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Blinking, I return to the present.
“It doesn’t matter anyway. What’s done is done. I don’t want anybody else to know. Not until I have some answers of my own.”
Not until I know if I’m dying.
I narrow my gaze at his hands. Not just scrapes, but his knuckles are raw. “What happened to your hand?”
Nixon looks down at his hands for a beat as if he’s surprised by the question. “Rough practice,” he shrugs before changing the subject. “What did the doctor tell you?”
I let out a frustrated sigh. Sometimes he can be like a dog with a bone. “She told me to come to her office tomorrow. She wants to see me and run some tests.”
“Okay, I have a class in the morning, but I think I can skip it, and—”
Skip it?
“Hell, no. You’re not skipping shit.” With a shake of my head, I turn on the balls of my feet and go to the register.
“Jade,” Nixon calls after me, but I don’t bother turning around. “You can’t ignore this forever.”
I can damn well try.
And try I do.
Not that it’s easy to ignore my brother’s looming height over me, but I’m adamant about doing it. Thankfully he doesn’t say anything else—a small blessing since he’s known to be a nosey and bossy asshole more often than not.
Aimlessly, I look for an available table, but Nixon nudges me in the opposite direction. “Yas is over there,” he tips his chin, and sure enough, Yasmin and Callie are sitting opposite one another, chatting and laughing.
Yasmin is the first who notices us, but the moment she sees me, that smile falls.
“You told her!” I hiss, glaring at my brother in accusation.
“Of course, I told her! She’s mywife.Besides, it’s not like she wouldn’t have figured out that something was wrong when I came home upset.” Nixon shrugs. “It’s fine.”
No, it isn’t fine, but before I could fight with him about it, Nixon walks past me and sits down next to her, pressing a kiss to the top of her head. “Hey, babe. Who are you two gossiping about?”
Letting out a shaky breath, I join them at the table, Yasmin’s eyes following my every move.
“Nobody.”
“Really?” Nixon quirks a brow. “The conversation seemed to die really quickly the moment we sat down. Gossiping about me, wife?”
Yasmin rolls her eyes. “Not everything is about you.”
Nixon wiggles his brows. “You didn’t say that last night.”
I make a gagging noise. “Can we not? Some of us are trying to eat.”
“I agree with Jade here,” Callie chimes in.
I open my sandwich halfheartedly. My appetite has been down the last few days. My stomach is too wound up to even think about food, much less attempt to eat it.
“Don’t try playing nice now. You’re just saying that since Hayden’s not here.”
“Guilty as charged,” Callie sighs. “And I just got back.”
“Any idea when you’ll see each other again?” Yas asks.
“Probably not before Thanksgiving. Football season is in full swing, and with midterms approaching, I don’t think I’ll have time to drive to his place. But enough about me, what about you, Jade? Found any nice guys?”
