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“Nothing. Why do you ask?” Travis had been squirrelly around Zack since he’d found Laurel and him together, and especially after Zack had admitted he was interested. Zack wasn’t sure that Travis totally bought that he and Laurel hadn’t had sex. But that was Travis’s problem.
“That’s not the way I heard it.”
“Did Travis say something?”
“Just that he’d found you with Laurel the morning after she lost her job. And that you’d better not be lying to him about not having sex with her. He seemed a little bent out of shape about it.”
“You two gossip like girls.”
Levi shrugged that off. “Did you sleep with her?”
“No. Well, not exactly.”
“What does that mean?”
“We slept in the same bed but we didn’t have sex.”
“You slept in the same bed?”
“That’s what I said.”
“Why didn’t you have sex?”
“Because she was drunk and basically passed out in my bed. She was really upset about the job and the reason she was fired.”
“Laurel, drunk? That doesn’t sound like her. I mean, she’s got two kids.”
“They were spending the night with Harlan and Savannah.”
“Still, doesn’t sound like her. What happened at Jalisco’s?”
Zack told him about the asshole who’d grabbed Laurel and her reaction.
Levi laughed. “God, that’s priceless. Now that sounds like the Laurel we know.”
“Yeah, it was funny until the manager fired her. I talked to him afterward but he’s an asshole too. I found her at Booze’s, getting friendly with Nathan.”
“Nathan Kershaw?”
“Yep.”
“Nate’s a nice guy but if I had a sister I wouldn’t want her with him.”
“Exactly. After I told him who she was, he beat it. I convinced Laurel to come with me.” Which had not been easy. “The rest of it you know.”
“So you didn’t have sex with her. That night. But you want to.”
“Duh.”
Levi’s lips quirked. “So what’s the problem?”
“There isn’t one.” Maybe. “We’re taking things slowly.”
“More like glacial, considering how long you’ve known each other.”
He didn’t bother explaining to his friend that knowing her as Travis’s kid sister and knowing her as a grown and totally desirable woman were two different things. “Can we talk business now, instead of all this touchy-feely crap?” He went back to looking over his lists.
“Whatever.” Levi was silent a moment, then said, “Does Laurel know you’re in love with her?”
