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The evening isn’t as awkward as I expected it to be, especially after we’ve all had a few drinks. Cara and Con seem to get along like a house on fire, but I can tell that Clover isn’t as convinced. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that she is protective of Cara and isn’t accepting Con after just one meeting. We all need a friend like Clover.
“So what’s going on with you and Cara?” Felix asks me when we have a moment alone in the kitchen.
I glance around before I answer. “Nothing. She literally only just became single. I don’t think now is the time.”
“Since when have you ever cared about being a rebound?” he replies, eyes widening. “You like her.”
“I like lots of women.”
“I mean you really like her. You normally don’t think twice about anything. I know you, Decker, and I’ve seen you work. Damn, even a few times I was impressed with how fast you managed to get a woman into bed.”
I cringe, realizing how bad that sounds. “She’s your wife’s best friend. Did you ever think that I don’t want to make it messy for you?”
Felix blinks. “Yeah, that doesn’t sound like you at all.”
Clover steps into the kitchen and purses her lips. “I can’t find anything to complain about Con except a gut feeling. And I don’t think that is going to cut it.”
“Maybe she is just a genuine person,” Felix says, wrapping her in his arms. “We’ll be here for Cara no matter what happens. But you can’t protect her from everything.”
“I know,” she replies, her voice muted by Felix’s shirt. She lifts her face. “And we’ll be here to pick up the pieces. I’m also not opposed to punching Con in the face.”
“We know,” Felix says in a dry tone. “Hopefully it won’t come to that.”
Clover looks over at me. “So what’s going on with you and Cara?”
I scrub my hand down my face. “Nothing.”
“Ten bucks they sleep with each other in the next few weeks,” Clover says to Felix.
“You’re on. I say this week.”
I open my mouth, and close it. While I wouldn’t be opposed to Felix winning that bet, I don’t know. For once I’m a little out of my element with a woman. I don’t know how to approach what may, or may not, be going on with Cara and me.
“We all just going to pretend that Rhett didn’t exist? Isn’t he your best friend, too?” I ask Clover.
“Yeah, but he didn’t do right by her. He let her learn to live without him. I love him, I really do, but he got himself into this situation. He lost the best woman he’s ever going to get because he was too busy in the club life. So Rhett is not an issue here. Cara has been getting over him long before she would have ever even admitted that to herself.”
Cara’s musical laugh makes all of our heads turn.
“Come on, we better go in there. We are being rude hiding in here,” I tell them both.
I sit back down next to Cara, and she turns to me, big, brown eyes filled with happiness. “Do you have to work tomorrow?”
I shake my head. “Nope I’m taking the weekend off, why?”
She lifts up a bottle of tequila off the coffee table. It’s the one with the scorpion in the bottom of the bottle. “Shots?”
Damn, these teachers are wild.
I glance up at Clover, who perks up a little. She turns to Felix. “One of us has to stay sober and be a parent. We should flip a coin.”
Felix smirks, amusement dancing in his eyes. “You can have a drink, babe. I’ll take one for the team.”
She rubs her hands together menacingly. “Wonderful.”
“I mean, I guess I could have one,” Con replies, smiling widely. “But I do have to drive home.”
“One it is,” Cara replies.
