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“Or any other elaborate way that’s true to a Lawson, either,” Brad added. “Just do well by her and that’s all.” He chuckled again. “Seriously, well done, Jaxon.”
“Thanks,” Jaxon said, his voice sounding hollow in his own head as he leaned back on the sofa for a long moment.
Brad kicked his foot, disrupting the blanket nest on the floor. “Can you move your sex blanket, please? You have company.”
“It’s not—” he stopped in mid-sentence and sighed. “Yeah. Yeah, I’ll move it.”
“Why aren’t you staying at Teagan’s?” Brad asked, as Jaxon began folding all the blankets and stacking them neatly in the corner.
“At Teagan’s?” Jaxon repeated.
“Yeah. She’s got the room. She’s not far from here. And she has heat. And running water.”
“I…”
“I don’t want to be the guy who tells you where to take your girl, but maybe swallow your pride and just stay at hers until this place is more inhabitable.”
It wasn’t like he’d ever have to actuallydothis or anything. It was just for pretend. And he needed to get better at it if he didn’t want to give that away.
“Yeah, maybe you’re right…”
“I mean, unless she doesn’t want you living at her place. In that case, shut me up.”
“Just tell me how,” Jaxon chuckled, and Brad abruptly changed the subject.
“Say, did you borrow Dave’s car last night?”
“Yeah, he was parking me in. I had to go meet Teagan. I could have just switched cars, but it was urgent.”
“At eleven at night?”
Jaxon glanced over at Brad, who mouthed ‘oh’ and pressed his lips together.
That obviously wasn’t what he’d done, but he knew it would shut Brad up. Because no matter how this whole ‘I’m happy for you’ bullshit seemed, he still didn’t want to hear about Jaxon boning his sister.
Jaxon didn’t even want to think about it, actually.
Not that itwasn’tsomething he would think about. Or had thought about. Brad had been dead on with that all that former-crush nonsense. Emphasis on the former. As in high-school-former. He’d thought about it alotback then. So much that he really hoped no one else knew about his past infatuation.
He definitely wasn’t crushing on his… fuck, he didn’t even know what she was.
Chapter Five
Friend, you idiot.
Right, right. She’s a friend.
A friend hewasn’tcrushing on, and a friend he absolutely wasn’t fucking last night, but her brother thought he was, and that was what he had to pretend. Fine.
“You didn’t do it in his car, did you?” Brad asked. “I mean… Dave still doesn’t know about any of this and–”
“No, no, no… nope. No.” Jaxon shook his head. “Nope. Not… we were–” He stopped himself before he engaged in fake locker room banter with Brad about his sister. “We werenotin Dave’s car.”
He bit down on his bottom lip and stared straight ahead.
“Not that I haven’t thought about it myself with one of my girlfriends or anything,” Brad said slowly. “But it’s you and Teagan, you know? And–”
“Brad. Man. I get it. Stop talking now.”
