I cocked my head to the side and smiled at her.“It’s shit like that that makes it hard not to fall in love with you.”
“Noah.”She shoved my shoulder.“Be fucking serious for once.Wait.Wait.Wow.I can’t remember the last time you joked around with me.Huh.”
I hitched a shoulder.Maybe the guys were onto something.First the Fun Bobby comparison from Liam, and now Harper of all people was telling me I’d turned into a sad sack.
Fuck.Maybe I did need to get laid.
The thought alone was enough to make my stomach clench.
Or maybe I should get a motorcycle or something instead.
“But really.You need anything, anything, just let me know.”
I nodded.“I’m guessing blow and hookers aren’t on that list?”
“We’re in Vegas.You can find your own blow and hookers.”Harper snorted and shoved my shoulder.
It was nice to have someone get the joke and not immediately worry about my sobriety.
“Have you thought about adopting a dog?”
I stopped at Harper’s question.“Huh.And here I was, just thinking about getting a motorcycle.”
“It might help to have someone or something in your life to take care of, and pets are pretty good at that whole unconditional love thing.Plus, you’re less likely to die adopting a pet than you are if you buy a motorcycle.”
“Or you could do both,” Xander said as he plopped onto the couch on Harper’s other side.“I’d be down to get a bike with you.Do some group rides.We could head up to Red Rock.That’d be killer.”
“Like hell are you getting a motorcycle,” Harper muttered threateningly.“Do you know how many people die every year because of those stupid things?”
I smirked at Xander.No one was forbidding me from getting one.Maybe there was something to this whole single life thing.But to show Xan I’d forgiven him, mostly, I leaned forward to get Harper’s attention.“Any thoughts on where the best place to get a mutt is?”
Harper turned to me and raised her eyebrows.“Alice volunteers at an animal shelter.You should ask her.”
Xander mouthedthank youto me from behind Harper’s back, and I had to suppress my urge to laugh.He was so whipped.
Then what Harper said sank in.Alice.
The same Alice I still had to make amends with.That wasn’t awkward at all.
Maybe I’d get the motorcycle first.
* * *
“So we’ve discovered a little problem within the Tin God ranks,” Chase told the crowd during the middle of our show that night.
When he turned to face me, my blood froze.
Oh shit.
I shook my head furiously.
Chase nodded slowly.
Don’t you dare, I mouthed at him.
He grinned that huge Cheshire grin back at me.
Son of a bitch.
