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He’s not Batman. He’s not Superman. He’s…Grayman?
I’ll come up with something later.
“What’s going on here?” Grayson asks, stopping when he’s standing beside me, and it feels like I have someone on my side facing off against the ex who can’t seem to take a hint.
And then he slips his arm around my shoulders.
He draws me into his side.
Grayson Nash draws me into his side.
The man who’s mad at me for lying to him is here for me.
I’m not quite sure if this is reality or if I’m so exhausted from the morning rush that I’m hallucinating.
“Holy shit. You’re Grayson Nash,” Colin murmurs, immediately recognizing him. I may have left out the little detail that I knew Grayson in a former life. I wasn’t exactly keen on chatting about my former crushes with my current boyfriend, so Grayson never really entered the conversation.
“This is the ex I told you about,” I say quietly to Grayson.
“Oh.” He tightens his arm around my shoulder as if the very thought that I was with the man standing across from us physically pains him.
He doesn’t know that he’s the sole owner of my V-card.
And the way he’s holding onto me so possessively should be a huge red flag, but it isn’t. Instead, it’s barbaric and overly macho and really, really sexy.
“Well I’m here now, so you can run along,” he says.
I nearly die on the very spot where I stand as the words drop from his lips.
“Excuse me?” Colin asks.
“She’s mine,” Grayson says, and he puffs his chest out a little. It’s a confident move, and Colin is exactly zero match for the athlete currently leaning down to press his lips to my temple.
Colin grabs his phone out of his pocket and snaps a photo of the two of us. I’m not sure what the hell he thinks he’s going to do with that photo, but he’s got it.
I sort of want a copy, but I stop myself short of asking him to send it to me.
“She’s mine,” Colin says. “She’s been mine for five years, and I’m not letting her go without a fight.”
“Why don’t we go ahead and let her decide instead of acting like a couple of fools outside her bakery when she only wants to get back to work?” Grayson suggests.
It’s like the man knows exactly what to say. He’s confident in his suggestion, but Colin is stupid. He’s no match for Grayson, yet he’s standing here thinking he is when he’s literally the one trying to claim me just because we were together for five years. If the length of time we’ve known each other is a factor, Grayson’s actually got him by a long shot, not that he’d ever know that.
“Ava?” Colin says at the same time Grayson says, “Cookie?”
I lean into Grayson a little as my eyes find Colin’s. “I’m sorry, but I’m with Grayson now.”
Colin’s jaw drops clean to the ground—figuratively, of course. He points at me. “You were with him all along, weren’t you? Wait a minute. Were you cheating on me with him?”
I roll my eyes. “Don’t be ridiculous.”
Grayson looks down at me, and there’s a question there in his eyes, as if he wants to say something but isn’t sure he should. I’m not exactly sure what he’s asking, but he exudes this warmth that makes me trust him. I gently incline my head a little to tell him to go ahead with whatever it is he wants to say.
“She was faithful to you all along, man.” Grayson shakes his head a little. “Not that I didn’t want her to give you up years ago.”
“Years ago?” Colin repeats, narrowing his eyes at the two of us. “What do you mean by that?”
“Oh, he doesn’t know?” he asks, turning to me. He turns back to Colin. “Little Ava Maxwell and I go back many, many years. Her oldest brother is my best friend, and we’ve known each other since…” He trails off and glances down at me. “Since she was single digits, anyway. And now we’ve decided to take our relationship to the next level, if you catch my drift. Sorry it wasn’t you.” He ends with a shrug, and I could freaking kiss him right now.
