“Sorry,” he said.
“Yeah, sorry,” Jesse said, and gave Knox awhat do we do now?look.
He answered it with abeats meshrug.
“It’s okay,” Chloe said and sat up, letting the duvet fall away.She wore a dark sweatshirt Knox recognized as Jesse’s, and her hair was mussed, her cheeks flushed.She didn’t look like she’d been crying, but she didn’t exactly look happy, either.
Knox took a step forward, then stopped, unsure of his welcome.“Are you okay?”
She nodded.“I’m fine.Sawyer and Lou dropped me off.”
“He told us he was going to take you home,” Jesse began.
“He was going to, but I asked him to bring me here.”Unease clouded her gaze for a moment.“He had a key, and let me in.I hope that was okay.”
“It’s fine,” Knox assured her.He’d never been happier that Sawyer had an emergency key.
“We’re sorry,” Jesse blurted out, dropping down to sit on the end of the bed.“About before, at the pub.”
“Not your fault,” she said, and though her smile was shaky, it was there.“I knew Mo wouldn’t be thrilled if she found out that, well, that the three of us…”
“Still,” Jesse said when she trailed off.“We probably could’ve handled it better.”
“Me, too,” she murmured and lifted her eyes to Knox.“I’m sorry I took off like that.”
He shook his head.“It’s okay, Chloe.”
“We get it,” Jesse chimed in.“Really.”
“I appreciate that.”Her gaze flicked to Jesse, then back to Knox.“See, I’d had this kind of, epiphany I guess, and I was caught up in that, and when Mo came in and started talking about image and consequences I got so overwhelmed so fast, I just couldn’t think.”
“It’s understandable,” Jesse soothed.
“Epiphany?”Knox repeated.
“Yeah.”She swallowed, her throat bobbing.“About us.”
“The three of us?”Jesse asked.
She nodded, that uneasy look coming into her eyes again.“I was trying to figure out how to tell you when everything…”
“Went to shit?”Jesse offered.
A smile ghosted over her lips.“Yeah.”
Lowering himself to sit on the end of the bed next to Jesse, Knox kept his eyes on Chloe’s face.“What were you going to tell us, Chloe?”
She took a deep breath, her hands twisting together in her lap.“That I’m sorry.”
“For what, darling?”
“I screwed up.”Pulling her hands apart, she lifted them, then let them fall.“I ruined everything.”
Jesse’s gaze flicked to Knox, then back to Chloe.“I don’t think you ruined anything, sweetheart.”
“That’s because you don’t know that…”
“Don’t know what?”Jesse prompted.
