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But hanging out with Georgia’s brothers and their friends was not as bad as I’d expected it to be. Georgia and I had gone to dinner with her parents twice, and I’d even been to two family dinners since we’d made it official. But her siblings had just laughed because, apparently, they’d known we were together before we’d ever admitted it.
I was seated around an oval-shaped poker table covered in green felt. I sat between Hugh’s best friends, Brax and Travis. Finn was across from me, sitting between Hugh and Cage. We’d finished playing and were just drinking and shooting the shit now, and Travis was bitching about Finn taking everyone’s money.
“You take our money and have the nerve to stare at your phone the whole night?” Travis grumped.
The dude made me seem like a ray of sunshine. Travis was also Lila’s brother, and he was a self-proclaimed moody bastard. But he blamed it on the fact that his new baby boy did not sleep much.
“It’s Reese,” Finn said as he typed into his phone. “We haven’t talked much because she’s in a different time zone.”
I had no idea what we were talking about, and Hugh picked up on it. “Reese is Finn’s best friend. She’s also my mom’s best friend’s daughter, and we all grew up together. She’s been in London the past six months, and they can’t go very long without talking.”
“They’re like two fucking schoolgirls. Why don’t you just date her already?” Cage said over his laughter, and Finn’s head shot up with a death glare. I may not have known them long, but I could recognize when someone had crossed the line, and Cage definitely had.
“It’s fucking Reese, asshole. She’s my best friend. And if you recall, she was engaged to someone.”
“Wasbeing the point of my question. She isn’t engagednow,” Cage said as he reached for his beer and took a pull.
Finn flipped him the bird and ignored him as he continued texting.
“He’d never risk fucking that up,” Hugh finally said, reaching for some pizza rolls in the middle of the table and popping them into his mouth.
“So, how about you?” Brax asked, turning his attention to me. “You and Georgie are a thing, right? How does that work at the office?”
It works fucking great. We spent every waking minute together. We had sex at work and at home. But I obviously wouldn’t be sharing that.
“She’s not my assistant anymore. She’s the creative director, and she’s kicking ass at work. So, it works just fine.”
“He knows he’ll be hunted down and tortured slowly if he hurts her,” Cage said as he winked at me.
“I’m not afraid of you assholes. But Brinkley terrifies the shit out of me. Every time I see her, she whispers some kind of threat in my ear, but then follows it with a friendly goodbye.”
Hugh had just taken a long pull from his bottle, and he coughed so hard, Cage pounded on his back.
“I’m fine.” He barked out a laugh. “Fucking Brinks. She’s the most terrifying Reynolds out there. Georgia is all sunshine and unicorns. But Brinkley, man, she doesn’t play around. Just don’t fuck it up.” Hugh smirked.
“Trust me, there’s a very good chance I’ll fuck it up. This is new for me,” I admitted, because they were all good dudes.
“Listen, if these two can pull it off, you’ll be fine.” Travis flicked his thumb at Hugh and Brax.
“When you know, you know,” Hugh said. “Man, did I get hit hard when Lila came home last summer.”
“He was so pussy whipped over Lila. I saw it long before any of these fuckers did,” Brax said.
“Do not use the word pussy and my sister in the same sentence when I’m sitting here. I do not want to hear that. And speaking of pussy-whipped motherfuckers, take a look in the mirror, dickhead.”
They went on to tell me how he’d fallen hard for his girlfriend Frannie, and now, they were inseparable. They were living together, and he was thinking of proposing soon.
My stomach wrenched. I didn’t have a fucking clue what I was doing, but I knew I was crazy about her.
I hadn’t told her that I loved her, which was cowardly. Because I did. But I knew once I said the words, there would be no going back.
“Hey, don’t overthink it. Everyone goes at their own pace. I fought it every step of the way,” Hugh said as he studied me.
“Things are going well.”
“You doing something special for her birthday?” Cage asked. “The girl loves her birthday. She celebrates it all month, so get ready for all the birthday talk.”
My chest squeezed. I didn’t know when her birthday was. We’d talked about so much, but that had never come up. I should have checked her fucking paperwork from her employment file. This is the shit I should know.
