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“Thanks, I hope I don’t see you either,” I lie…again. Even though he hates it. Only this time, I’m pretty sure he thinks it’s the truth.
I’m still staring at the doorway long after he’s gone, completely lost in thought, wondering what it would have been like to have seen Wes after all these years and not have him hate me. Would something have happened between us? Something more than a quick—fully clothed—romp on his desk. It pains me to think that I’ll never know, that in another world, maybe things could have been different.
My phone rings, breaking me from my thoughts to see Logan’s name lighting up the screen. He must be here. God, I’m lucky to have such great friends. I laugh off my craziness and snap myself out of my daze before answering the call. “Are you out front?”
Logan laughs. “I am. I tried to call Dani, but she’s not answering. Can you detour via her office and tell her to get her sweet ass down here?”
Logan and Dani are a total opposites attract couple. If you met them both individually, like I did, you would never expect them to work. But they do.
I smile at the frustration in Logan’s voice and decide to leave it alone. “I will. How’s Katie?” Logan picked Katie up from my mom’s so she could come with me to Aaron and Lola’s tonight. I decided not to ask anyone to watch her, hoping she gets along with Aaron’s twins.
“Katie’s fine,” Logan says, and I picture him rolling his eyes. “Why don’t you come out and see for yourself? She’s currently chatting up a football player.”
I toss out a small laugh. “I bet she is.” That girl will talk to anyone. Hopefully he’s a patient kid. “I’ll be right there.”
“Aftergetting Dani,” Logan reminds me.
“Yes,afterDani,” I confirm and hang up, heading toward Dani’s office.
Ten minutes later, Dani and I exit the building with tears of laughter in our eyes. She walked in on one of the players in a state of undress and just finished describing it in detail. It seems to be a habit of hers.
“I thought they were all gone,” she cries out between breaths, clearly frazzled as I laugh some more.
“Mom! Mom!” Katie runs toward me and leaps into my arms as Logan joins us with a questioning look. I move out of earshot so Dani can repeat her story without little ears listening in, but can’t stop my chuckle just thinking about it.
As we approach my car a truck revs beside it. A familiar one that’s been there the entire time I’ve been outside and yet I’m only just seeing.Shit!My eyes lock on Greg sitting inside his metallic-blue Ford pick-up, and I freeze, my feet completely rooted to the ground. It’s not until he smirks at me that my instincts kick in and I move back to Logan, placing Katie in his arms.
“I’ll get the car started. Can you get her in her seat?” I whisper as Logan eyes me curiously. Something on my face must convince him not to ask questions because he walks toward my car without another word. Katie immediately starts tickling him, none the wiser that she has anything to be concerned about, while inside, I’m on the verge of a panic attack.
Greg jumps out of his truck as I approach my driver’s door, and rushes to my side. “You’re here. I didn’t believe Bry. But there you are. In the flesh.”
“Yep, I’m here. But I really have to go.”
“Wait!” He reaches out and grabs my forearm, his fingers digging into me in a bruising hold. “We need to talk.”
“I have nothing to say.”
His eyes flash to my back seat and he smirks again. “I beg to differ.”
When my eyes follow his stare, I see Dani helping Katie into her seat just as Logan joins my side. I should have known he wouldn’t leave me alone. “Greg, good to see you again. Everything okay here?” he says, wrapping an arm around my shoulder with a polite smile in place.
“Everything’s great,” Greg says, taking in the size of Logan compared to him. “I’ll be off, but we’ll talk soon, okay?”
Getting back in his truck, he drives away without waiting for an answer, while I’m left reeling.
“What—”
“Thanks, Logan,” I say, cutting him off before stepping out of his hold. I know he has questions, but I don’t have any answers right now. “We better go so we’re not late.” I need the distraction.
Chapter Eighteen
Wes
“No,runitagain!“I yell before blowing my whistle and repeating myself. “Again!”
Out of the corner of my eye, I see Silvers hobble out of the tunnel after leaving Lucy’s office with a frown still in place.Shit!Is it worse than Lucy said? I could ask him directly, but something tells me he’ll lie. Instead, as soon as I get a small window, I rush off to Lucy’s room, needing to know the truth. A week I can handle, a month would be bad, but not the end of the world. Anything more and we’re fucked. With a new quarterback we need our best receivers.
Music plays as I round the corner to Lucy’s office. Her door’s ajar, so I peek through the opening instead of making my presence known. And the sight is breathtaking.
