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“Dinner will be ready soon. I’m sure it’s food you’re lacking.” She looked at my body and puckered her lips. “Maybe your father is right, sweetie. You’re losing weight again.”

Again.

That wasn’t true at all.

“Have you seen my tits and ass?” I asked bluntly, raising a brow at her.

She stopped moving and frowned. “Yes, and they’re beautiful. But your waist and stomach…you look malnourished.”

“I do not,” I muttered. I simply didn’t have the type of body to gain weight easily.

But it wasn’t like I was trying to anyway.

I loved my body, and I knew the effect it had on men and women.

To avoid another one of her comments, I turned to walk back into my room to get my phone and then head downstairs to see Dad sitting on the couch and talking to someone on the phone.

“That doesn’t matter. If he really wants to turn his life around, he’ll accept my offer.”

I listened in as I sat down on the couch next to him, and he gave me a quick nod to acknowledge me.

“I’m not offering again. He can agree, or keep on ruining his life. And that’s final.”

I puckered my lips as I kept listening while looking at my phone and going through Kennedy’s messages she wrote throughout the day.

As focused as I was, I totally forgot to check my phone after asking her if she wanted to come by tonight.

Surprisingly, she had texted meyesfive times, hoping for me to respond.

I quickly typed a reply, telling her she could come over later tonight after I had dinner.

A sleepover was just what I needed.

A good movie, snacks, and maybe a few nudes from my men.

Now that I let Garett see me last night instead of this evening, I had time to spend with my best friend.

“All right. Let me know what he says. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

He hung up and looked at me as I moved my gaze up to his, and with a smile, I said, “Kennedy is coming over later. We’re having a sleepover.”

He nodded. “Done studying?”

“Yes.”

“Good,” he said, standing up and placing his phone onto the coffee table. “Riggs will come over for dinner tomorrow night. We have a few things to talk about.”

That made me sit up straight.

“Oh, that’s great. You must’ve missed him the past year, huh?”

“Yeah. He’s been the only one I could talk to about anything other than business. Great guy. I’m glad he’s back,” he told me.

If he only knew what his best friend did to me last night…

“I’m excited to see him again.”

More excited than I’ve been in a long time.

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