“When’s the final time you ate?” she asks. Yep. Proper on cue.

“Dunno,” I say, turning again to my desk. “What day is it?”

Kenna snorts, although neither of us discover it humorous. She’s quiet lengthy sufficient, and after a few minutes I overlook she’s there.

“You recognize you’re being an fool, proper?” she says, startling me sufficient that I to show to have a look at her. “Possibly I have to be extra particular.”

“By all means,” I say, waving a hand.

“These two would do something for you,” she says, stopping me after I shake my head. “I’m critical. I noticed the three of you, keep in mind? Greater than as soon as.”

The quick weeks I had with Cooper and Bailey have been on replay in my head nonstop. I do know what she means.

“Have you ever tried speaking to them?” she asks.

“They don’t wish to discuss to me,” I mutter.

“That’s an enormous fats ‘no.’ How are you aware they don’t wish to discuss to you if you happen to haven’t tried?”

I know how Bailey checked out me earlier than she left. I do know Cooper’s gone radio silent. If he wasn’t importing movies he put collectively weeks in the past, I’d be frightened one thing might need occurred to him, however he nonetheless posts his stuff proper on schedule.

“I do know,” I say, making an attempt to get her off my again. Kenna snorts.

“I didn’t take you for such a flake,” she says, sounding disgusted.

“What are you speaking about?” She’s pissing me off. After weeks of this grey, foggy indifference, it’s sort of a reduction to really feel offended once more. “I gave up—”

“Yeah, yeah,” she says, speaking over me till I shut my mouth. “I’ve heard all about how a lot you had to surrender. But right here we’re, me wiping your snotty nostril once more.” She ignores my protest and continues. “It is advisable to get them again.”

“It’s not that straightforward,” I say, shocked into momentary silence.

“Duh,” says Kenna. “I doubt something is straightforward between the three of you. However you didn’t signal on for easy, did you? Or straightforward? Or uncomplicated? That’s not why you get entangled with two folks without delay. Particularly not folks like Bailey. Or Cooper, for that matter.”

“They may have referred to as,” I say defensively. “They may have mentioned one thing the previous couple of weeks. Why is it on me to make the primary transfer?”

“Since you’re the one one dwelling in your head, dummy.” Kenna leans ahead, jabbing her finger into my chest like she means it. “You’re the one pining for them. The one individual you possibly can management is you. So what the hell are you ready for? Go get them again.”

30

Cooper

“Beck. Beck!” The place is that rattling idiot bartender while you want him?

“For crying out loud, Cooper, I’m standing proper right here.” And so, certainly he’s. Beck seems earlier than me like magic, summoned by the ability of my hangover. At the very least, that’s the best way it appears to me.

I pull my stool up nearer to the bar and Beck eyes me warily. It’s been weeks of this—consuming myself silly, staggering upstairs to sleep it off, then coming again for extra after I can’t take one other hour of humiliation by the hands of the web.

Practically three weeks of this. Nineteen days, however who’s counting?

Beck’s simply standing there, tapping his fingers on the bar.

“You’ve single-handedly doubled my order for Jim Beam this week,” he says.

“You’re welcome, asshole,” I say, about to order my normal, however Beck’s expression is pinched. Like he’s bracing himself.

I don’t even blame him. He’s had to assist me upstairs greater than as soon as the previous couple of weeks. So has Rusty. I’m not pleased with it.

I do know I did the fitting factor. I knew from the outset there was no approach it might work between …us.

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