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Her eyes roll. “You’re a child.”
“What happened to the sister who helped me with recon missions to score some blackmail on him?”
“She grew up.”
I shoot her a look that she serves right back.
“Seriously. Why is he the enemy? And don’t give me some lame excuse about you two having a rivalry since childhood because I know it goes beyond that.”
I jerk back. “What?”
“I might act oblivious, but that doesn’t make me stupid. Something happened between you two while you were at college, so what was it?”
“Nothing.”
“You’re such a bad liar.”
I focus on the centerpiece. “I don’t want to talk about it.”
“You know you can tell me anything. I’m like Fort Knox.”
A whole minute goes by before I speak again. “We kissed.”
She squeals like a damn kid at Dreamland. “I knew it!”
I glare.
“What else? Tell me more!”
My entire face feels like it might burst into flames. “No.”
Her eyes bulge. “You guys had sex, didn’t you?”
A flower stem snaps between my fingers. “Lily!”
She throws her hands in the air. “Come on! I’ve waitedyearsto ask you about this. At least take pity on me and entertain a few of my questions.”
“Why didn’t you ask me about this before?”
“You were avoiding him for some reason, so I wasn’t aboutto bring him up.”
“Yeah.”
“So what happened? I have my suspicions and everything, but I’m not sure.”
My gaze drops. “It’s complicated.”
“When did you realize you liked him?”
“Probably toward the end of our freshman year of college.” Homesickness and a psychology project forced us to rely on each other like never before, and little by little, the two of us became friends.
“And then what?” my sister asks.
I kissed him a few weeks before everything in his life went to shit.
My shoulders drop. “His dad died.”
“Oh.”
