Page 34 of Happily Ever Maybe

“I might have met him. It’s Sebastian’s brother, right?”

“Yep. So, technically not either of our cousins. We’resecond cousins with him.”

“Please don’t make me do your family tree. I don’t have itin me. I will throw something,” I said, not quite joking.

“It’s true. He will throw something. And it will be all yourfault,” Kingston added.

“So, you and Jen?” Kane put in, and Kingston led out anaudible groan.

“Oh, God. Are you just asking all the tough questionswithout thinking about the consequences? Come on, man. You don’t want this guyto kick your ass. Because he could.”

“That’s so true. And I can.”

“No, you can’t. We all know I’m the stronger one.”

Kingston and I snorted at the same time.

“No, I could totally take you!”

“We are in the parking lot of our building,” Kane said as heheld up his hands.

“Are you not entertained?”

“How many times have you seen that movie?” I asked.

“Enough I can quote it word for word. Come on, Gus-Gus.Let’s see how you roll with those stitches.”

“If you pop one, it won’t only be Jen that kicks your ass.Daisy will, too. Hell, all of us will kick your ass.”

“He’s not going to pop a stitch because I can take him.”

“What is up your ass right now?” I asked, and Kane justshook his head.

“I’m fine.”

“I’m going with women problems,” I said softly towardKingston, who nodded.

“Huge women problems. Big-time women problems. So, who isshe, and what the fuck did you do to ruin it?” Kingstonasked.

Kane sighed and waved his arms between us. “It’s not womenproblems.”

“Well, then, why are you asking about Jen? Trying to put the attention on me rather than anything having to dowith you? I see how it is.”

“I’m not. I promise. I was just wondering. We like Jen. Welike the two of you together. You two have been tiptoeing around each other fora fucking year. I thought once you two slept together,things would be different, but no, you just got weirder.” I froze, looking atKane and then at Kingston.

“Excuse me? How do you know we slept together?”

“Well, the way you acted around each other was different.Still scorching chemistry, but like it was soothed a bit because you got it outof your systems,” Kane replied.

“Plus, you didn’t delete all the backup tapes,” Kingstonsaid with a wince.

The blood drained out of my face before I put my hands on mytemples and rubbed. “Please, tell me you deleted that. And no one actually saw… You didn’t show everyone… Because I’m going tohave to kill you, and then I’ll go to jail, and it’ll be a whole thing. Ireally don’t have it in me to go to jail for killing you.”

Kingston cleared his throat. “It was my turn to go throughthe logs, I only saw the kissing and the shirt pulling. Then I deleted as muchof it as I could.”

“What do you mean by that? As much of it as you could.”

Kingston winced again. “I deleted a chunk of time before andafter. When Noah and Ford do the audit, I’ll deal with it.”