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He barely got the words out before Wes took off out of the room. He turned back to Abbie, finding her staring up at him with a guarded expression. “I’m sorry for yelling,” he told her. “I’m sorry for scaring you, and for accusing you of cheating.”
“I’d never do that,” she whispered, and he nodded, looking away.
“I know.” He took a deep breath. She’d been so honest with him the other night, he could be honest with her, too. “The last woman I was in a relationship with cheated on me. She’d been cheating on me for months, and I never knew. Not until I walked in on her fucking one of our friends. It was—” He sighed, running his hand over his head. “I didn’t realize how much it fucked me up. But seeing you with Wes when you weren’t supposed to be here…it was a shock, but it brought up those old feelings. I wasn’t even talking to you, wasn’t seeing you. Was seeing her. Was mad at her.”
She wrapped her arms around his neck, holding him close. “I’m sorry, Jetty,” she whispered. “I didn’t know. I would’ve told you, but I was just in a hurry to get to work, and I didn’t think about texting. I’ll do better, I’m sorry.”
“No, baby. It’s okay. I know you were busy.” He wrapped his arms tightly around her. “I’ll do better, too, okay? What happened out there won’t ever happen again.”
She nodded, her cheek sliding against his neck. “Sorry.”
“You have nothing to be sorry for,” he told her firmly. “I fucked up.”
“Bad word,” she said again, and he smiled to himself.
He’d feel like shit about this for a long time, probably forever, and he’d do everything he could to continue apologizing. He didn’t like that he’d turned into a jealous monster, and he really needed to fix himself before he completely ruined everything with Abbie.
Wes walked back into the room with an electrolyte drink and some chocolate. He handed them to Jett, but sat in a chair beside the desk where Abbie was laying. She smiled weakly at him, and he patted her leg.
Jett didn’t like that. But he reigned his crazy in. Just a bit.
“How do you know each other?” he asked gruffly. Wes shot him a look, but Abbie sighed tiredly and any jealousy that was still lingering disappeared at that sigh
“We’re neighbors,” she said. “I moved in next door to him about a year ago. He’s my friend.”
“Friend?” Jett glanced at Wes, finding him nodding. “Haven’t heard you talk about her before.”
“Yeah, you have,” Wes scoffed. “My cute neighbor who needs help rehoming spiders?”
“You told people about that?” she gasped, then pointed. “Gossiping isn’t very nice.” He flashed her a grin that had Jett gripping the edge of the desk so he wouldn’t throttle the other man.
Get it the fuck under control.
“So, you’ve known each other a while,” he said tightly, and she nodded.
“Wes was there for me when I didn’t have anyone else,” she told him, sounding sad. “He was the first friend I made when I moved out of my parents house. He helped me in the beginning since I didn’t know how to do anything. He’s practically my brother.”
“Your extremely hot brother.” He grinned, but that made Jett’s control snap.
“Don’t flirt with her,” he snarled, and Wes’ grin fell.
“Just joking?—”
“Well don’t. She’s mine. Understand me? Mine.”
“Oo, oo. Jett, caveman. Caveman must stake claim.” Abbie made her voice deeper and mimicked a monkey, waving her arms around.
He shot her a look, but when he saw her throw her head back and laugh, he didn’t care. He just took a deep breath, calming himself.
“You feeling okay, baby?” he asked, stroking his hand along her thigh.
She nodded as she nibbled the chocolate, dropping her eyes. He didn’t like that. He glanced at Wes, finding him watching her intently.
Nothing is going on between them, he reminded himself. Friends. She was allowed to be friends with Wes. And if he was being honest, Wes was a good friend to have. He was a good guy and he was glad Abbie had someone who’d been looking out for her all this time. That she hadn’t been totally alone.
“I’m taking the rest of the day off,” he said, and Wes nodded.
“I’ll let Martin know.” He eyed him. “This is serious then?”
