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“I hope you hold on to her this time.” Jacob pushes a piece of gum into his mouth as he steps outside onto the cobbled path.
“What if I fuck it all up again?” I sigh.
“You won’t, but good luck wallowing in your pity party.”
“She’s too good for me.” I keep saying that to everyone; I sound like a broken record.
“Yeah, she fucking is,” Owen teases. “I’m kidding.” He bumps my shoulder with him. “But she thinks she is the perfect woman for you.”
“She is the perfect woman for you. She has so much sass. How you keep up is anyone's guess.” Jacob smiles at me.
“And she’s fucking nice.” Owen tests me. “Nice ass. Big…” He makes cup shapes with his hands and places them in front of him.
“Don’t be so crude, Owen.” Jacob sighs. “You are so disrespectful, and Skye could’ve heard you.”
I keep forgetting to speak to Jacob about his feelings for Skye. Working in such close proximity to her must be hard for him if he does. Then there's the issue of her being his best friend's girlfriend.
“Well said, Jacob. Please don’t fucking speak about her like that, Owen. She is my…” I pause.
“What, Lincoln, what is she? Say it…” Owen wants me to finish that sentence.
Appearing beside me, Violet says, “Well, that’s easy. I’m his girlfriend. Or is live-in lover better?” Violet threads her fingers into mine and it feels nice to be touching her again.
I filled Jacob and Owen in earlier about how I am sleeping in the spare room and how we ended up sleeping in front of the fire together last night.
They reckon I will push her to a point of no return if I don’t sort my head out.
But she put me first before herself, moved her life, her job, all to be with me. I’m not that special and my brain misfires every time I try to figure out why she would give it all up for me.
“Hey, Linc. I didn’t know you were back.” Oh shit. A voice I know all too well closes in on us.
Especially the way my name sounds on her fake filled lips. Linc, oh, Linc, yeah, right there. There is no way that was fucking real. She’s an all for show, watched too much porn, shouty fuck. But she was available for me when I needed a much-needed release over the years.
“Hey, Harriet,” I say politely.
My friends grumble at her name. None of them like her, but they were well aware of our past arrangement.
“How long have you been back for?” She pouts.
Well, this feels awkward.
“A month.”
“Wow.” Her tiny brain can’t work out why I didn’t get in touch. She pushes her blond hair over her shoulder. I don’t know what I was thinking about sleeping with her for as long as I did. She’s not my type at all.
I side-eye the enigmatic woman standing beside me. She’s elegant, vibrant, funny, clever, and she cares about me.
Jacob and Owen are right. I am going to lose her if I don’t get my shit together.
“Are you going out on Saturday night?” Harriet looks at me hopefully. She clearly failed to spot mine and Violet’s joined hands.
Violet speaks up. “Oh no, we can't, I'm afraid. We have plans.”
Do we? She squeezes my hand.
“Yeah, sorry about that,” I back Violet up.
“Who is this?” Harriet looks Violet up and down.
