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“Yeah, I didn’t think so.”
I knotted my hair up on the top of my head as I left my bedroom to go find my best friend. “Hey, Em?”
“In here,” Emery called from her bedroom.
“Hey.”
She waved her hand as she dug through her closet for clothes to wear to work.
“Sorry about that.”
“It’s no big,” she said. “I just…was a hundred percent unprepared for that.”
“Yeah, I guess it’s probably pretty weird.”
Emery shot me a no-shit look. “That’s a word for it.”
“I know you said that you were cool with it, but I really don’t want you to feel uncomfortable in your own apartment. We don’t have to be here if you don’t—”
Emery held up her hand. “Bring it down a level, hooker. I don’t care that you’re together, and I don’t want you to have to go somewhere else.”
“But?” I prompted.
“But…I don’t know how long I can keep this from Jensen.”
Landon stuck his head in the bedroom. Thankfully, he’d shrugged back into his button-up and slacks. “Sorry, just happened to overhear.”
Emery rolled her eyes at him. “Yeah, because we’re so quiet.”
“Telling Jensen would be a really bad idea for Heidi at this point.”
Emery threw down the pair of shoes she’d been holding. “I’m going crazy over here. Secrets are a big thing between me and Jensen, and if he thinks I’m holding something back, then he’s going to get pissed. And, trust me, no one likes when that happens. Least of all, me.”
“Yeah, but if we tell Jensen, I could lose my job,” I said.
“Or we could figure something out!” Emery cried.
“I love my brother, but we all know he solves problems with a blunt instrument,” Landon said.
“What if we talked to Morgan?” Emery asked.
“Already did.”
“Fuck,” Emery groaned. “Okay, okay. I can figure this out, but if he shows up and y’all are together, I never knew!”
“Got it,” Landon agreed.
I nodded. “Thanks, Em.”
“You owe me,” Emery told me. “And you…you should be lucky it’s my best friend.”
Landon held his arms up. “We both appreciate it, Emery. Even if we don’t both deserve it.”
She nodded her head as Landon eased out of the bedroom.
“I have to get ready for work,” Emery said with a sigh. “Will you please be careful? I could have easily had Jensen with me, and we’d be having a much different conversation.”
“I’d like to avoid that conversation if at all possible.”
