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I winced His relationship track record was not stellar With everything going for him—family money, pro career, and his looks—he always ended up with users I knew that better than anyone Bile rose in my throat

“I’m sorry, man”

“Par for the course, right? At least this turned out better than the last time At least she didn’t leave me for you”

I grimaced “That’s not how it

was I’d never have tried so with Felicity, never in a million years if I’d known It wasn’t a competition”

“You’re right You didn’t even know so, but you still won”

The Felicity situation was like a ticking ti down until the next explosion “Get some rest, man You’re drunk”

The sharp clink of ice against glass nearly drowned out his laughter “And why the hell shouldn’t I be drunk? My knee still fucking hurts My girlfriend leftfrom me, and my best friend can’t even take ti schedule to speak to me”

“You need sleep” My jaw tightened Even though he didn’t knoas inthe word in the vicinity of Liv made me want to hit him

“Where’s Olivia and on’t she answer my calls?”

“I don’t know” She hadn’t said anything about ducking him, but with her near panic attacks over medical school, I could see why she would

“Weren’t you supposed to be talking to her? Finding out what’s wrong with her? And now she’s stopped talking to me”

“Maybe she doesn’t want to deal with your shitty attitude”

“Maybe I shouldn’t have trusted you to help me out”

I squeezed the phone so tightlyto her, I don’t bla you”