look at me and then each other. I didn’t know it was possible to feel so much like a third wheel while in a room with my own girlfriend. Whatever it is, they already know I’m not going to like it.
Mali holds her hands up. “You have to be the one to tell him. I got his best friend thrown in jail. I’m not his favorite person right now.”
Laiken’s head drops as she sighs, and when she turns it to the side to look at me, I realize I won’t justnot like it—I’m going to fucking hate it.
WE STAND IN THEvery public park, with kids running around and moms bitching about other moms. Someone should really record this shit, then put them all in a room with a big screen and press play. They could sell tickets and popcorn. It could break the world record for the biggest catfight.
I lean against the picnic table, my arms crossed in front of my chest. If it were possible to trade places with Cam right now, I’d do it. Then again, depending how this goes, I may end up in there with him.
“H,” Laiken says, resting her hand on my arm, but I can’t look at her right now.
It’s not that she did anything wrong. I know this is the only option we have that even has a chance at working. But that’s what I hate most about it. It’s notherI’m angry at—it’s myself.
“He could have stayed home,” Mali tells her.
I scoff. “And let her around him alone? Not a fucking chance.”
“She’snotalone. She has me,” she argues.
“You’re biased.”
“Stop bickering,” Laiken chastises us both. “I think that’s him.”
Turning my head, I see the one person I dislike more than Isaac coming toward us. The one person I never wanted to see walk back into our lives.
Montgomery fucking Rollins.
“Hey,” Mali greets him with a hug.
“Hey, Mal,” he replies.
When he goes to say hi to Laiken, he stops, and his eyes meet mine. I wait to see if he’s going to try hugging her too, but he must have some sense of self-preservation because he nods his hello.
Moneybags put his thinking cap on today.
“Sorry for making you come out here,” Monty says as he looks around. “I had to be sure this wasn’t a setup so Hayes could jump me.”
