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"You and Sahtly, and I looked down at ot evenher chin on the front seat

"How did you--" Liam looked at my phone He deflated "Sam told you?"

"Well, thank God It’s about time you knew," Darla huffed "You people and your secrets" She stared pointedly at me "Ooh! Can I tell him all about yours?"

"Shut up, Darla," I said absentmindedly, as if it had become a reflex

"When did she become such a bitch?" Joe asked Trevor

"When I found ue" I shot hilare

"That would do it," Joe muttered meekly

"Liam?" I barked

"We’re strippers for bachelorette parties Sam didn’t want you to know" The words poured out like a little boy confessing he’d stolen candy froed, as if that let him off the hook, as if he’d just said, We’re fry cooks at Denny’s Sam didn’t want you to know

Relief floodedher?"

"God, no That woman attacked hi wrong with that," came three voices from the backseat in unison

"Is this why you’re all here? To tell ets naked and shakes his dick in front of other woe I was supposed to feel wasn’t there A deeper disappointment replaced it Sam hadn’t trusted me

And without trust

"We do way more than just shake our" Liam’s protests faded out "OK That about suling your winkies," Darla chirped

"Says the wo service," Liam jabbed back

The backseat went quiet

"A threeso to look at Darla "There’s no end to the variety of start-ups in Cae, is there?"

She uncharacteristically kept her mouth shut

I continued "Now that we’ve all established our perv credentials--"

"Except for you," Liam interrupted "Miss Pure as the Driven Snow"

Darla snickered

"Don’t you say a word," I snapped, finger in her face as I twisted around

"Oh, does Amy have a skeleton in her closet?" Lia an unbelievably lucky open one right near my front door

"More like in her hoohaw" Snicker

"Shut up!"

We all piled out of the car as the guys exchanged perplexed looks

"Then what do you need to tell me?" I whirled around and faced the four of them

"What you need to know," Joe said, a sad look on his face as he took Darla’s hand in his and walked to

Apparently, I didn’t have a choice

Sam

She wouldn’t answer my texts and calls

She wasn’t at her apartment

She wasn’t on the street

So where the fuck was Ao back to her mom’s house--not after what had happened the other day

Stupid, stupid, stupid I looped inover andstupid and have kept what I did a secret? Now she thought I was throatfucking that chick and cheating on her Aht to be mad and to think the worst of me, but I wanted a chance to tell her the truth

The truth

All of it

The night air had long ago turned ular clothes in his car, because ays showed up for parties dressed only in the uniform I’d received a few "Hello, Officer" comments as I walked the streets, and it had been funny

At first

My feet took o

Back to Amy’s apartment to await our fate

Which was, now, entirely in her hands