Not that I expected him to. Lawson was a private man and never shared his struggles with anyone. At least now he had Opie to get him to open up a little, but I couldn’t blame him. I wouldn’t be much different if I were in his shoes.
Hell, Pascal was my oldest friend, and I hadn’t even told him about my internal turmoil with Ozzie. I couldn’t see how anyone wouldn’t think me a complete SOB for my inappropriate behavior. Worse still was not knowing if I could stop if I confided in someone and their advice was to leave Ozzie alone.
“Gray.”
I snapped out of my thoughts. Lawson was staring at me. He couldn’t possibly know about my feelings for Ozzie, but still, his scrutiny unsettled me a bit. “You were saying something?”
“You look awfully distracted. Want to talk about something?”
My tongue dried up in my mouth. I shook my head. “Nah. I’m good.”
Far from it, but he didn’t need to know that.
15
OZZIE
“So you kissed Gray.”
My chest tightened as the bottom of the sofa seemed to open from beneath me, leaving me to freefall into a sea of panic. Was my conscience playing tricks on me?
“Excuse me?”
“You kissed Gray,” Opie said with confidence, grinning at me like we were sharing our dirtiest little secrets. “How was it? Gray always struck me as a good kisser.”
I frowned. “You think about Gray?”
“Sure. Lawson and I think about Gray all the time while we’re doing the nasty. It gets us off.”
My mouth fell open, and I squirmed. Maybe we wouldn’t become the friends I thought we would. I would never forget those words for as long as I lived.
Opie’s laughter rang out, and tears streaked down his face.
“I don’t see what’s so funny.”
“Your face.” He used his shirt to wipe his leaky eyes. “You totally kissed Gray. I can tell from the way you wanted to shove me off the sofa just now.”
“That’s not…true.”
Oh hell, what was the sense of hiding it? My expression probably gave our secret away already.
“I’m kidding about us thinking about Gray.” Opie grabbed my hand and squeezed it. “But it saved us the whole act of you pretending you didn’t kiss Gray and me having to pull the truth out of you. Plus, you’re not wearing your engagement ring.”
“But how did you know?”
“The way I heard it, Jessamine saw you two kissing.”
I groaned and covered my face with my hands. “I thought Gray sorted that out.”
“Wait a minute. What’s there to sort out? Didn’t he kiss you?”
“Yeah, but it was just an act.” At least I could be truthful about that kiss. “The kiss wasn’t a real one.”
Opie’s face fell. “Well, that’s a bummer.”
Wait… what?
“It’s been a while since we’ve had something juicy happen in this town, and by juicy, I mean a sex scandal.”
