“I don’t think they hate you that much,” I argued as I adjusted my clothes. “Besides, everyone likes a party. Free food and alcohol is a big draw.”
“You don’t understand,” he yelled. “You weren’t there.”
“This is why you need to embrace positive thinking. They already RSVP’d yes to the party,” I told him brightly. “You’re welcome!”
“What?” He sat down heavily on the couch.
“Well four of the five. I talked to their assistants. You’re on the calendar for this weekend.”
“Aaron?” he whispered.
“He’s the holdout, but I told his assistant that if she could convince him to go, I would totally take her out for drinks.”
“This is not a good idea,” he warned me.
“Positivity is a choice.”
Grayson closed his eyes.
I slid off the desk and went over to him.
“This is going to be good for you, Grayson. This is about growth and healing. Also I have some rose quartz crystals in my Amazon shopping cart just to make sure the energy in the room stays balanced.”
Grayson looked mildly nauseous.
“You don’t have to do a thing except show up,” I assured him. “You’ll thank me later.”
And sure, a good deed really was supposed to be about the person you were helping, but the selfish part of me that I hadn’t of yet successfully squashed thought that, if this party was asmashing success, Grayson would see that I wasn’t just the girl for him but his soulmate. He’d ask me to be his girlfriend, and we’d be on our way to a happily ever after.
52
GRAYSON
“Concert this Saturday?” Marius popped his head into my office.
I set down my pen.
“Can’t. I’m having a small party.”
“Damn, and I didn’t get an invite,” he joked.
Maybe it was my projection, but did Marius seem a little … taken aback?
“It’s for my brothers,” I admitted.
“Your—”
Marius sat down across from my desk.
“You’re seeing your brothers tomorrow night? All of them?”
I nodded. “Aaron hasn’t confirmed, and he may just end up nixing the whole thing. He could tell the rest of them not to come.”
“How? Why?”
“Lexi.”
“She really is the girl for you,” Marius marveled.
