Page 6 of Against The Boards

She arched a perfectly sculpted eyebrow at me. “Why do you care?”

I sighed, and Noah gave me a concerned look. Noah was too nice, so he didn’t handle confrontation like this well. I wished I could be like him. I wished I could let things roll off my back, but I was a hothead.

“Sorry for making conversation!” I snapped back.

We glared at each other from across the room.

TJ pointed at us. “Can you two stop being children and be civil?”

Rox shook her head. At least she wasn’t glaring at me anymore. “You know what? I’m exhausted from the drive this morning. I’m gonna head back to my hotel and take a nap.”

TJ sighed. “Okay. Let me drive you.”

She glared at him. “I’m perfectly capable of finding my way back there on my own, thank you very much.”

“Roxie.”

“Tristan.”

The twins exchanged a long look, and I swear they were communicating telepathically. Finally, she huffed out a groan and nodded.

“Hey, you’re gonna come over later, right?” Noah asked her.

Rox furrowed her brow. “For what?”

“Dinah and I are having a housewarming party.”

Rox smiled and nodded. “Yeah, bud, I’ll come over.”

“Dinah will want to see you,” Noah said with a smile. The dude was all smiles now that he and his lady had smoothed out their issues.

“I want to see her too. That lady gets me.”

I snorted at that. Noah’s girl could be blunt, so it made sense that the two women got along. Rox fixed me with another glare before storming out of the condo. TJ gave me a glare that mirrored his sister’s before he followed behind her.

I sighed when they left, but Noah started laughing.

“What’s so funny?” I asked.

“Benny, be honest.”

“About what?”

He narrowed his blue eyes at me. “Dude! You two kinda get off on it, eh?”

I glared at him. “What are you talking about?”

“Fighting! Sometimes I feel like I’m watching some fucked up mating ritual.”

“We don’t get off on it,” I lied.

Okay, he had a point because she looked hot when she was all flustered. I didn’t do it on purpose, though. Not all the time.

Noah squinted at me for a moment. “You two should do us all a favor and finally bang it out.”

“What?”

He did not just suggest that.