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“I don’t get her.” Miles leaned in on my window and curled his nose in disgust. “Wednesday, she acted like you didn’t exist.”
“Wednesday?”
“At Fiddler's,” he shrugged like I knew what he was talking about, but I didn’t, and there was no time to ask him before his radio started up with a call he had to respond to. “Oh good,” he moaned sarcastically, “Must be time to get the Murphy twins. Gotta get back to work.”
Jesse
Yep. Safe and sound. ;-)
After driving home, I texted Jesse to ensure she was okay. Three days later, I was still staring at her words and the stupid thumbs-up I had given her in return.
There had been so much training on Sunday, that I didn’t get to talk to Rory, so I was staying late Monday morning, hoping for the chance before we both left. While I waited for her to appear, I sat in the day room with Daniel, who was eyeing me from the recliner as I continued to stare at my phone.
My best friend had no idea that the stupid smile on my face was because of a semi colon. Sure, the four words and the closed parenthesis did it for me as well, but it was that “wink” she gave me that had me slowly spinning into the spineless pussy I had told her I was no longer going to be.
Miles was right, I needed to be locked up.
“Let me guess,” Daniel cleared his throat. “The ‘no charge’ chick?”
My eyes popped up to his, shocked at how right he was when I had been so careful not to mention her since the day she came to the station.
“Rory?” I questioned randomly, wanting to know if that was how he heard about my obsession.
“Rory?” He asked back, looking confused. “She’s the girl that has that look on your face?”
“What? No!”
“No?” Rory asked from behind me, standing in the doorway.
There was no telling how much she heard. Thankfully, not much was said. However, her arrival into the dayroom was exactly why I was there.
“We need to talk,” I stood up. “You and I need to get something straight.”
“Let’s talk outside,” she gritted between clenched teeth, looking angry. What reason did she have to be angry with me? I didn’t do anything. “Not here.”
Her eyes flicked to Daniel’s and I nodded, letting her lead the way out of the room. As we passed Captain Reed’s office, I looked in and nodded at him as well. His glower told me to fix my shit and get on with work, so that was all I intended to do.
Rory, on the other hand, got to the garage and spun around on her boots, throwing her hands in the air as if she was the one that had any right to be angry.
“What the hell are you doing?” She yelled.
“Excuse me?”
“The girl,” she yelled even louder,makingme glance around to confirm the rest of the crew was still inside somewhere.
“This isn’t your business,” I huffed, almost wanting to laugh at how absurd she was being.
“We weren’t supposed to ever see her again.”
What the hell was she talking about?Weweren’t supposed to do anything.
“I’m trying to save you from the one thing you never wanted, but you’re making it hard to be a good friend, Easton.”
All I could do was shake my head and back up, away from whatever toxic air she was breathing. Not once, in my entire life, had I ever asked her to cockblock me. Especially when it came to Jesse.
“I don’t know what you’re getting at Rory, but I know you took a binder from my truck. I know Captain Reed took it fromyou and I’m supposed to be out here telling younicelyto back the fuck off.”
Her sigh was full of frustration. Her shoulders slumped and she placed her hands on her hips and murmured, “Whatever. I found that binder in the parking lot.”
