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“Neo was never obsessed. He was just very…”
“Cruel.”
“Cruel, but oddly sweet, and only to me. It makes me feel special.”
“Well, Ridge is similar in that aspect. He might go about things in a fucked-up way, but I really think he does it all in the name of love. Ridge would never hurt me, I know that. He cherishes the ground I walk on, for heaven's sake.”
“I can definitely see that. What’s going on with you and Maddox then?”
Chewing on my bottom lip, I look away again.
“Riley Cross! You’re fucking them both, aren’t you?”
I stare into the air and whistle, pretending I don’t hear her.
“You totally are!”
I have to tell her. I just have to. I won’t go into detail, but it’s on the tip of my tongue and I can’t bite it any longer. “All three of them.”
“Nooo,” she drawls. “Maddox, Ridge,andLev? You little whore.”
I laugh at the name she pegged for me because it’s the same thing I called her, teasingly, when she admitted she was screwing Crew, Jagger, and Neo, all at the same time.
“I am a whore.” I toss the rag across the floor and drop to my ass. “I’m a dirty fucking whore, Scar. And I have no idea what I’m going to do.”
“Then do nothing.”
“Come again?”
“Are you happy?”
“I mean, today I am.”
“Then, be happy. No one says you have to make any decisions, or choose. If they’re cool with it, then keep doing you.”
“But I feel like I'm playing games with their hearts. It feels so…wrong?”
“You’re not, though. If each one of those guys offers you something different, then just consider yourself lucky and accept what they have to give. I’m doing it, and there is no way in hell I could ever choose between my guys. The thought alone makes my heart hurt.”
“And if they make me choose?”
“Then you stand your ground and you tell them no. That gives them the option to walk away, and if they stay, then you know how much you really mean to them. Just be honest with them and take it one day at a time, babe.” She flings an arm around my shoulders. “That’s all you can do.”
One day at a time. I can do that.
* * *
I’m covered in grime and yuck and all I can think about is how nice a hot shower sounds. Going straight for my room, I halt when I see that the door is cracked open. Scar said she was meeting Crew at the library, so I know she’s not inside, and I’m certain I locked the door before I left for the cabin.
That leaves only one person.
I push the door open. “Ridge?” My eyes go right for my bed and I see him lying on his back, one leg hanging off the side, and his eyes closed. He looks so cute and peaceful when he sleeps. Taking care not to wake him, I tiptoe to my dresser and shuffle through my drawers, pulling out a pair of gray sweatpants and a cropped pink tee.
Creeping like a mouse, I make my way to the door.
“Going somewhere, Angel?”
My eyes shoot over my shoulder, and I smile. “Showers.”
