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“Relax, Whitney,” Chloe says before shooting a look at Trey as if to sayreally?
“We’re together, everyone just has to get with it.” Trey gives Whitney a pointed look as if he was talking specifically to her.
“WHAT!?” Whitney blinks her eyes several times before shaking her head. “I don’t believe this. For how long? Until you come later?” I wince at her harsh words.
“Whitney.” I give her a look and she narrows her eyes at me. Because although I was thinking something similar, it’s really not our business.
“Areyoukidding me? You have zero room to talk about anything.” She looks at Chloe. “Bathroom.”
“Whitney…”
“Move it,” she says through gritted teeth. “Now.”
Chloe rolls her eyes and gets up before casting a glance at Trey. “Can you order me a vodka soda, please?”
“Of course.” She smiles and moves to his side of the table before pressing her lips to his quickly. When she pulls away, they’re both staring at each other with the goofiest smiles on their faces. Whitney’s wide eyes find mine and we share a look of confusion before Chloe and Whitney leave for the bathroom.
As soon as they’re out of earshot, I stare at my brother prepared to not only berate him for ruining the moment with Whitney but for whatever the fuck has happened in the last hour since we left Whitney’s parents’ house. “Okay, first of all, you have the worst fucking timing. I told you, I’d let you know when to meet us and second of all, what the fuck?”
“Are you kidding me right now?” Chloe is touching up her makeup and not even paying me any attention as I pace the length of the thankfully empty women’s room. “You and Trey? This isn’t a good idea!”
“Well, isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black?” she says as she pulls her mascara wand away from her lashes to cast me a sideways glance. “I’m fairly certain what I’m doing isn’t hurting anyone. Or what would you call what Trey and I just walked in because you looked about five seconds from mounting him in the booth?” She looks at my engagement ring and then back at me.
“We’ll come back to your judgment in a second. It’s going to hurtyou,” I respond, referring to what she said about how starting things up again with Trey wouldn’t hurt anyone.
She puts her mascara back in her purse and lets out a sigh. “Maybe it does. But I still love him and maybe I don’t owehimthe chance he’s asking for…” She shrugs. “But I owe it to me.” She leans against the sink and crosses her arms. “There’s a reason I still love him, Whitney. He didn’t do anythingtome. I broke things off with him.”
“Because he wouldn’t commit!” Memories of her being so depressed she refused to get out of bed come charging back into my head.These Price brothers did a fucking number on us both.
“But that’s something that can change. It’s not as if he was too into his work or slept with someone else or he wasn’t good in bed. The problem was that he wasn’t ready formorea year ago and now he is. I’m available, he’s available. He wants tobewith me, Whitney. I’ve wanted this for so long and maybe things don’t work out but I just want to give it a chance.”
I sigh because it actually does make sense and if Trey is actually willing to commit to her this could actually be great for the both of them. They were, at one point, very good for each other. “I just don’t want you to get hurt again.”
“And I love that and you. You’re my best friend Whitney, you always have been but I’myourolder cousin. You don’t have to look out for me all the time.” She puts her hands on my shoulders and gives them both a squeeze before dropping her hands. “Now circling back to my ‘judgment,’” she says, using air quotes. “What did I just walk in on? What are you doing here alone with him? Whitney, you know this is a bad idea.”
“Well, he showed up at my house so thank you for warning me that he’d left my parents’ house. I could have assumed that he’d come after me but I wasn’t anticipating him surprising me at the house I share with my fiancé!”
She puts a hand over her mouth in shock. “Oh my God, really!?”
“Yes, and Parker saw him on the door camera and—”
She puts a hand on her forehead. “Wait, you let him in?”
“No! I saw him pull up because I was waiting for you to show up and I met him outside before he could even get to the door.”
“So how did Parker see? I understand if he rang the doorbell because I get those alerts too from theBlinkapp but… how would he have seen…?”
“I guess he got an alert when I opened the door?”
Chloe narrows her eyes at me. “Why? You can turn that off, you know.”
I feel like I can hear where her thoughts are going and I really don’t want to go down this road with her about that too. “Chlo…”
“It just reads a little… controlling.”
“Parker is not controlling, he just worries!”
“Worries that you realize you’re out of his league and you leave him?” She snorts. Like the rest of my family, Chloe wasn’t necessarily Parker’s biggest fan. But hers more came from just not really meshing with his personality. She was exuberant and loud and bubbly and Parker could really only handle her in small doses.Well that and the fact that he’d cheated on me.
