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I shake my head. “I’ve just been under a lot of stress.”
I’m on birth control. There’s beena lotgoing on. The move, Vegas, Clayton, Crew’s injury, the tension, not to mention tonight.
She watches me carefully for a long moment. Finally she just says, “You know I’m here for you always. For anything.”
“I know.” I force a smile. I need a distraction. “So, tell me all about Alexsei.”
Luna groans. “He is a man, he plays for the Racketeers, the end.”
“He’sreallycute.”
“You want another boyfriend? Go for it.”
“No!” I laugh. “God, that’s the last thing I need.”
Luna laughs too. “Drop it, Dani, or I’m putting on a slasher movie.”
She knows I hate those I sigh. Fine. I won’t be distracted by my best friend’s love life tonight. But I don’t want to think about mine anymore right now. I pull the blanket closer to my chest. “Anything but a romance.”
CHAPTER 25
Crew
What the actualfuck was that?
I came downstairs to try to distract myself with video games but instead, I’m pacing back and forth in our game room. The game room I love. That I’ve coaxed Dani down into on more than one occasion to play silly games and laugh and kiss on each other.
That’s what we’re doing.
We’re laughing. We’re having fun. We’reliving together.
Why the hell isn’t that enough?
It’s not like Ineverwant to marry Dani. If I’m going to marry anyone, it will be that girl. I don’t want to be with anyone else, that’s for sure. I don’t want to let her go, either.
Butfuck,it seems to me like we’ve gone from zero to ninety as it is, and I’m good, I’m happy. I want to be with Dani. We’re living in the moment.
Then Hughes had to go and fuck it all up by making it as serious as it can possibly get. And shine the spotlight on me and Nathan and whatwewant right this very minute. Or what wedon’twant right this very minute. Jesus.
It’s not like I don’t think about how Michael is more stable, and more romantic, and more mature than I am almost every damned day as it is.
I can hear his fucking footsteps upstairs in his fucking kitchen right now, as a matter of fact. Because the kitchen is his. And now, apparently Dani is his because I wasn’t thinking we were renting tuxes and sweating at the altar, watching Dani walk down an aisle in a white dress any time soon.
I’ve been focused on adjusting to the fact that there are no paper plates allowed in this house, so I have to actually load the dishwasher, and my recent medically dictated bench time to give any sort of thought to something likemarriage.
I mean, we kind of feel married in a lot of ways already, in my opinion.
And a poly marriage sounds like a lot of work and I don’t know if I have this in me. Not right now, anyway. I need to save my best efforts for the ice.
I can hear Nathan’s footsteps up there too. If I know him, he’s headed straight for his bourbon. Staying here, listening to them, is giving me anxiety I don’t need right now.
Pulling my phone out of my pocket, I text Alexsei. He’s single and goes out all the time and is the perfect guy to hit up at the last minute.
Hey, what’s up?
To my relief, he answers right away.
Hey. Nothing. Hanging out at McGintys. Come up if you’re not busy. And if your girlfriend will let you.
