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"You can askyou want," he says He looks into ive you the answers" He arches a blond eyebrow "Do you really want to knohere I learned that?"
I push off of hi azine, silly" He laughs "I wasn’t even sure it would work" His laughter rumbles around the room It’s such a welcome sound He looks down his nose at me "Did it work?"
"Oh, heck yeah," I breathe It worked
He kisses an
I follow E on her sofa in nothing more than a pair of boxers He has one hand stuck in the waistband of his underwear and the other is behind his head He’s completely oblivious to the fact that we’re there What the fuck, I sign
He didn’t knoere co or not He doesn’t live here And he doesn’t live alone This is shit
"Trip," Emily calls She picks up a couch pillow and throws it at his head "Put soht Then he sees " He nods at an," he says
"Trip," I say with a nod E back "A courier cao with some clothes I put them on your bed"
Her head shoots around the corner "My roorins I want to punch his fking face
"It’s not like I’ve never been in your roo, and this time, I start toward hi her hands on o see what o with her as soon as I deal with Trip "You go ahead I’ll be there in just a an," she says Stop it
Stop what? I go and sit down on the couch beside Trip, cross my foot over o shower I’ll catch up with you in a minute"
E Not until I tell Trip a few things he needs to know Youyou two do is rather rude," Trip says snidely, looking fro?" I ask I sn, Go ahead I won’t hurt him I promise
You swear it?
I draw an x over the center of oes into her bedrooo," he says I i at the TV and not ather ex-boyfriend in her apart but his boxers" I smile at hiirlfriend first," he says He reet her way
"I’rit ht co up the Bro Code, dude," I say
"Bro Code?" he asks "We’d have to be Bros"--he draws quotes in the air--"for that to be a concern, wouldn’t we?"
I nudge his shoulder with mine playfully…and forcefully "Oh, we’re Bro’s You just don’t know it yet I can be your best friend or I can be your worst ene with irl Or while you’re in your boxers" I look down at the offending ite clothes on when you’re outside your roo to stay so calh he’s laboring over soan, that’s just it This is ht now So I can walk around dressed any way I like"
"Well, in that case," I start I get up, stretching broadly "Emily and I will just have to stay in her room for a bit Until you can decide to put some clothes on" I pat his nad knee and flash a conspiratorial grin "There wasn’t a TV in her roorin falters "But I’ to occupy the tiht now One--so you don’t have to hearhim I’m deaf "And two--so you could be alone with her in her room Naked" I make a tsk, tsk, tsk with my mouth "Of course, if you were dressed, ould be able to hang out here with you"
He gets up and sto lounge pants and a T-shirt
"Thank you," I say
"You’re not welcome," he replies He sits up and looks at ht?" he says
"I know you fked it up by insulting her" I crossEmily stupid makes hs "Is that what she told you?" He starts to flip channels on the TV
He’s baiting me, but I can’t stop "Only a royal duets up and walks toward the kitchen He pats ets incherry"
He er in my face because he suddenly backs up
But he knows he hasabout intiht back the urge the punch him
"Oh, that bothers you, doesn’t it?" he asks "The fact that I’ve been inside her I’ve had her on top of me and under me and with her mouth wrapped around my--"
I shove him so hard that his head hits the wall I can feel the vibration of it in the floor "Shut it," I say
"Why?" He grins "Are You Having Trouble Following?" He says it slowly "I fked your girl" He shrugs "Or you’re fking irl? I don’t knohich it is But I know I don’t have to like it She’ll get tired of you, and when she does, I’ll be here with her daddy’s blessing, waiting to put a ring on her finger"
"It’ll never happen," I growl I want to pound his face into the wall, but I know I can’t
"Wait and see," he says
"Get your own place to live and stay out of her life, Shit"
He grits his teeth "It’s Trip"