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My gut burned with shame, and I lowered my face. “Okay.”
“No more sex,” Thane repeated.
“Alright,” I snapped defensively.
He lifted his eyebrows severely. “You got me?”
“I got you,” I muttered before glancing around at the others, who were all uncharacteristically quiet and avoiding eye contact while I was being lectured.
“And thank you very much, you fucking cowards,” Thane snapped, pointing at all of them next. “I’m so glad you calledmeover to be the bad guy and slap some damn sense into him.”
“Well, you’re theonlyone of us who speaks hard truths so well,” Parker taunted with a challenging sneer.
“Oh, shut up,” Thane muttered, only to turn back to me and open his arms. “Alright, bring it in now so you know I still love you.”
I blew out a reluctant breath but then hugged him hard, admitting, “I’m sorry. I know I fucked up.”
And I knew I’d disappointed him. Nothing felt worse than disappointing Thane. I could handle disappointing my own parents ten times over before disappointing him. He was the center of my moral compass. I’d always followed his advice.
“It’s not me you need to apologize to. But I mean, I knowwhyyou did it.” He pulled away and then rolled his eyes before admitting, “Those dimples even got to me, man. I’m telling you…” He blew out a sharp whistle. “She is one fine specimen.”
I nodded reluctantly, only to confess, “Every time she looks at me, I just…”
“Trust me, I get it,” he assured as he set a hand on my shoulder. “I’ve been there before, remember. Falling for that special someone eclipses everything else.”
I glanced at him in surprise.
Butfalling?
I hadn’t even considered that idea. Except now that he’d said it out loud, I knew it was true.
Which only made my situation hurt more.
I blew out a long, shaky breath.
Havingthe talkwith Oaklynn was going to leave me ruined.
“Do you want one ofusto tell her instead?” Thane asked. We all knew that “one of us” meanthim. And it would’ve been so easy to let him take this on.
But... “No,” I muttered, glancing at him gratefully. “I need to be the one to do it.”
He nodded in agreement and patted my arm before letting go of me. “And the sooner the better,” he encouraged. “Okay?”
I glanced at the others, and finally, they began to send me commiserating glances, one by one.
“You got this, man,” Hudson rasped, lifting his foot from a chair to tap the side of my leg encouragingly with his shoe.
“Yeah,” Alec agreed. “Oaklynn’s the sympathetic type.”
“She’ll understand why you couldn’t tell her sooner,” Keene finished for him.
“And hey, maybe she’llthankyou for being the one to enlighten her to her abilities,” Foster guessed with a shrug.
“Or maybe she’ll hate his guts,” Parker replied more realistically.
To which Thane smacked him on the back of the head. “Really?”
“What?”
