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So I do.
I push up onto my tiptoes and press my lips to his. It may be for Colin’s benefit, but I am most definitely the one reaping the rewards.
Grayson slides his arm around my waist to haul me in a little closer. Colin might take another photo—I’m not sure, nor do I care. But he catches the hint that he’s out and Grayson’s in, and as we kiss in front of my ex, I can’t help but wonder what changed Grayson’s mind.
Why did he show up here today? Why did his silver truck skid to a stop? Why did he jump out of said truck to rush to be by my side while I fought with my ex in a bakery parking lot?
And…is he telling Colin the truth? Or am I going to be blindsided by this man yet again?
I settle back down onto my heels even if the rest of me hovers somewhere up in the clouds. I’m sure I’ll get to the truth eventually, but right now…it’s pretty damn sweet up in these clouds.
Chapter 19: Grayson Nash
A Lie of Omission is Still a Lie
Shit.
She just kissed me, and the twerpy ex who is certainly no match for me helped himself to photos, and it’s going to be all over social media by lunchtime.
Which means Beckett will catch wind of it all. He’ll know that I fucked the little sister he told me to take care of, and he’ll smell the betrayal of it all even from where he sits thousands of miles away.
I don’t know what came over me, but when I pulled up to the bakery to confront her and saw him yelling at her in a fucking parking lot, I lost my shit.
This primal instinct to protect her kicked in, and…well, maybe Beckett won’t kick my ass after all—not that he physically could, anyway—if I can make him see that I did what I had to do to protect her from the ex who won’t leave her the hell alone.
The ex is still standing across from us, and I still don’t know what the fuck his name is, nor do I care. “You can run along now,” I say a little more snidely than I probably should. I realize this guy is likely heartbroken, and maybe I should be a little nicer. She broke up with him when she was drunk out of the blue—not out of the blue to her, but it probably was to him.
It’s only been a week, so this is just him trying to win her back. It’s not like this has been going on for months or anything, and to be perfectly honest, he should be fighting for her. She’s worth fighting for. I may not know her very well, but I know her well enough to know that.
He’s never going to win against me, so I’m really just helping to push him out of the picture.
“So when you say next level,” the ex begins. “Do you mean sex?”
“That’s none of your business,” Ava snaps at him.
“Does he know you’re a virgin?” he asks.
All the air deflates out of my chest.
She’s…
She’s a virgin?
“Of course he knows,” she snaps.
Hold the fucking phone here, pal.
She’s a what now?
I put on the performance of my life as I force myself not to give away the fact that I had no idea I took her virginity.
I wondered. I suspected.
But to hear it confirmed—and by this idiot ex, no less—is a gut punch.
“Well, to be fair…she’s not anymore,” I say, my voice low and hoarse.
Ava gasps, the ex looks like he’s about to vomit, and I feel like I just got run over by a truck.
