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"You’re so sweet," I tease

"You know it" She throws me one last smile Then, she turns on her heel and heads out the door

"Well, that was interesting," Tate says as he moves behind the wheelchair and starts to wheelis a word for it"

"She seery but nice"

"M the waters

"Do I like her?"

"Do you think she’s fuckable?" I clarify

"She’s hot for sure" He muses "But she’s not my type"

"No? She looks like your usual type"

"Unlike yours, which is anything goes"

"Variety is the spice of life, baby bro"

We reach the elevator Tate presses the button and comes to stand in front of hs "No She’s all yours"

"I never said I wanted her"

"Sure you don’t"

"I don’t I just want to fuck her" Even if she is theher e finally do it

"Isn’t that the saht you nothing?"

He laughs again "Sorry to tell you, Gabe, but sex is going to be the last thing you’ll want to do when you’re in a cast It’s uncomfortable as hell Add that in with the pain you’ll be in And I know you don’t like to take painkillers"

Yeah, because I kno easy it is to get addicted to that shit

I fron atable to have sex I’ve clearly been too obsessed with thinking about screwing Speedy I didn’t even consider the fact that I ht not be able to And it’s not like I’d be able to showbedroom skills off to her with my foot like this

That means I can’t have sex with her until I’ to take to heal?" I ask Tate just as the elevator doors open

"Depends on what the X-ray shows," he says as he roan

Six weeks

Six fucking weeks to wait before I can get inside Speedy

Well, that sucks

The doors on the elevator close

"So, a Srowl

"Ah, co h "Get it off your chest"

"Fuck, this is so exciting I don’t knoho to tell first"

"Anyone but that fucker Vaughn West because, the oes silent behind me

I crane my neck to look at hi?"

He lifts his eyes frohn, of course"

Ava

I walk out of the hospital, car keys in hand

Gabe ht be a monumental pain in the ass and wind me up like nobody’s business, but I put him in this position withI can to help hiood idea, too, but, honestly, in an odd way, it’s actually fun, sparring with him

If not a little surreal

If you’d told le, homeless as of tomorrow, and jobless and that I would hit Gabriel Evans with my car, break his foot, and spend a few hours verbally sparring with hihed in your face

Funny how life can change in the blink of an eye