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"Hey, talking to Moht idea," Aidan said

"Yeah but you’re the one who screwed it up"

Aidan blew out a breath "Whatever, man Get out of my way"

"Fine" Gray lifted his hands in surrender "Apparently you haven’t gotten in enough trouble tonight You need more Go for it"

Aidan shoulder-checked hiain He turned, ready to rumble, but it wasn’t his brother, it was Jonathan "Listen, about Lily," he started

Shit Aidan liked Jonathan, he really did But if the guy was about to try to lay some kind of clai to have a proble o after Lily for himself, so it shouldn’t matter one little bit if Jonathan did

But it did matter

A whole hell of a lot "What about her?"

Jonathan paused, searched Aidan’s gaze, and smiled "Never mind You already answered my question"

"Wasn’t aware you asked one"

Jonathan looked away and then back to Aidan "I’m about to overstepbecause I think you need to know it Don’t disappoint me, okay?"

Aidan narrowed his eyes "Is she in some sort of trouble?"

Jonathan relaxed his shoulders and s to disappoint ht?"

"She lost her job"

"And to face her past," Jonathan said "Which we both know sucked She blames herself for what happened to Ashley"

"She shouldn’t," Aidan said

"No shit" Jonathan slid his hands into his pockets "But have you ever successfully talked a wo she wanted to believe?"

Aidan huffed out a barely there laugh "No"

"Yeah So good luck with this one"

"Wait--What?" But Jonathan was already walking back to the bar, whistling to himself like he had no care in the world

Aidan was pretty sure he’d just been tasked with relieving Lily of her guilt, which was a bad idea

The worst of bad ideas

He stepped outside into a su lot on her bare knees fighting with the lug nuts on her back left tire, which was flat When she couldn’t get them loose, she smacked the tire with the wrench

"Yeah, that’s not exactly how to fix it," he said

Her back to him, she went still and tipped her head back to stare up at thesky "Seriously?" she asked it "What have I ever done to you?"