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I couldn’t imagine Chloe cleaning in the tiny dress she was still wearing. Why wouldn’t she change? Her massive wardrobe had to include something more comfortable than sequins. I didn’t understand Chloe on the best of days, so I had no hope of keeping up while sleep-deprived and horny.
Goosebumps raised on my arms as the cold night air hit my skin. I was a furnace most of the time, so if I was cold, Chloe had to be freezing. Despite the frigid January temps, she hesitated outside her door.
“What’s going on, Chloe?”
Chloe huffed out a breath. “I don’t want you to get the wrong idea.”
The guilt solidified into a hard knot in my stomach. My life would be a lot easier if I could write her off as a silly party girl, but I’d seen the parts of her she only let out when she thought no one was looking. When it came to Chloe, I was always looking.
“You came to me,” I reminded her.
The edge of her lips quirked up, and she tilted her head in assent.
She led me through the dark apartment to her room. I expected a spider or broken furniture, but when she flipped on the light, my brows rose. Fury ignited, hot and fast.
A lanky guy with an unfortunate target tattoo on his back lay face down in Chloe’s bed. Naked.
I almost turned around and went right back home. “You want me to get rid of your hookup?”
She groaned. “He’s not my hookup.”
I didn’t want the details. The football season may be over, but I was pretty sure Coach would still make me run until I puked if I beat the shit out of a random dude in Eva’s apartment. Don’t ask me how, but Coach had a soft spot for Eva. Her influence was everywhere.
Despite my irrational rage at the guy, I tempered my voice for Chloe. “Need me to move him over so you have space?”
“Dammit, Noah. It’s not like that. I don’t know this guy, and I definitely didn’t invite him into my bed. All I want to do is sleep, but I’m not about to lock myself in the apartment with a random drunk dude who may or may not murder me before morning.”
It was on the tip of my tongue to offer her my bed for the rest of the night. Talk about bad decisions. Her eyes sharpened like she’d read my mind, or maybe my face, but even I wasn’t that stupid.
I rubbed the back of my neck, markedly calmer knowing she didn’twantthe guy in her room. “Eva’s not here?”
She sagged in relief. “No. Mysterious booty call. Can you please use your giant muscles to get rid of this guy?”
My jaw clenched, really unhappy with my role, but I moved toward the bed anyway.
What was I supposed to do with him? We couldn’t leave him outside to freeze his balls off, and I definitely wasn’t bringing him into our apartment with Riley and Mac’s mystery girl there.
With some effort, I hauled the guy up by his armpits, trying my best to ignore the full frontal on display. He grumbled something about trolls, and his breath knocked me back a step. Once I blinked away the acrid tears, I got a good look at his face.
Thank fuck, I recognized him. Miller something. Second string kicker. Not really a surprise he was a football player considering Eva’s social circle. He was a freshman, so he’d be living in the athlete dorm. I could drop him off in the lobby with a spare blanket.
Chloe held the doors for me as I muscled him out of her apartment and across the parking lot to my truck. He didn’t stir as I heaved him into my passenger seat, and I made a mental note to scrub down the leather tomorrow.
As soon as the door closed, he slumped against it, snoring lightly. Chloe followed me around the truck to the driver’s side, pulling me to a stop before I could climb inside. She searched my face, and my stupid heart took off at her close proximity.
“What are you going to do with him?”
I raised a brow. “Worried abouthimnow?”
“D would never forgive me if you murdered someone on my behalf.”
“Bold of you to assume they’d find the body.”
She scowled at me, and I relented.
“He’s a freshman football player. I’m going to return him to the athlete dorm where he can sleep off his bad decisions in public.”
The breeze picked up, and she shivered. “Do you want me to come with you?”
