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“Yeah, man, we all saw that,” Gabe teases.
There had been a sex tape of Noah and Stella that the world had watched.Ihadn’t, ‘cause Stella is like a sister to me, and I didn’t need that image in my head.
Noah flips Gabe the bird.
“Maybe ask her what she wants to do on a date?” Lev muses.
“She told me not to half-ass it,” I reply dryly. “So, I’m going in with my whole ass, okay? That means I need to come up with an unforgettable date.”
“Right!” Lev let’s out a dramatic exhale. “Whole-ass energy only.”
Noah sips his drink. “Do you even have a half-ass mode, Calder?”
“Luna would argue that I do,” I mutter.
Lev grimaces. “Please don’t make me imagine my best friend and my sister with their asses in any capacity. I’m begging you.”
We laugh, and the warmth behind it is something Imissed in New York. I have friends there, but not like this. These aremy people.
I raise my glass and tap it against theirs.
“To not fucking it up.”
“To Luna,” Noah says.
“To both of you,” Gabe adds.
Lev groans. “My best friend and my sister. It’s a living nightmare.”
I nudge him with my elbow. “Get used to it. The lady ismine.”
Lev frowns. “Who you calling lady?”
I send him a flat, unimpressed stare.
“Yeah, man, don’t let Luna hear you call her a lady, she’ll kick your ass,” Gabe warns.
“Yourwholeass,” Noah adds.
I’ll take an ass-kicking from Luna every day if it means she’ll let me be in her life.
Yeah, I’m that gone, that deep, that into her.
And…she said yes!
CHAPTER 18
Luna
The sun’s gone down, and the sky is a velvet bruise.
Savannah River glitters like spilled diamonds across dark silk.
Bar Julian is perched high above the city, where the rooftop breeze tangles your hair, if you have hair as long as Aurora’s or Stella’s. Since I don’t, I do just fine.
“I just had my hair done,” Aurora laments.
“You chose this place,” I remind her.
