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It’d feel real coming from mine.
Kai draped his arm over his shoulder and gave him a soft smile. My stomach clenched. It was the one he normally reserved for me. “All good.”
There was an awkward pause before Luca clapped his hands together. “Okay, let’s head on out back before Ollie burns everything.”
My eyes followed Kai as he followed Luca to the garden. His arm didn’t leave Tristan’s shoulders.
He hadn’t even said hello.
Numbness was pricking all over my skin, my arms hanging by my side. When had things reached this stage between us?
Had I lost Kai in every way possible?
My heart felt like it was cracking in two. Maybe I should just leave. If Kai felt so uncomfortable around me that he couldn’t evengreetme, perhaps I shouldn’t be here.
Maybe this was the beginning of the end.
Oh, who was I kidding? That had happened the second I’d kissed him in front of ninety thousand fans.
A hand touched my arm, and I jumped out of my skin. “Fuck!”
“Sorry,” Arlo said. I’d forgotten I wasn’t alone. “You okay, Si?”
I started to smile before shaking my head and exhaling. “No. I’m fucking not.”
“We didn’t know he was bringing him.”
“Why would you?” I asked bitterly. “Looks like Kai is keeping lots of secrets these days.”
Arlo’s brow puckered. “I dunno. Something about it seems…off.”
Tristan’s perfect laugh filtered through the air. I glared in the direction it came from. “They seem pretty happy to me.”
I could feel Arlo’s gaze burning into the side of my face. “And you’re happy for them, yes?”
“Why wouldn’t I be?”
Arlo huffed a laugh. “Oh, I dunno. Could be the fact I thought for a second you were gonna punch Tristan in the face. Or maybe it’s how you’re glaring at the kitchen like you’re about to commit second-degree murder.”
“Second-degree?”
“Crime of passion,” Arlo elaborated.
I folded my arms over my chest. “That implies there’spassioninvolved.”
“You telling me there’s not?”
I spun to face Arlo helplessly. “I…I don’t fucking know. Okay? All Idoknow is that I took your stupid fucking advice, and now I can’t stop picturing me and Kai—”
Arlo winced. “Nope. Don’t need the details.”
I slumped back against the wall. “This is all your fault. Yours and Ruby’s. If you hadn’t opened your mouths, maybe I never would’ve realised. Now I want Kai, and I can’t fucking have him.”
Arlo leaned against the wall next to me. “And how does that make you feel?”
“Fucking hopeless,” I said hollowly. “Like someone has removed my heart and is using it for a punching bag.”
“Okay, I’m going to say two things, then I’mdoneinterfering. You’ll have to sort the rest of this bullshit out yourselves.”
