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it I d given him reason to believe that. But if I were the one being asked,
I d say it was because Jude was a rescuer, and I didn t want to be rescued.
I liked to think of myself as a generally happy person, but I had my dark mo
ments. Sometimes it felt like I needed those, because without them, being ha
ppy would mean nothing.
Like, being there with Luke. I doubt I would have appreciated a simple situ
ation such as his meeting my friends as much as I did if I didn t know I d
almost prevented it. Just knowing that made me want to take care with what
we had. Call it backwards thinking, but it made sense to me.
I think as I sat there on an old bench against the garage wall with Quinn, w
atching Luke explore the rust-bucket with Jude, I had an epiphany of sorts.
Luke fit in. So well, in fact, that I couldn t remember what I d been worrie
d about in the first place. He caught me watching and winked at me. I heard
myself sigh before I looked at Quinn, a gloating grin on my face.
My boyfriend s hotter than yours. I was sure if Bree hadn t been called in
to help clean up, she d back me up on this.
Brow lifting, Quinn looked back towards Luke and Jude, as if to assess the
situation for himself. It wasn t long before he shook his head. No fucking
way.
It s true, I insisted.
He shrugged. Your opinion.
Yeah, but my opinion s right.
He rolled his eyes at me, and knowing he d get nowhere with this, decided
to change the subject. We re gonna head to Jude s after a while here. Are
you guys coming?
Are we invited? I asked, making sure to sound surprised.
You re less annoying when he s around, Quinn remarked, nodding in Luke
s direction.
I smiled at that. Quinn had gotten a lot better at tolerating me since we d me
t. He even liked me, not that he d admit it to my face.
I ll ask Luke, I told him.
Quinn nodded, and for a moment we sat in silence, listening to Jude s voice
as it grew louder with his excitement over plans for his newest project.
He s a step up from the last one, Quinn said of Luke, and it took me a m
oment to realize that he had made the inevitable comparison between Luke a
nd James.
Yeah, I agreed. I know. Because I d be a complete idiot if I fucked this
up with Luke. At least, that s what I heard in Quinn s comment. But I told
myself I shouldn t be worried about it. I was slowly making amends over my s
abotaging behavior and Luke was obviously still interested. There was that l
ittle matter of what happened when it came to sex, but I told myself it was
too early to read anything into it. We d only gotten close that one time, af
ter all. I was probably concerned over nothing. I was sure that once he knew
what a good participator I could be that little issue would sort itself out
. And to get started, the moment he approached us with Jude I stood up and i
nitiated a kiss that had his arms around me before Quinn cleared his throat
uncomfortably and we pulled apart. Luke was smiling. I liked it when he did
that.
Jude asked us to stop by before I take you home, he told me. Your call.
I shrugged. Whatever s good with you. Because all night it had sunk in wit
h me that I didn t have to be alone with him to be with him. And I smiled be
cause I was starting over, it just happened to be with him.
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