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One of many reasons legends weren’t supposed to have contact with their friends.
I turned away from Bastian for the twelfth time since my shift started tonight, forcing myself to focus on finishing my shift and leaving without another impromptu… whatever that was in the basement.
Graham nodded his head in Bastian’s direction.
“What’d you do?”
I used my towel to dry off a beer glass, then handed it to him. “What do you mean?”
He passed me another wet glass. “He likes you. He doesn’t like anyone.”
I set the glass down and met Graham’s eyes. “He doesn’t like me.”
“No?”
“Nope.”
Rolling my eyes, I returned to drying the glasses.
“Then why’d he carry a hundred and fifty pounds of ice up the stairs for you in a fifty-thousand-dollar, one-of-a-kind suit?”
I froze. “That wasn’t you?”
He laughed. “I like you, sweetheart, but not that much.”
I shook my head and pushed aside the hair from my face, searching Graham for any signs of deception.
“But you said, ‘you’re welcome’ the other day. Why else would you say that?”
“Because you were in the basement for a really long time. I covered, like, thirty minutes of your shift, Ari.”
“Oh.”
But that meant Bastian actually carried the ice up for me, and that meant Bastian had a heart buried somewhere in that asshole exterior.
The consequences of that proved fatal.
Graham tilted his head and narrowed his eyes.
“Come to think of it, wasn’t Bastian down there with you? I saw him leave after you did with the ice buckets in his hands, but I don’t remember seeing him enter after you left.”
I racked my brain for an excuse. “Yeah, he yelled at me for being late the other day. Gosh, he’s such a jerk.”
I was never late, but Graham was, so he wouldn’t know that.
Graham took the last glass from me. “Hey, well, he did bring the ice up for you…”
I didn’t need the reminder.
It was easier to write Bastian off when I thought he had no depth, when I thought he was just a jerk I couldn’t stop lusting after.
But when he did nice things without taking credit for them?
This dangerous territory scared me.
And the truth was, it should.
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