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Alright, so maybe it wasn’t arealemergency but her mixed up letters and overuse of exclamation marks made it feel like that.
“Text you?” It’s my turn to playfully tease back. “Isn’t that that thing you were supposed to doto methis mornin’? Where are last night’s game scores? You know it killed me havin’ to miss the first official game of the season.”
“Uh…you might wanna check that phone again, Cowboy, because Idefinitelysent them, along with a victory selfie, and a series of GIFs regarding my excitement over our boyscrushing it.”
“Yeah?!”
“Fuck. Yeah.Three to one.”
Her excitement causes me to grin wider.
Laugh louder.
Become even more anxious to see her face in the next twenty-four hours.
“Think Blu will mind if you watch tonight’s game while he drives?”
“Doubt it.”
“Puck drops in thirty, which means-”
“I have thirty to catch up for our streamin’ date.”
“Exactly.”
“Then let me get off the phone and get to it then, Angel Cake.”
She offers me one last snigger prior to playfully scolding. “Is that any way to say goodbye?”
“You know I don’t say goodbye to you.”
Nope.
Never.
Nothing that permanent will ever leave my lips when it comes to her.
“Stay sweet, Angel Cake.”
“Stay safe, Cowboy.”
The instant I end the call, I shift my attention upward where it’s met by a mischievous smirk and more headshaking.
Yeah.
I’m very much so in love with my best friend, and she may be the only person on the whole goddamn planet who doesn’t seem to know that.
So, what am I supposed to do?
Just fucking tell her?
Uh…no.
Fuck. No.
I may not be afraid to risk it all to save an innocent person but losing whatwe havescares me more than anything else in the entire world. And if protecting it means having to spend the rest of my life – outside of us – buried in expensive booze, random one-nightstands, and death-defying assignments, then so be it.
Chapter 2
