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“Well.” Ally went from looking not happy to looking uncomfortable. Ally rarely looked uncomfortable and I knew I wasn’t going to like what was coming. “The thing is, see…”
“Spit it out!” I snapped.
“Okay, you know about a year ago when Eddie and Lee stopped talking to each other?”
“No, I don’t know. I was avoiding Lee remember? I told you, like, a million times.”
“Well, about a year ago, Eddie and Lee stopped talking to each other.”
“Great, thanks,” I said.
“Anyway,” Ally went on. “Hank told me that Eddie’s had a thing for you for a while, though he’s kept his distance because everyone knew how you felt about Lee and everyone was waiting for Lee to do something about it. It’s been kind of a sticky situation, seeing as they’re best friends.”
Dear Lord in Heaven.
Just what I needed, my life to be that much more fucked up.
“And?” I asked.
“Last year, Eddie lost patience and told Lee if he didn’t take care of business, Eddie would move in.”
Holy crap!
“No way,” I breathed.
Ally nodded.
“Why didn’t you tell me this?” I asked.
“You were avoiding Lee, and Eddie’s hot. I thought if I told you about Eddie you might give up on Lee and I’d never have a niece named after me.”
I looked at the hit man, who was watching us closely, and told him, “Don’t think in the crazy-ass soap opera that is my life that I’ve forgotten about you. Or you,” I said to Rosie.
I stared them both down and they both settled in. Clearly I was looking like a woman who wanted to be given the excuse to shoot someone.
“How long has Eddie had this thing?” I asked Ally.
Ally shrugged. “According to Hank, it ran parallel with your thing for Lee.”
Holy shit.
“How parallel?”
“Apparently, last year was not the first fight they had over you. Remember when Lee showed up to pick us up from that haunted house and he had blood on his shirt and we could tell his nose had been bleeding? We saw Eddie later at Andrea’s party and he was shitfaced and his eye was swollen?”
I remembered, kind of. It was my senior year. I was seventeen. Lee had blood on his shirt a lot back then, and Eddie was also a brawler. I thought they’d been in a fight against other people, which happened a lot. Not with each other.
“Me?” I asked.
“You. That wasn’t the first, and obviously not the last,” Ally answered.
I didn’t know what to do with this information. I didn’t even want toknowthis information.
“I think it’s time to step into Denial Zone,” I told Ally.
“That would be my advice,” Ally replied.
I was thinking that being with Lee, I was going to spend a lot of time in Denial Zone.
