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It would cause us both to get fines, but it was worth it not to have to make any extra trips.
That, and I wanted to get some alone time with Briley before I took off on her for a month.
Briley assured me this morning as we were sitting down for breakfast at a diner in Benton that she would be fine and was actually looking forward to not spending a few days in multiple different hotel rooms.
Which was when I started to feel bad, because I hadn’t realized that she felt that way.
“I heard a bit of Briley and your conversation,” Titus said, reading my thoughts.
We’d been best friends for years. Sometimes it felt like he knew me better than I knew me.
“Yeah?” I asked.
“Yeah,” Titus groaned. “And I hate to say it, man, but I think I agree with her. We need to find a more permanent solution.”
My brows rose. “How do you expect to do that?”
He was already shaking his head. “An arranged marriage with Blue would be nice.”
A breath of shocked laughter had me grinning wickedly.
Blue was his high school crush. A high school crush that’d turned into a life-long crush, it seemed.
Hell, I’d had my own crush in high school. Her name was Tempy, and I thought at one point, when my life was a little less busy, I’d go back to her and see if we could try things out.
Only, things had never calmed down in my life. They just kept getting busier.
But after meeting Ari…yeah, I didn’t think that Tempy was going to even be a glimmer in the back of my mind anymore.
Blue was it for Titus, though.
One day, they’d be together.
I had the utmost confidence in that prediction.
“We’ll figure it out,” I grumbled. “Even if I have to quit and stay home with them.”
Titus whipped his head around in shock. “What?”
I twisted my neck left, then right, hearing a few pops before I turned back to Titus. “I don’t want our kids to be unhappy. And just sayin’, but being away from them, as well as having to be here, do this, or get fined, is the fuckin’ worst.”
“Fined?”
I turned to look over my shoulder and found Ari on her way to us, a ticket in one hand and her carry-on in the other.
“Yeah,” I sighed as I shrugged. “We got fined for not arriving with the team.”
Her mouth fell open.
“How much did you get fined?” Ari asked with wide eyes.
“Ten grand apiece,” Titus murmured as he studied whatever was on his phone.
“What?” she screeched. “They charged you ten thousand dollars apiece because you didn’t ride the team bus? What the hell is that?”
I loved that she was so defensive.
I loved even more that the way her chest was heaving was making me hard.
