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“Nothing. It’s just weird. And why do you care who he fucks?”

Fighting the rush of heat in my cheeks, I mutter, “It’s my sister.”

“Wait, you didn’t catch feelings, did you?”

“What? No, of course not,” I say but he cocks his head to the side, and I squirm.

“You did. Fuck, Minnie this was a job and he’s a dick anyway,” he says sourly.

“Clearly,” I say. “Why is it weird?”

Shrugging, he grabs a cup of coffee sitting beside him and takes a slurp before saying, “I don't know. You’re a chick, he usually doesn’t invest time in shit like that.”

“Huh? Besides, he thinks I’m the one that set him up.”

“Aren’t you?”

“Sort of,” I say, uninterested in explaining the particulars. “The point is, he’s pissed. And apparently, I’m pathetic enough that the only way to make me pay is to mess with Lorri.”

“Well, that makes more sense,” he mutters.

“Really?” I huff, glaring at him.

“What? Dudes don’t fuck other chicks to get back at chicks. We don’t care unless we do, and he’s never cared before.”

“I’m not sure that even made sense,” I sigh. “So, if I’m getting this right, because he fucked me and forgot me, he wouldn’t be sleeping with Lorri for revenge because that implies, he has feelings?”

“Yep.”

“But the only reason he approached me at all was because he wanted to get back at you?” I point out, supremely confused by the circuitous conversation.

“That’s different.”

“How?”

With a sigh, he scrubs his face and says gruffly, “A long time ago, we were friends. I messed with his sister, and it didn’t end well. Now he thinks if he fucks all my side pieces it pisses me off.”

“Nice,” I mutter. This isn’t exactly a surprise but hearing him say it makes me wonder about their relationship.

“Yes, believe me, I regret it now. But I was younger and stupid.”

“So, he steals away your girls because you...what? Slept with his sister and walked? That’s a little extreme.”

“Yeah, well,” he says warily, grunting when I raise an expectant brow. “She ran away.”

“Away? Where?”

“Don’t know,” he says with a shrug.

“Oh,” I say softly, a pulse of sympathy blooming in my chest for the girl. She must have been really hurt to do something like that. Over a guy no less.

The story, though, points out Cooper’s hypocritical actions because he’s now using my sister and frankly, he used me under the guise of my relationship with Beast. He’s no saint himself.

What a cluster.

“Well, if he’s being honest, he’s with my sister so maybe you’ll get a reprieve?”

“Look, the best revenge is to ignore his dick move. If you don’t care, he’ll lose interest.”

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