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Briana barked out a laugh, and I leaned into her and snickered. I was having so much fun.
Briana smiled up at me, still giggling. “Jacob, can you get my purse? I think I left it in the taxidermy room.”
She was giving me my out to go take a break.
I got up. “Sure.”
I made eye contact with her before I left. She was going to follow me. I could tell. I couldn’t wait to be alone with her. That was the reward. Not slipping out of the party or sitting on the stairs with the dog. It was getting her to myself.
I slipped into the taxidermy room and waited five minutes, and when the door creaked open, I turned and smiled. But it wasn’t Briana.
It was Amy.
Chapter 24
Jacob
Amy shut the door behind her. “Do you have a second?” she asked.
I blinked at her. “Is everything okay?”
“I just need to talk to you.”
I eyed her. “All right…”
I couldn’t imagine what she wanted to talk about. We’d barely spoken since we broke up.
She paused for a moment. “What are you doing, Jacob?”
“What? What do you mean?”
“‘I’d love you even if you didn’t have a face’? Using the word motherfucker? Moving in together?” She shook her head. “What is this?”
I felt my heart rate pick up. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“I’m concerned about you,” she said. “You’re vulnerable right now. You just went through a difficult breakup and you meet this woman and she’s moving in? Already?”
I crossed my arms. “You’re marrying Jeremiah already.”
She crossed her arms too. “I’ve known Jeremiah two years longer than I’ve known you and we work together every day—”
“Briana and I also work together.”
“And in less than six months she’s living with you?”
I shook my head at her. “Why do you care?”
“What if she has an ulterior motive.”
“Like what?” I scoffed.
“Like getting you to donate a kidney to her brother?”
The words hit me like a smack.
“Did you start dating before or after she knew what you were doing?” she asked.
I went quiet. And my silence confirmed her accusation.
