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“Sounds amazing,” Jenna muttered.
Again, Faith snorted. “You two just happened to marry the exceptions to the rule. Ethan and Ryder might be alpha, but they aren’t arrogant.”
Now Sophia and Phoebe snorted in unison.
“We never said they weren’t arrogant,” Phoebe shook her head.
“That’s for sure,” Sophia agreed. “You just need to recognize which battles are worth pursuing and which ones weren’t worth the fight. It isn’t healthy to constantly challenge them. And once you stop, they stop.”
“Yes,” Phoebe nodded. “And when that happens, it’s pretty amazing.”
“I wouldn’t know,” Faith scoffed.
Jenna sighed. “Me, either.”
All eyes turned to Elle. She lifted a brow. “What?”
“How do you handle my brother?” Jenna asked.
“Yeah, Jeremy definitely qualifies as alpha and arrogant, yet you two seem to have a good relationship.” Faith stared expectantly at her.
Relationship?
She frowned. “We don’t have a relationship. It’s more of a mutual understanding.”
They had no claims on one another.
“So, you’d be okay if he left to be with a stacked brunette tonight?” Faith asked.
Elle’s heart lurched. “What do you mean?”
Did he have another a woman on call besides her?
“I mean, are you okay with sharing him?”
Shoot. Maybe he did.
She blinked, having never thought about it. “No…yeah…I don’t know.”
But Elle did know. The thought of him getting naked with another woman and doing and saying all the amazing things he did and said to her, sent a sharp, stabbing pain through her chest.
“He doesn’t have another woman, Elle,” Jenna said. “So get that out of your head.”
As the pain lessened, she inhaled a clear, deep breath.
“By the way you turned pale and seemed to have a tough time breathing, I’d say you definitely aren’t okay with sharing my brother.”
But that wasn’t a good thing.
She frowned. “It doesn’t really matter though, since we both agreed we didn’t want a relationship.”
All her friends smiled.
Except for Phoebe. She chuckled. “Doesn’t work that way. Trust me, I know.”
“The both of you may not have wanted one,” Sophia said, tilting her head, “but you two are definitely in one.”
A relationship?
