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“Don’t tell me you’re sleeping in, Ames.”
That voice.
My blood chilled.
Before I could fully process, a figure stepped in the open bedroom door. Taller, older than she’d been, definitely grown up now.
However, I’d recognize my sister anywhere.
Chapter Thirteen
Ames
My wake-up was abrupt.
One moment, I basked in warmth and bliss, and the next, the warmth and bliss had shifted away from me. I blinked the sleep out of my eyes. Some noises rustled in the background, but I wasn’t registering them. Fuck, I wanted to stay curled up with Sam all day, and my muscles ached like I’d been hit by a pickup truck. Nope, just a fight against Dana.
Sam was sitting upright, frozen.
A voice sounded again, and it finally clicked in my brain it wasn’t Sam’s.
I pushed up from my comfortable spot on the pillow, my muscles screaming with the effort. My jaw clenched, but I fought through the discomfort as I tried to suss out the source of the problem.
A figure stood in the middle of my open door.
The rush of nerves woke me up better than a cup of coffee.
Nina. In my apartment.
And I was naked in bed with her sister.
“Oh fuck, Ames, I’m sorry,” she said, throwing her hands up to cover her eyes. “Didn’t realize I was walking in on a hookup.”
Maybe I could hide Sam. Just tug the covers over her and then usher Nina out the door before she realized anything.
“Wait—” she started, then stopped. Her gaze zeroed in on who sat in the bed next to me, barely covered by the sheet. Nina’s eyes widened, and her mouth dropped. I was so fucked.
My fingers curled into the sheets on either side of me. It took a minute to realize my tits were hanging out, but decency was the least of my concerns.
“Sam,” Nina’s voice came out in a whisper. She glanced between us, a crease forming between her brows. “Sam?”
“Long time no see, little sis,” Sam said, the words coming out in a dry rasp. Her body began to tremble beside me, the slight movement visible, and my heart lurched. I still hadn’t uncovered what had happened between them all those years ago, but Sam had been cut out from her entire family. I couldn’t reconcile the Nina who’d given me a huge hug and accepted me as queer with the one who’d coldly iced out her sister, but we hadn’t talked about it. There had to be something else going on.
“What the fuck?” Her head whipped back and forth as if she tried to piece together the sight before her.
“Nin, please wait in the kitchen so I can get dressed,” I said as calmly as I could muster, even though my insides were rioting. This was it—the end of our friendship. I’d crossed an uncrossable line, and there was no way she could forgive me. Sam would leave too, not wanting to deal with the mess, and I’d be worse than where I started.
Utterly alone.
To my surprise, Nina stepped out of the room and shut the door behind her.
My grip on the sheets relaxed, and I forced myself up and out of bed. I needed to talk to Nina before she bolted out of my apartment. Sam still sat frozen in the bed.
“Babe, are you okay?” I tugged on my ponytail. Fuck, she was probably reliving her horrible, horrible past, and it was my fault for not remembering I’d given my best friend the key to my apartment. “Fuck, I’m so sorry.”
Her gaze snapped to mine, her eyes sharp. Without a word, Sam got up from the bed and threw her clothes on, moving at a whirlwind pace. My mind reeled, torn in so many different directions that I couldn’t parse left from right, and my body ached to the point of distraction. I’d barely gotten my panties and a pair of shorts on when Sam was already fully dressed.
“I need to go,” was all she said before she opened the door and slipped through. Not a glance back, not another word, leaving me to face the music with her sister—alone.
