Page 54 of Inked Obsession

Lee studied my face. “Seriously. I don’t know why I didn’t see it before, though. The way you two are with each other.”

“What way?” I asked, confused.

“You guys are always grumbling and kind to one another.”

“That doesn’t make any sense,” I told Lee.

Lee grinned. “Yes, it does. You guys are friendly, but hate asking for or needing help. Still, you’re always first in line to help each other. You guys did a good job of only dancing with each other once. Never too much. It was as if you subconsciously knew that it was wrong to want to dance with each other more than once like you’re in a Regency ballroom or somewhere.”

“I’m pretty sure that it’s two dances that makes it wrong. Though, of course, if you go past one dance and somebody looks at you and wants to dance with you for that second one, you could be a little wanton,” Archer said.

I growled. “I swear to God, if you bring up Regency romances one more time…”

“It was a popular show, too,” Archer complained. “You can’t blame me. You enjoyed it.”

“Anyway…” Benjamin broke in, and I laughed.

“I don’t know where we were,” I said.

“We were at the part where you were telling me exactly what you and Eliza were doing.”

“I’m not going into details.” I sighed. “And I don’t know what’s going to happen now. Eliza is trying to figure it out. She has her own life with a lot of shit going on. Apparently, I have even more going on. I have no idea what I’m doing. This will probably all explode, but I can’t help it. I really like her. I wasn’t expecting it. She’s always just been there, but now, she’s really there. I don’t want it to stop. I probably should, but I don’t want to.”

“On top of that, you need to tell Brenna,” Lee said quickly.

“Unless the girls tell her first.”

“Fuck,” Benjamin said softly.

“Brenna told me that she needed space,” I whispered.

My twin sighed. “Then you should give it to her.”

“I need to tell her.”

“Pull out your phone and do it now,” Archer said.

I rolled my eyes. “Oh, yes, I should do this over the phone or by text.”

Lee shrugged. “Well, you either need to do it that way or wait until the girls tell her.”

“Brenna needs to know.” Benjamin met my gaze. “If you’re going to tell the whole world, Brenna needs to know before the rest of them.”

I looked at all of them as they stared down at the phone in front of me. “You really going to make me do this in front of you?” I asked.

“Yes. We are,” Lee said, crossing his arms over his chest.

“I’ll be needing more tequila for this,” Benjamin growled and reached for the bottle.

“It seems I’ll be driving tonight,” Archer said as he switched to water.

I pulled up my phone and went into the bedroom, slamming and locking the door behind me so nobody could follow.

Brenna picked up on the first ring, and I knew I was an idiot for letting all of this play out this way. “I’m working, Beckett. Is everything okay?”

“Fuck. I’m sorry. I just…I’m sorry for a lot of things.”

“I know. I swear my mood isn’t all about you. I’m just in a funk. You were almost killed, Beckett. And I love you. I don’t like that you were almost killed.”

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