RILEY: If you don’t marry this man so I can screw his brothers what’s the point of our friendship?
I hear the shower turn off, and panic rises in me.
SLOANE: I have to go, he’s getting out of the shower.
RILEY: Why the hell were you not in there saving water or something?
SLOANE: He needed alone time.
RILEY: That’s a weird thing to say.
RILEY: Sloane Winters!
SLOANE: I heard some weird noises coming from the bathroom.
RILEY: What kind of noises?
SLOANE: Moans.
RILEY: You think he was jerking off in the shower?
SLOANE: That’s what guys do, don’t they?
RILEY: Yes. But usually something has turned them on enough to do that. They don’t just do it.
SLOANE: I should never have said anything.
RILEY: Oh yes you should have. He was jerking off over you.
SLOANE: No, he wasn’t.
RILEY: Yes, he was.
SLOANE: The man is hot. He wouldn’t think a girl like me is hot. I’m a disaster. He pities me.
RILEY: I’m saying this with love. Chett fucked you up. He made you think that you weren’t good enough for anyone so you wouldn’t leave his sorry ass. Babe. You are hot. Like if I swung that way, I’d be jerking off over you too.
SLOANE: Thanks…?
RILEY: I love you. You know what I mean. You’re hot. But Chett made you believe all these years that you couldn’t do any better than his sorry ass. You can do better.
SLOANE: Thanks. Guess I’m just realizing how much time I wasted with Chett.
RILEY: Chett was your lesson to make sure you never fall for that kind of bullshit ever again and to show you what a real man is like. Jax Reid is a real man.
RILEY: I’m going to do some more digging about him just in case.
SLOANE: Nothing is going to happen. I’m going to drink wine and watch Christmas movies during a blizzard.
RILEY: Have your Christmas movies not taught you anything?
SLOANE: Goodnight. I will message you in the morning.
RILEY: With news that you climbed that fireman’s hose.
SLOANE: GOODNIGHT!!!!!!
I can hear my bestie’s maniacal laughter from here. I shove my phone away and take another sip of wine. Riley is insane. Jax is not interested in me. Maybe the moans from the bathroom were from the hot water. I don’t know how long he had been standing outside in the cold. I bet it was just my overactive imagination and Riley’s texts making me think there’s something more.
