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He’d thought about, wondered about Becca the whole time.
“What the hell happened at the party, Toby?” Beau asked. Okay, more or less growled.
“It…didn’t go according to plan,” Toby said. He gave Savannah and Daniel another one of those looks that said there was more to it.
“Meaning?” Beau pressed. Definitely with a growl this time.
“Luke didn’t ask her out,” Daniel said.
Oh, really. “Dumbass,” Beau replied.
Daniel nodded.
“Is she okay about it?” he asked.
“Well, that’s kind of why she texted you to come over,” Savannah said.
He felt his damned gut clench. He did not want to hear about this from Becca. He didn’t want to hear that she was disappointed or have her ask him what was wrong with her that Luke didn’t notice her. He could not have this discussion with her. “What now?”
“She’s upstairs.”
“Is she…crying or something?” He’d never seen Becca cry. He wasn’t sure he could handle that.
Savanna smiled. “No. She’s not crying.”
He blew out a breath. Thank God. “So what then?”
“She has a new plan. And she needs your input.”
He already hated the plan. For one thing, he suspected it had to do with Luke. For another, he suspected it had to do with glitter. “Is that what this is all about?” He gestured at the table.
“We’re having a New Year’s Eve party,” Toby said with a grin, holding up a glittery cut out of a 2.
“Another party, huh?”
“Yep.”
“And is she inviting Luke?”
“Yep.”
“And she wants my opinion about what to do with him once he’s there, right?”
Toby and Savannah and Daniel all said, “Yep,” at the same time.
Well,hell.
Fine. He could tell her what to do with Luke. Nothing. A big fat nothing. Becausehewanted her. He was going to be there on New Year’s Eve.
“Okay.” He started toward the hallway, but looked back. “Any lattes today?”
“Peppermint!” Toby said perkily.
“Great. Let’s do that.” What the hell? His whole life was changing right? He was going to tell Becca Bollier he was crazy about her. He might as well embrace peppermint lattes on the same day.
“You’ve got it.” Toby looked thrilled.
Beau climbed the steps to the second floor of the Bollier house. He’d been up here a few times to fix things for Maureen, but never with Becca. They just didn’t havethatkind of friendship. It felt strange coming up here and heading for her bedroom.
