“Oh, girl.” She giggles again. “I knew you had a thing for both of them.”
“This face can’t lie, sadly.” I stuff a big piece of cake into my mouth to avoid admitting anything else. “Mftf foffee?”
“Yes, I’ll have some more coffee, thanks.”
I swallow. “You should drink less coffee.”
“Yet here you are, offering it to me. As for you, you were supposed to cut down on sugar.”
“Yeah, well.” I take a dainty sip from my cup. “Stress requires sugar.”
“So you can climb the walls better?”
“Something like that.” I grin at her.
“Ew, your teeth are covered in chocolate.”
“And you have a tick under your eye,” I fire back.
She spits out coffee as she laughs, and then I’m dissolving into giggles, too, and everything seems better with the world.
“Were you really jealous of Atticus?” I ask when we’ve calmed down a bit.
“Maybe a little. I mean, look at the man! I want someone like him giving me looks of adoration, too.”
“He didn’t!”
“He absolutely did! I want a sexy daddy, too.”
“Oh my God, June, you’re out of control.”
Afterward, we lounge on my heart-shaped sofa and watch trash TV, eating fresh popcorn out of the microwave oven.
“What about Zach, then?” she asks after fishing the last popcorn out of the bowl.
“What about him?”
“Are you going to take his class after all?”
“I completely forgot about that. But yeah, now you mention it, it might be a good idea. Self-defense.” I frown. “Or would a pepper spray work better?”
“And that alpha at the bar who got into a fight with Atticus?” she asks.
He had almost slipped my mind with everything happening. “Ryder...”
“He’s an inker.”
“Inker?” I hug a fluffy pillow to my chest and lick salt off my lips.
“Tattoo artist. At Ink and Shadows.”
“Really? You know him?”
“Yeah...” She puts the empty bowl down and picks up a peppermint chocolate from the plate I set on the coffee table in front of us. “I visited once with Gigi, and Ronin introduced us to the other artists.”
I frown and click to stop the stupid zombie movie we are sort of watching. “Right...”
“Atticus came close to punching him in the face.” June sighs. “That was hot.”
