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“Okay, then,” the ex says to me. “I guess you win.” He gives Ava a long look, and then he walks away. He gets into a Honda and drives away. Once he’s turned the corner, she peers up at me.
“I, uh…I need to get back to work. But thanks.”
“Thanks?” I echo. Is she really not going to address the giant elephant in the parking lot with us?
“For scaring him off. Hopefully that’s the last I’ll hear from him.” She clears her throat. “Oh, did you come by for something?”
Yes, I fucking came by for something. But I’m blanking on what it was since all I can think about is the fact that she was a virgin before she met me and now she isn’t and I’m the person who took that from her.
Me.
Why me?
Why did she lie?
I blow out a breath. “I did.”
“What was it?”
“Are we really not going to talk about the virgin comment?” I hiss.
She draws in a deep breath. “I need to get back to work. We can talk about it later.”
“Fine.” I clear my throat. “We’ve got another problem. He took a photo of us.”
“So?”
“So…what will he do with it?”
She shrugs. “Who knows. Sell it to the highest bidder? Use it for insurance and leverage? But who cares?”
“I care,” I say through a clenched jaw. “I don’t want your brother seeing them and getting the wrong idea.”
“Is it the wrong idea, though?” she challenges. “We did have sex.”
I glance around, completely at a loss as to what the fuck I’m supposed to do or say right now. “Because you lied to me. Apparently about more than one thing.”
“I didn’t lie about a damn thing,” she says sharply. “You never asked whether I’d had sex before, and some people really do call me Cookie.”
“A lie of omission is still a lie!” I roar.
“Not when it never came up!” she yells, defending herself.
“I’m not talking about the virginity thing!” I yell back, and then I draw in a breath to force myself to calm down. I lower my voice. “You. Your name. Your identity. You kept it from me, and I fucked you, and that made me betray my best friend. Don’t you get that?”
“So we don’t tell him, then.” Her voice is so flippant. “It’s not like I send him a weekly list of my conquests. Do you?”
“You don’t even have conquests!” I yell with a heavy dose of exasperation as the realization that I fucked my best friend’s virgin sister still hasn’t quite hit me. “Do you just, like, lie by omission to everybody? Because I can’t honestly be with someone who does that.”
She looks taken aback by my words. “No, I don’t. But don’t stand here and tell me you always tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
“Are you accusing me of lying?”
She purses her lips. “Did you ever tell my brother that you kissed Mindy at his college graduation party?”
I take a step back as if she just issued a physical blow. “How do you know about that?”
“Because I have eyeballs.” She rolls them for effect then holds out her hands. “Well?”
