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I lift my head. “I made a mistake.”
Nic gives me ano shitlook.
“What do I do?” I whisper.
He slides the bottle of whiskey toward himself. “Something big.”
I groan and drop my head again. “Like what?”
“I have an idea,” he says after a moment. “You aren’t going to like it, but Timothy…it’s going to work on him. Trust me. I’ll even cover all the expenses.”
I’m so desperate, I agree. Nic refuses to tell me what his plan is, but I don’t care. Timothy’s worth it.
Chapter thirty-six
Timothy
Nicisuptosomething. The surprise trip to Vegas already had my Spidey senses tingling, but the way he’s grinning like a dick after checking his phone…
Suspicious.
Whatever. I can roll with anything he throws at me.
I didn’t want to come. It feels shitty to leave Mina back in LA, even if we aren’t anything at the moment. The idea I won’t be there if she needs me is a hard one to digest, but Nic hit me with everything: we haven’t done anything like this in years, he needs a change of scenery after dealing with the divorce, I need a change of scenery after having my heart and head broken, et cetera. Mina, he said, would be hanging out with Danny and Freya, so I wouldn’t need to worry about her.
Still, it’s not me with her.
So. Vegas.
No surprise, we’re in the penthouse suite at the Palazzo.
Big surprise, Nic doesn’t drag me to a strip club. We have dinner at the hotel and he’s busy smirking at his phone, which is just plain weird.
“Who are you texting?” I ask.
“Nobody.”
He looks gleeful. Nic never looks gleeful when he’s talking to someone.
“You’re up to something.”
He puts his phone away and straightens. “I am not.”
“You are.”
“Excuse me,” a young man says, a bit hesitantly.
“Oh, look, a fan!” Nic sounds delighted to sign an autograph.
He’sreallyup to something. Either this is an elaborate surprise boys’ night out on the strip and the boys have yet to show, or my whole family is about to descend on us.
Except that would mean Jessie, and Nic wouldn’t be smiling if she were here. And he’d have to invite her with the rest of them or he’d be in deep shit with my mom…
My phone chimes and since Nic is chatting like someone gave him a new personality, I take a look.
Danny: Hey, bro. Freya made you something.
A picture comes through, and it’s Freya proudly holding up a paper crown. With Mina.
