Page 354 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 1
"Well, what do you want?"
He laughed. "I'm not good at relationships."
I didn't say anything. His response didn't really answer my question. And usually if I stayed silent, he always confessed whathe was hiding. Before this, I didn't think we had many secrets from each other at all.
"It doesn't really matter now. She found an apartment. She's moving out at the end of the month."
"That's plenty of time to change her mind."
"I think I should have never slept with your best friend. What the hell was I thinking?"
"I think it's great. Two of my best friends getting together? What could be better than that?" Even as I said it, I knew it wasn't true. Two of my best friends getting together meant that I could possibly lose both of them. They wouldn't need me anymore.
He finished his beer and put it down on the coffee table. "Yeah, except..."
The front door opening cut him off. Melissa walked in with a huge smile on her face. But as soon as she saw me, it instantly vanished. "Hey, guys. What are you two doing?"
"Waiting for you," I said and smiled at her.
Her eyes traveled down my body. "Penny, if you needed to borrow something to wear, all my clothes are here. You know that."
"Yeah. Sorry. I didn't know when you'd be back and I didn't want to rifle through your stuff. Usually Tyler lets me borrow something comfy when we hang out anyway."
"Mhm." She set her purse down on the kitchen counter. "Of course he does. Well, don't let me bother your guys' time. I'll just get out of your way." She made her way toward the bedroom.
I stood up. "Melissa, I came over to hang out with both of you."
"That's not really what it looks like."
"I'm sorry I borrowed his clothes."Geez."It's just what I'm used to doing. I won't do it anymore if it makes you uncomfortable."
"Why would that make me uncomfortable? Borrowing someone's clothes who you slept with one time isn't weird at all. That's completely normal behavior."
"We're friends."
"I know that! I just don't want to have to come back to my apartment and see you wearing his clothes like you two just banged."
I laughed. "You're being ridiculous."
"I'm being ridiculous? Clearly there's something still going on between you two. You can't even stay out of his pants."
"We're just friends," Tyler said. "Why won't you believe me?"
"Because you're both lying. I should have never moved here." She went into the bedroom and slammed the door.
I was already losing both of them. Neither one of them wanted to talk about these things with me.
"What I was about to say before she came in was that she's super jealous of our relationship," Tyler said. "And it doesn't matter if I love her. I'm not going to choose between you two."
"I should go talk to her."
"Me talking to her sure doesn't help."
I knocked on the bedroom door and slowly opened it. Melissa was tossing some of her clothes into boxes. I closed the doorbehind me. I had a feeling I didn't want Tyler to overhear our conversation. "Can we talk?"
"About what?" She threw some more clothes into the box.
"About you and Tyler."
