“He was. But he disappeared. I’m assuming he went to meet Kenzie.”
Luke smirked. “He’s so gone for that girl, it’s disgusting.”
“I—” Jack cut himself off. “Yeah.”
In truth, Jack thought it was sweet. He had once been that sprung over a girl—still was most days—and it made him happy to see his teammate happy.
Secretly, Jack could admit he was also a little jealous. Every time he looked at Kenzie and Aiden, he saw what he’d had once. And no matter how brief that time had been, he’d spent the last three and a half years searching for that same magic.
Luke’s attention was dragged away by one of the freshmen wanting to talk shop, and Jack’s phone buzzed in his pocket, so he stepped into the quiet hall off the patio to answer.
“Hey, sweets,” he said to Sofia in greeting.
“Hey you!” she hollered in his ear.
“Where are you?” he asked. “I thought you were coming by Munn with Kenzie?”
“Something came up!”
Surelysomethingwas an “issue” with one of her sorority sisters, but he wasn’t about to say that. They’d been here before in the few months they’d been…doing whatever it was they were doing, and he wasn’t in the mood for a fight.
“Will I see you tonight?”
“Possibly! Depends on how this goes, and how we’re feeling after the game. We might go to the bar with the Theta boys.”
Jack bit back a groan. Theta Chi, or The Lodge, was the bane of his existence.
Scratch that. It wasn’t the entire fraternity, only a brother in particular—Silas Jeffers.
Jack and Sofia hadn’t been together long, but Jack could admit he really liked her. Unfortunately, so did Silas. And thanks to the proximity with which her sorority and his fraternity operated, they spent a lot of time together—away from Jack’s watchful gaze.
Jack wasn’t a jealous guy, but he also wasn’t a fan of Silas’s attempts to insert himself into Sofia’s life and shove Jack out of it.
Sofia always claimed that Silas had a girlfriend, and it wasn’t like that between them, but Jack had never seen this mysterious girlfriend, nor did Silas act like he was in a relationship.
He didn’t know where his own relationship with Sofia was headed, but he at least wanted the chance to find out.
“Well,” Jack said finally, “you let me know when you figure it out.”
“Are you mad?” she asked. “You’re mad. I can tell.”
“I’m not mad,” he said automatically, and truthfully, he wasn’t. He was more…annoyed. “I just haven’t seen you in a few days.”
“But we’re going to the cider mill tomorrow.”
“With your sorority sisters and their dates,” he reminded her. “What if I wanted some alone time?”
“Alone time, huh?” Sofia asked, and the background noise on her end cut off abruptly, as though she’d stepped behind a door. “What exactly would this alone time entail?”
“Me and you,” he said slowly, the corners of his lips tipping up. “My bed—”
“I like where this is going.”
“—a big bowl of popcorn, the latest season ofThe Bachelor…”
Sofia faked a moan, and Jack laughed. “I love it when you talk dirty to me,” she said.
“Soon?” he asked.
