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Jay pulls my chair out, and I take the seat next to Alec, who’s sporting a suit complete with aBirthday Boypin clipped to it, his highlighted hair pulled back into a man bun. Either this wasn’t a surprise dinner or Jay spilled the beans. I’m guessing the latter. It isn’t easy to keep secrets from his husband.
Jay straightens out his suit before settling back in his chair and throws me a brooding look, motioning my way with his glass of red wine. “You’re lucky the hospital was a madhouse yesterday. Otherwise, you would’ve received quite the interrogation.”
“What are you talking about?” I ask, looking around for our waiter.
“Is there a reason you told the man you stitched up yesterday that you were my mistress?”
Oh shit.
Of course Gage questioned Jay about my hinting at having an affair with him.
“What?” Alec cuts in, glancing over at Jay with humor. “You switching teams again? I thought your experimenting days were over?”
I sigh. “He was hitting on me. It was the first thought that came to mind. Sorry.”
Alec squeezes my shoulder. “Oh, honey, you can use my husband as an excuse anytime that happens.”
“Nuh-uh. Don’t youoh, honeyher,” Jay says, causing Alec’s attention to flicker between his husband and me. “She’s lying.” His coffee-colored eyes level on me. “It’s him, isn’t it? He’s back.”
I gulp, nodding. “Unfortunately.”
“Is it unfortunate?” he counters. “You don’t think it could be fate? I watched him with you. I saw the lust, the love. He barely took his eyes off you, and I’m positive he wanted to murder me after you told him we were sleeping together. Why don’t you explain why you did what you did, and you two could reconnect? If nothing else, be friends.”
“He hates my guts,” I answer. “There’s nothing I can say or do that will restore what we had.”
“Whoa, whoa,” Alec draws out, holding his hands up. “I’mma need someone to catch me up. I’m out of the loop here, and you know it’s always critical I am in the center of the loop.”
I met Alec during our residency at the hospital after graduating from nursing school. We instantly clicked. Jay was our attending doctor. He and Alec hooked up one night after a holiday party and have been inseparable since. When the news broke that they were dating, Alec was moved to geriatrics, and Jay received two weeks of my silent treatment for taking my hospital bestie from me.
Spending time with them made me trust in love again. They ignore the snide comments and dirty looks and relentlessly love each other. Jay is the sensible one. Alec is the overdramatic. They balance each other out in a world where it’s necessary.
“Gage,” I breathe out. “He’s back in town.”
“Gage?” Alec shrieks, causing a few patrons to look at us. “TheGage?”
“The one and only.”
“Hot damn, sweetie. Things are about to turn complicated for you.” He squirms in his chair, and this gossip will mean more to him than the expensive birthday present I bought. “Now, you’d better tell me every detail.”
He doesn’t get any details until the waitress comes and takes my lemon drop martini order.
* * *
“Isn’t this quite the surprise?”
The sharp, familiar, and masculine voice startles me.
Chills shoot up my back as I jerk around to confront Gage. He’s only a few feet away from me in the dimly lit and narrow hallway that leads to the restrooms, yet it seems like he’s looming over me.
I don’t respond right away. Instead, I give him the silent treatment while roaming my eyes down his six-foot-three frame of gorgeousness. Just because I hate the man doesn’t mean he doesn’t make my panties wet. Gage is and always will be the most attractive man I’ve ever seen.
I grew up with him sporting basketball jerseys and athletic shorts. This dressed-up version might compete with the sight of him in his police uniform. I’ve been pleasuring myself at night with the memory of how desirable he looked in it. Gage sporting black jeans and a sleek, tight gray button-up will sponsor tonight’s self-given orgasm.
“Keep eye-fucking me, babe. It’s satisfying, knowing I’m something you can no longer have.”
His comment smacks me out of my eye-fucking trance, and I’m positive that this isn’t a surprise to him. Gage is back, and it seems he’s taken a new hobby of making my life miserable.
“What are you doing here?” I snap.
