Head swimming, throat burning, Chloe tried a beseeching look.“But I’m so horny.”
“Then try some dick,” Gwen suggested.
“Did someone say dick?”Bailey called out over the slam of the front door, then walked in to toss her coat over Gwen’s.“What’s up, friends?”
“Bad choices,” Gwen said and passed Bailey her shot.“Here.Chloe’s cut off.”
“Already had her two, huh?”Bailey tossed back the shot like it was water.“What happened?”
Head spinning, Chloe shoved past Bailey to sprawl on the couch.“Toolbelt.Suit.”
Bailey looked at Gwen.“Is that code?”
“She went next door to help me pick a cabinet color, and Jesse and Knox were there.”
“Oh.She’s horny.”
“Yep.”
“Ofcourse, I’m horny,” Chloe said, annoyed that they were talking over her.And between the vodka and the fact that she hadn’t eaten since breakfast, a little lightheaded.“And I was such adork.”
“I’m sure you weren’t,” Bailey soothed.
“No, she was,” Gwen said.“Knox said it was nice to see her, and she said ‘samesies’.”
Bailey’s expression twisted into a mix of horror and sympathy.
“But if it makes you feel any better,” Gwen went on, “they didn’t seem to notice.”
“How could they not notice?”Bailey wondered.
“I don’t know.They seemed distracted.It was weird.”Gwen opened the refrigerator to poke inside.“Do you have anything to eat?I’m starving.”
Chloe was frowning.“Huh?”
Gwen shut the fridge.“Food.”
“Oh.I’m either going to make scrambled eggs or order Chinese.”
“I could go for Chinese,” Bailey decided and pulled out her phone.“Gwen?”
Gwen nudged Chloe’s feet aside to sit on the couch.“Pot stickers and pork fried rice, please.”
“You know, that whole thing at the diner was weird, too,” Chloe said.
“What whole thing at the diner?”Bailey asked absently, looking at her phone.
“When I was there with Sawyer and Jesse and Knox showed up,” Chloe said.“Wasn’t it?”
Bailey looked up.“How would I know?I wasn’t there.”
“Oh, right.But it was,” Chloe insisted, thinking back.“There was, I don’t know, subtext.And they were so mad.”
“At you?”
Chloe looked at Gwen.“No, at Sawyer.”
“Why would they be mad at Sawyer?”
