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“Do you think I don’t care?” he asks, and I shrug. Real mature, I know.
“You left,” I say, my voice pinching at the end, tight in my throat as the emotions of last night fill the words.
“Huh?”
“You left me there last night. That was a real dick move.”
“You looked like you were, I don’t know—“
“What? Terrified by the big oaf that forced his face on me?”
“Wait, what?”
“Yeah, so awesome, heaps of fun.”
“I didn’t know. I thought you…”
“Well, now you know.”
“Hey,” he says, squeezing my arm. “I’m sorry I ran away.”
I never said he ran… oh.
“Did you run away because you thought I was having fun with that guy?”
He bites his upper lip.
“Maybe.”
“Were you pretending to be asleep when I came back?”
“Maybe.”
“Why didn’t you just talk to me?”
“Why didn’t you tell me that Carter was your brother?”
My cheeks warm, and he smiles, sending a flurry across my gut.
“So, maybe I wanted to make you jealous.”
“It worked.”
“Really?”
He nods. “A lot. Probably helps that you two look nothing alike.”
I laugh. “We’re adopted.”
“Sorry.”
“Don’t be. I was lucky an amazing family chose to have me for their son. I got picked. You just got stuck with the people who made you.”
We laugh, and the barista calls my name.
“People are going to think our rivalry is over when they see us walking back together,” Ian says, and I shrug.
“I’ll flip you off later.”
