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“All right?” Drew tips his chin as he opens the door and Tanner and Dax file in dressed in paint splattered jeans and ripped t-shirts.
“What are you both doing here?” My stomach drops as Drew shuts the door and Logan doesn’t appear. The four are usually together.
“Hey, Maddy.” Tanner looks tired but smiles as he passes me. He goes straight into my hallway cupboard where the fuse box is.
“Morning, Maddy.” Dax nods, his tattooed arms flexing around the giant box he’s carrying.
“You’re only supposed to be helping me fix that door that keeps jamming. What’s all this?”
“Logan’s idea,” Tanner calls from inside the cupboard.
“Call it a gift,” Dax adds as he sets the box down and opens it. He begins pulling out wires and some round white discs.
Drew pulls a measuring tape from his back pocket. “I’ll mark up in the bathroom, yeah?”
“Sounds like a plan,” Tanner answers.
I scramble after Drew as he strides off humming to himself.
“Are you going to tell me what’s going on?”
“Logan said we ought to do this when you were out so you don’t ask questions.”
“What isthis?”
Drew starts marking up the wall in my bathroom with a pencil. “It’s his way of saying sorry. He said he feels bad about you and me falling out after I found out about you two.”
“We didn’t fall out,” I say as he continues making measurements and marks.
“I know. But he feels like an asshole about it, and he’s bought all the kit for us to install, so…” Drew shrugs.
God, I want to punch him. My big brother is irritatingly vague sometimes. I swear he does it on purpose because he enjoys winding me up.
“And what kit is this exactly?”
“A built-in speaker system. So you can listen to your books and shit.”
“Logan said that?” I freeze, my skin prickling.
Drew writes measurements on the paintwork. “Minus the ‘and shit’ part, but yeah, pretty much.” He places his pencil behind his ear, narrowing his eyes as he assesses the wall. “He said it had to include the bathroom because you like to listen in the tub. Although don’t fucking tell me how he knows that.”
In the tub?Memories of his house in Rome and being pressed against him wet and naked assault my mind. That was before we’d ever kissed. Before we’d ever… Back when I still hated him.
“I can’t believe Logan asked you guys to put this in my apartment for me.”
My throat goes dry and I blink furiously as Drew turns to me.
His expression softens a touch. “I’m not going to lie, Maddy. I’m still fucking pissed about you two.”
“There is no us. He’s better off… Never mind.” I shrug and bite my bottom lip.
He stares at me unblinking like he doesn’t believe a word. “Well, whatever you want to call it, Logan’s got enough shit going on right now, he doesn’t need more. We talked, and we’re good.”
“You are?”
“We’ve got to be. Like I said, he doesn’t need any more shit right now.” Drew’s tone takes on a hint of warning.
I nod. It’s his way of saying his friend needs him so he’s stepping up and pushing his anger aside. Drew’s always been fiercely loyal to his friends. Yet, it still feels like he means me. Like I cause Logan shit every time I’m near him. Maybe that’s true. He’d be better far, far away from me, the girl who judged and blamed him unfairly. It’s been one big fuck up since the day we first met. We were just never meant to be.
