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Wait, Felix, Ford, and RJ? My brows shot up. Now I had so many questions.
Leo sighed dreamily as he smiled at my bass player, and I caught the way he looked at me before he glanced away. “RJ is a good guy. He’ll treat you right. Don’t you worry.”
“Are you sure about that?” It came out as a growl.
Leo stood up. “I can’t...I need to leave.”
“Wait.” I jumped to my feet, Ford protesting as polish smeared over my finger and onto the table. Dad was going tobe pissed about that, but at this moment, I didn’t care. “Ricky, I just...I can’t stand the thought of someone else touching you.”
He turned to glare at me, tears glistening in his eyes. “Maybe you should have thought of that before you broke up with me, Andy. I loved you; I would have done anything for you, and that included claiming we could be friends after you broke up with me. Spoiler alert, I can’t. I wanted forever with you, but all you wanted was yourfreedom.”
“Bravo, boo!” Loud clapping caused the three of us to turn to the doorway. Ezra was standing outside on the porch, his dark eyes narrowed on me. “Come on, let’s go.”
Leo frowned. “Go? Go where?”
“Home. Yours or mine. It doesn’t matter. I want to get you as far away from him as possible.” Ezra stepped into the house, and I found myself moving away from him.
I’d lied when I’d said I wasn’t afraid of him. He was furious and terrifying when he was angry. Like a smaller version of the hulk with claws.
Leo shook his head. “Ez, I’m fine.” Only his voice trembled enough to give him away.
“What did you do now, Andrew? What did you say? I will end you!” Ezra started toward me just as my dad came rushing into the room.
“Ezra!” he exclaimed, placing a hand on his chest. “Boo, listen to me. While I appreciate your loyalty, like I said earlier, you need to let them figure this out themselves. Jax and I did. So did you and Carson. We can’t meddle; as much as we want to.”
Ezra’s lip turned into a snarl. “You’ve been meddling without me, boo, and I don’t like it. You know what he did to Leo. You saw the tears he cried. The way he crumbled into pieces. I can’t bear the thought of him going through that pain again. He’s a good kid.”
“I know,” Dad murmured and wrapped Ezra in a hug. “Andy is a good kid, too. He’s just made a few mistakes. We’ve all been there.”
I felt sick. I knew I had hurt Leo, but the fact that everyone else saw it, had helped pick him up and had breathed life back into him, made me feel even worse than I already did. I let out a low moan, then hurried up to my room and dropping face down on the bed. I screamed into the mattress, over and over again. I didn’t care if I blew out my voice or ruined my career. I was a horrible person who didn’t deserve all this happiness. Never mind someone as amazing as Leo.
The sound of my door locking had me twisting onto my back. Leo gave me a shy smile, and I stared at him as he moved to lie down next to me. He carded his fingers through my hair, his touch soft and calming.
“Why are you being so nice to me?” I whispered. The itch to touch him was nearly overwhelming.
Leo shrugged. “Thought you could use a friend.”
“A friend?”
“Yeah, hon, a friend.”
I started to sit up, but when Leo placed his head on my chest, right over my heart, I stopped and wrapped my arms around him instead. The sweet scent of him was everywhere, and I couldn’t stop the tears that began to slip down my cheeks and into my ears.
“Your dad is talking some sense into Ezra while Ford cleans up the mess from the polish,” Leo murmured against my chest. He glanced up to meet my gaze. “Want to talk about it now?”
I didn’t. “No.”
“Want me to go?” he asked.
I tightened my grip around him. “Stay, please, Ricky.”
“Of course.” He didn’t say anything else as he placed his cheek against my chest. “RJ and I are only friends. He’s never even shown any interest in me at all.”
I grunted at the thought of RJ touching Leo at all. I had always liked RJ, but it pissed me off to think Leo had confided in him and not me. “Can we talk about something else?”
“He’s very bi-curious.”
“Leo, I mean it. Stop it.”
