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"I love you," I cried as I cah cry, he followed h the casino to the valet "I need a shower," I o

He squeezed ht that no one came into the bathroom"

"True I doubt we could have pulled that off if it wasn’t nearly four in theotten ourselves arrested in the process"

I rolled my eyes

"I think I fucked the drunk out of you I’ll have to reled, because I ay more sober than I’d been e’d started, so it was kind of true

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

My next jealous fit had a different start, but the sa between Tristan and I seemed to end with sex Good sex Great sex The best sex

A feeeks after Dean and Tristanparty The place was packed, so packed that once I lost sight of Tristan, he stayed lost for a good thirtywas up when Dean cornered me in the kitchen the second ere separated

"Chinese and English," was how he began, reain why I didn’t like hiue start, because I’d played this gaaa brothers was that neither had ever played this stupid ga," I told him, my tone flat

"Swedish and Vietna and wrong"

"Why don’t you likeone of my best friends You should try to be nice"

"Ditto"

"You never even save him a forced smile that was all teeth "Better?" I asked

He nodded, not acknowledging ian"

I rolled h Japanese and Russian" It was always an aard subject for me, since I’d never know the other half of that equation

"That’s a fucking hot mix, let ot the best of both"

"Gee, thanks, you sweet talker"

"Sassy piece of work My favorite kind I bet you fuck like a wildcat"

He was crowding me into the counter, and I pushed on his shoulders, officially done with the conversation

He didn’t budge, just pushing closer

"What is your proble up shit?"

His sht things up just to watch the past him and away, troubled as to whether I should tell Tristan about how Dean had just acted It seeet Tristan mad at his friend and bandmate, or at me Lose-lose

I found Jared passed out on Tristan’s bed, Cory in the living roo out with so with people I’d never seen before No one knehere Tristan was, and the apart to figure out that he had to be out on the balcony, or gone

The balcony that attached to the apart roo it look like no one was out there I checked anyway

Tristan was out there, and he wasn’t alone

I’d only nized her even fro Apparently she’d made an impression on me

I stepped out onto the balcony oh so quietly

Tristan’s profile was facing arette and giving his ex his inscrutable smile

She had both of her hands on his chest, leaning into him, her voice low and earnest as she spoke quietly to hiht red, and so it was easy to follow their movements as she stroked them over his chest to punctuate her words

Her voice was soft, but I caught a bit of what she was saying

"I saw your new girlfriend What is she, like, sixteen? What the hell, Tristan?"

Tristan’s mouth twisted into his bitter smile "Well, she’s not sixty, so I can see why you’d be confused"

She shtly, and her tone was et over that? And when did you start robbing the cradle?"

"Jealous, Nat?"

Every word they exchanged denoted a sense of their history The fact that both of their voices held a strange note of affection as they said to each other told s that I really didn’t want to hear

My heart twisted in my chest