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The guy looks fucking enthralled.
Oh, this is good.
This is so damn good.
“Something caught your attention over there, Nicolas?”
With a cough, Nick rips his gaze away from Red, the curl of his lips flattening as he scowls and shakes his head. Leaning back against the counter, he aims for nonchalance but I don’t think a force in the world could keep his eyes from drifting back toward the girl.
And I’m pretty sure he hates it.
Ben, oblivious to how unusually flustered my friend seems to be, breaks his rare display of silence with a crooked lip and pale, raised brow. “Is that your girlfriend? She’s cute.”
Nick scoffs in unison with my barked laugh. “Nicky doesn’t do girlfriends,” I explain teasingly, although I wonder if right now, he’s regretting that stipulation.
“You don’tdogirlfriends?”
“Nope,” is Nick’s simple answer to Ben’s disbelieving inquiry, his blank tone contrasted by glimmering gold irises.
Ben practically exudes mischief as he cocks his head at Nick. “Boyfriends?”
With a low laugh, Nick copies Ben’s stance, tilting his head and crooking a brow. “You hitting on me, kid?”
“You wish, Grandpa.”
5
JACKSON
“I can’t believeyou’ve done this.”
For the third time since we arrived at Sun Valley’s only decent pub, Nick huffs loudly, slumping in the booth we claimed with his arms crossed over his chest, muttering something in angry Portuguese before following up in English. “This is a terrible fucking idea.”
Across from Nick and I, Cass sighs like one might at a child throwing a tantrum. “He needed somewhere to live.”
“Dorms exist.”
“Our spare room is nicer.”
“He’s achild.”
“You’re dramatic.”
“Ben is nice,” I interject before the eye-poking, hair-pulling segment of their argument begins. I ignore Nick’s scoff as I crook a brow at Cass. “But you should’ve asked us first.”
“I didn’t think it would be a big deal!”
“You didn’t think it would be a big deal,” Nick repeats, eyes rolling toward the ceiling. “Inviting a fetus to live with us is a big deal.”
“He’s seventeen!”
Nick blinks. “Exactly.”
“Look,” Cass starts and God, don’t I recognize that troublesome tone. “I know anyone under the age of twenty seems like a child compared to you-”
“I am notold.”
“You know who says that? Old people.”
