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JACE
“Jace is mine.”
I smile like a fool, even though I feel miserable with a black coffee in my hand as Roey and I take a cab to JFK.
Sobering up after being yanked out of a great party sucks.
Even more so when we stand in line through the security check-in for the red-eye flight, and I can’t focus on anything Roey says about our current case because I get a message from Lu.
Lu: Your work sucks! Tito is drunk. He’s staying over. I’m cleaning. Pushkin is sleeping by the door to your room.
A sad emoji follows. Then a picture of her and Tito on the couch, heads hanging low, pouting.
Laughter escapes me, but my heart clenches with so much disappointment that I feel like quitting my job.
It’s booze, I know, the abrupt cut off of the dopamine and serotonin.
Me: I’ll be back soon.
Lu: Can’t wait.
Lu: Hurry up!
Me: Tito owes you breakfast in bed. Remind him.
Unknown: Your buddy, Mr. I’m-Rambo-with-fuck-me-eyes, didn’t take our Miss Becky home. So technically, you lost the bet.
I laugh. So, Lu gave Tito my number.
Me: He was ready, trust me. Her loss. And yours. You owe Lu breakfast.
I follow the message with a devil emoji.
Tito: I’ll wait for you to come back. We’ll have it together. The three of us.
A winking emoji follows.
The guy never gives up. I laugh and forward the message to Lu.
Lu: Ignore him. You are mine, Jace Reed. Can you just come home soon? Pleeeeease?
Boom!
My heart slams in my chest, and I drink half a cup of my third coffee in one gulp to make sure I’m almost sober and I didn’t just dream it up.
Lu is drunk. Tomorrow, it’ll be forgotten. Yet I can’t stop staring at the messages and start typing the response,Miss you already.
Then correct it.
Me: Miss you guys already.
I wishIcould serve her breakfast in bed, and other things…
Inevitably, a scene fromBeautiful Vicecomes to mind.
“I love breakfast in bed,” Konstantin grunts, slowly pulling the sheet off my naked body. “Spread your legs for me, wife.”
Bro…
