Page 24 of Unbelievable You

The woman on the other side of Micah seemed to give up as Torrin asked Micah something.

I bet Stace was going to be thrilled. I didn’t even know why I’d done it. Setting people up was not my thing at all. Had I really set them up, though? I’d simply wanted to save Micah from being attacked by another woman who seemed to think that he was fair game.

Pushing all that aside, I started class and let go of everything else for the next hour.

The last two people in the room were Micah and Torrin, who were cleaning their mats so slowly it was mostly just a performance.

I felt like an intruder on something intimate. It was my job to do a quick clean of the room, including sweeping the floors, but I didn’t want to interrupt them.

Torrin was saying something and gesturing with his hands which made Micah tip his head back and laugh more freely than I’d ever seen him. Even if nothing else happened between them, it looked like they had the start of a new friendship.

I cleared my throat and they both spun around and stared at me.

“Sorry, I need to clean up the room,” I said, feeling like an asshole.

“Shit, what time is it?” Torrin asked, looking at his phone. “I gotta go anyway. I have a shift in an hour.” He gathered his things as Micah did the same.

I said goodnight as they continued to talk on their way out. I wish I’d taken a picture of them to send to Stace, but I hadn’t thought of it.

Micah was tall, but Torrin was taller and the two of them together was something else. Even in this gym full of guys who took their fitness seriously, these two were special. The Viking and the prince.

“Ridiculous,” I said as I swept the floor and finished up for the night.

I changed and freshened up in the locker room before saying goodnight to the people from the gym I’d come to know.

Stace was waiting outside for me, leaning against the wall as she looked at her phone.

The night was a little chilly and she wore a sweatshirt with a pair of joggers, but you could still see how cut she was.

“Your brother was in class tonight,” I said instead of a greeting.

Her face snapped up and she smiled. “Yeah, I just saw him. He was absolutely glowing and said he’d met a guy in yoga class. You have anything to do with that?”

I stepped closer to her as I shivered. My jacket wasn’t warm enough for tonight.

“Maybe. I was really just trying to save Micah. He’s too pretty for his own good.”

Stace snorted and pushed off the wall.

“That’s basically what Tor said. Well?”

I was lost. “Well what?”

“Well, are you ready to get pie? And tell me all about how it went with Micah.”

I nodded. “Yeah.”

We still took our separate cars to the diner, which was a bad idea because then I couldn’t find any parking. By the time I’d gotten a spot, I was hungry and annoyed.

Stace was waiting for me in the entryway of the diner.

“I thought you got lost,” she said. “I was just about to send you a message.”

“No, just couldn’t find any damn parking. I thought I had a spot and then someone stole it.”

Stace held the door open for me. “Cheer up. We’re about to have pie.”

“Pie can’t solve every problem, you know,” I said, still clinging to my irritation.

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