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Boone is in Theron’s face a good thirty feet from us now. His shouting is just noise among the crackling fire and loud voices of the rest of the bonfire brigade. At least he hasn’t hit Theron… Yet. Though, if Theron is being as honest with him as he was forward with the way he greeted me, I’m guessing if Boone was going to hit him, he would have by now.
“For fuck sake, Skye. You just twisted tongues with my brother. I need answers. Now,” Maya demands holding me so tightly there are bound to be marks when she lets go.
“Fine,” I say prying her fingers from my wrist. “What do you want to know?”
“How long?”
“Officially, since my birthday.”
“Officially? What the fuck does that mean? Something was going on before your birthday?” Maya starts to march off in Theron’s direction seething and mumbling, “I’m gonna fucking kill him. Asshole. He fucking knows better.”
“Maya. Stop.” I catch her arm and pull her back to the truck. “He didn’t do anything wrong. He tried to stay away but I wouldn’t leave him alone. We just kissed. Once and then he disappeared until my birthday. That’s it. Just one kiss before my birthday. And I wanted it.”
Maya lets out a breath, her shoulders relaxing a little. I think I’m finally getting through to her. “You’re art. What about your gallery showing?”
“I never would have submitted if Theron hadn’t pushed me to do it.”
“If you get it, you’ll have to leave.”
“He knows that.”
Maya shakes her head. “That doesn’t change who he is. Skye, my brother… You saw him fight with our mom. He gets attached and doesn’t like to let go. Every girlfriend he’s had has broken up with him because he’s clingy. What if he won’t let you go?”
The warmest feeling fills my chest. Like hot chocolate on a freezing winter day. I don’t want him to let me go. I don’t want to let him go either. I don’t know yet what we’ll do if the time comes and I have to leave but I know I want to figure it out with him.
“You have an awesome life planned out, Skye. Don’t let anyone take that away from you,” Maya says.
“Maya…”
“Just be careful, okay?”
“Okay,” I assure her before she throws her arms around me.
“On the upside,” she says. “I’m all for the possibility of us becoming sisters.”
“Can I still tag along?” Penny asks.
Maya and I pull her into our hug. “We’ve always been sisters.”
As I hold Maya and Penny, Theron catches my eye and flashes me a smile from where he’s still taking a verbal beating from Boone.
Maya’s voice echoes in my head again,be careful.
The way my heart expands ready to explode when I look at Theron and think about all the things we’ve done this week and before, it’s safe to say, we left careful behind a long time ago.
twenty-nine
THERON
“Idon’tfuckinglikethis,” Boone says for the third time.
He’s had too much to drink to have this conversation. But if I stop him from having it, he’ll find a way to keep me from seeing Skye. I’m hoping if I just let him get the anger and confusion off his chest, we can move on. I can see Skye without having to sneak around him anymore.
“She’s just a kid,” Boone says.
“She’s eighteen, Boone.”
“For less than a week. You hooked up with her when?”
