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“A person that needs to talk with August,” Addison said softly, and I sighed, knowing they were right.

So I sank back into my chair as we turned to water and changed the subject.

Because I wasn’t going to get any answers today, not without talking to the man in question.

Only I was truly afraid of the answers.

If he even deigned to give me one.

Chapter Thirteen

August

As I sat down on the weight bench, weight in hand, I stared at my brothers.

We had all come over to Luca’s house to work out, but then we had gotten distracted by a golden retriever who Luca was taking care of for the evening, and the fact that the golden retriever didn’t quite like Luca’s cat. But now the two were becoming fast friends, and we were late on our workouts. Their wives and children were over at Paisley’s house for a girls’ evening, so we guys were just hanging out, while Greer was over with her husbands.

It was nice, having this time together, even though I was still a little confused as to what the hell I was supposed to be doing with my life.

I hadn’t planned on this. I hadn’t planned on any of this. But now I needed to figure out what I was going to do with Paisley.

“You have your thinking face on, and it honestly looks a little painful.”

I flipped Heath off. “Fuck you.”

“No, thanks. Seriously though, that thinking face looks like it hurts.”

“I have the same damn face as you. I don’t know why you think you’re funny.”

“Because I’m freaking hilarious.”

Luca just shook his head at us.

“So, why the thinking face? Hard chemistry problem? Like what happens to oxygen once it leaves hydrogen peroxide?” Luca asked, and I snorted.

“I can tell you the answer if you want.”

“I want to know,” Heath asked, and Luca snorted.

“You should know the answer. I know the answer.”

“Because you are the wunderkind who is a veterinarian and should know the answer.” I winked at him, then glared over at Heath. “Hydrogen peroxide is just H2O2. It literally has this little oxygen-oxygen single bond and then once it hits light, it decomposes and you have water and O2. Get it? H2O and O2?”

“Really? That’s it.”

“Yes. Basic chemistry can be fun.”

“I’m literally yawning deep inside. I cannot believe you just said that.”

“I’m just saying, it’s why they come in the little dark bottles.”

“You’re ridiculous. And now that we’ve had our chemistry lesson for the day, please, enlighten me on why you had that annoying face on.”

“Again, it’s your face,” I growled. I did another rep and sighed. “I slept with Paisley.”

“We know that. We heard that,” Luca said with an obvious shudder.

“No. We slept together again.” I paused as they both stared at me wide-eyed. “In her office. On her desk. We might have broken a lamp. I’m not sure. But yeah, we had sex. Twice. In her office. And I don’t think there’s enough Clorox to take away everything.”

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