“If being with her means sharing her, I’ll do it,” I told them. “Because I love her too. I love Renee and don’t want to let her go.”
“Then it’s settled.” Matt sat back on the couch, nodding his head. “That’s what we’ll do.”
“Hold up,” Aaron quips. “Has anyone asked Renee what she thinks about all this? She could turn us down flat, and we’d all lose her.”
“We have to talk to her then.” I reached for the cell phone in my pocket and brought up Renee’s text thread. “This has to be face-to-face. Should we go over there?”
“Yeah,” Matt said. “See if she’s home. I need to get changed.”
Chapter 38
Renee
“The boys are on theirway over.” I looked away from my phone and up at Jami, who had her lips around the edge of the wine glass, about to take a drink. She lowered the glass without drinking and frowned.
“All of them?”
“Apparently.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know. Jake just said they need to talk to me.”
“Hmmm.” Jami raises the glass again and takes a sip, pondering this. “That doesn’t sound good.”
“You’re telling me.” I reach for the bottle of wine to refill my glass, then take a healthy drink. The booze stings my throat, but I ignore it and take another sip until I can’t taste it anymore.
“What do you think they’re going to say?”
“After today with Matt? Nothing good, I suppose. He probably stabbed me in the back again, and now maybe they’re all done with me. I burned my bridges, and they’re going to say goodbye.”
“It seemed like they forgave you the first time this happened,” Jami reminds me. “I don’t think they’re capable of cutting you off, Ren. Not anymore.”
“What if they do?”
The doorbell rings. Jami and I look over, then she glances back at me and scoops up her wine glass to take it upstairs.
