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“Including your brother?”
“Everyone,” he enunciates.
“That prick Landon is horrible at covering tracks. Two out of five, would not use again,” I mutter under my breath.
“You’re the one who sucks at concealing your plans, if we’re being honest,” Creigh says. “You’re rubbish at hiding your emotions around him.”
“He makes me angry.”
“Uh-huh.”
“He does, and you’re channeling his energy right now, which I don’t appreciate. Talk some sense into him, Anni.”
“He’s not wrong.”
“I can’t believe this.” I gasp. “Friendship is dead these days.”
“Don’t be like that.” Anni takes my hands in hers. “We’re just worried about you.”
Great.
Every single one of my friends thinks I’m a clusterfuck they probably wouldn’t trust to watch a goldfish.
“I’m fine.” I pat her hand and pull away. “Now, tell me stories about the time I forgot. Did I make his life hell more than he made mine?”
“By miles,” Creighton says, his voice uncharacteristically darkening.
Anni pinches his bicep. “He meant you got back at him.”
“Good. What type of things did I do?”
“You know. This and that.”
“Like?”
She spends longer than usual chewing on her sashimi and even takes one sip of her purple-colored mocktail, and then another.
“You’re familiar with your shenanigans,” Creigh says instead. “You don’t need us to remind you of them.”
“So I drove away all of his girlfriends and started a small fire in his designer shoe room?”
“Something like that,” Anni says. “Though you guys are exclusive, so there were no girlfriends. Only admirers.”
A warm, fuzzy feeling mixed with triumph shoots through me. “And I kicked them to the curb?”
She nods.
“I crashed his car the other day and spent a small fortune on strangers.”
This time she laughs. “I wouldn’t expect anything less from you.”
“It’s his favorite car, too. Once he gets it repaired, I’m contemplating scratching the hell out of it, and when the paint is done, I’ll chuck it over a cliff and film it in slow mo.”
“Badass.” She clinks her glass with mine.
“More like foolish,” Creigh supplies like the worst sidekick. “If you believe these childish attempts will sway Eli for the better, then you’ve learned nothing from the past.”
“Let her blow off some steam, Creigh.” She strokes his shoulder. “She doesn’t remember the last two years.”
