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The rings cling against the bottlenecks as I throw one after the other, missing most of them.Tell me about it, old man.After the third bucket, my wrist aches, and I have only made about four.
After two hours, my phone dings letting me know Aura is home. I had Camila send me a text when she made it home safely.
She said her friend Exie dropped her off and not Lane. Even if Lane and I go way back, I stay out of his way, and he stays out of mine.
Except when we race once a month at the track in the fall when the temperatures cool, letting his latest build and my Lamborghini run at optimal speed. Since he made his own money refusing to take over his father’s conglomerate, it forced his parents to leave most of it to Exie.
The worst part about him being around Aura is that she sees him as her hero, and I’m the villain. Brian walks up to me while I settle with the old man and the ten bears he has left.
“Need help?” Brian asks.
I nod. “Yeah.”
“Is this for who I think it is?”
I grab three of the bears and lift them. “Is it that obvious?”
He chuckles. “You are really into her, aren’t you?”
“I should ask you the same thing. The looks you give Exie are enough for even me to figure out. Pushing her away is only going to make her run into the arms of someone else.”
Brian’s nostrils flare and his jaw ticks. “Oh yeah? Like who? We warned everyone away from them and banned them from my parties. Who in their right mind would defy us at Spencer?”
I shake my head, handing him three of the bears. “The guy who was standing close to her in the line checking out her ass while her brother was buying food. That’s who.”
Brian’s fist clenched on the bear.
“Easy. Don’t fuck up the bear before I surprise her. She was waiting in the line, hoping to win one.”
Brian snorts. “Yeah, before the queen bitch spit her vitriol at them. Aura was right. She is annoying. So is Wendy. I wish they came with an off switch so they could shut the fuck up.”
We make it with the bears and three giant trash bags with the rest of the furry stuffed animals to the parking lot. Thank God Brian brought his truck so they all fit. Fitting ten oversized bears inside a sports car is not going to happen.
He closes the back passenger door of his truck. “How is it going to work if she agrees to give your sorry pigheaded ass a chance after you have treated her like dirt?”
I open the door to my Lambo, and the door swings up. “How is what going to work?”
“Her cleaning the toilets and dating you,” he volleys back.
I slide inside the red leather seat and roll the window down when he does the same with his front passenger window. “That’s easy, she doesn’t. With me or not, I’ll make sure to take care of her.”
I just hope she chooses me.
15
AURA
The sun streams through the window, but when I take a deep breath, a faint smell of a man’s cologne is in the air. When my eyes flutter open, I gasp and spring up from the bed. Gigantic bears crowd my room. There are ten in total in various colors, ranging from pink, blue, and even yellow. I grab the one on the foot of the bed and notice they are the same ones Exie and I wanted at the fair. The ones that were nearly impossible to get. Who could’ve?—
Quickly getting dressed in leggings and a T-shirt, I brush my teeth and knock on Kalum’s bedroom door. I knock again before trying the handle. When no one answers, I turn the knob and the door swings open. Kalum stands in the middle of his room, scowling at me.
He is shirtless, wearing sweats and barefoot. He must have just gotten out of the shower because his dark-brown hair is wet.
“Why didn’t you answer when I knocked on the door?”
He walks toward me and reaches out above my head and shuts the door. “Are you with him?”
“What?”
