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“Megs,” Lucy warns, eyes wide. “Don’t go upsetting her tonight. She’s a donkey on the edge.”
“I know. I know.” We follow Megan out of the shop and bundle into my car before heading back toward Mason’s building.
The guys are out at Elliot’s neighbour’s stag do tonight, which gives us girls plenty of time to do the test without my brother being his usual overprotective self over Nina.
I’ve been on edge for days, my thoughts occupied not only by Nina and her potential pregnancy but by Lance and the fact I might run into him at my brother’s tonight. Or that maybe he might just be thinking about me too.
Because every night, I lie in my dimly lit room and think only of him.
“Is anyone else nervous as hell?” Lucy mutters, turning to look at Megan in the back.
I tighten my grip on the steering wheel. “I think it will work out regardless. Nina and Mase are both good people. It might be terrible timing, but I have no doubt that they’ll figure it out.”
“If anything, it’s probably exactly what your brother needs,” Megan says.
I nod. “I think so, too. It would be the making of him.”
“And Nina would boss it. She’s one of them who just gets on with it,” Lucy tells us.
“Exactly.” I nod, swallowing as I look between them, my stomach coiled tight.
Silence falls over the car, all of us likely feeling the same way.
“It’s going to be fine, guys,” Lucy eventually says.
I’m not sure who she’s trying to convince.
Lance
My whiskey tastes like shit, a bitter betrayal coating my tongue every time I even cast a look at Mason.
The idea of this night seemed simple two hours ago. Save my friend from another woman who’s happy to do him over, all to save herself. What from? I’m not sure I care at this point. Not after Cara, my mum, and my sisters. Women who take and destroy. So selfish they don’t see they could have everything they wanted if they only loved what was in front of them.
I can almost believe Nina really does love Mason. That maybe she needs the money for reasons other than greed, but again, I’ve watched my best friend give her the world over the last four months, and he’d give her the rest of it too. If she’d only asked for it.
That feeling of betrayal when you find out the people who should love you can hurt you… he isn’t going to know what that feeling is—she is.
And then she’ll be gone.
Mason was there for me when I had nothing left. It’s my turn to be there for him.
“You’ve had enough tonight, Sullivan. Time to head home, buddy.” Elliot leans down and takes my glass, his own eyes glazed.
“I’m fine,” I tell him, standing. I stagger, knocking into the table. The few discarded drinks go tumbling.
“Sure you are. Come on.”
My right arm is lifted and placed over his shoulder, aiding me toward the entrance of the club.
“Montgomery, I’ve got it.” Mason appears on my left, jerking his chin at Elliot as if to ask him what’s wrong with me.
I stand to my full height and shrug him off me. “I said I’m fine, Lowell.”
His brows furrow, and then he nods. “I’m heading back, too. I’ll call Vin.”
I don’t wait around for him, pushing out onto the street and letting the cold whip me across the face with a slap. The roads are busy, the cars passing with a constant stream, the motion making me feel sick.
Let him go home.
