Page 81 of The Star

When I walk out, Levi and Logan are laughing together and it makes my blood boil. He finds my gaze and takes a step back, lifting his hands. “Deep breaths.”

“Let’s just go,” I growl, going for the door.

Hayden and Levi snicker behind me, and all three of them follow me out of the room.

“Logan, I didn’t know you were a screamer,” Levi comments as we’re waiting for the elevator. I shoot him daggers, assuming Logan will be embarrassed.

“There’s a lot you don’t know about me, Levi,” she retorts, keeping her gaze on whatever she’s doing on her phone.

“You didn’t scream with me.” Levi faux pouts when she looks at him and laughs.

Before I can smack him in the head, Logan answers him. “Carson’s dick is bigger.”

I bark out a laugh, and Hayden chuckles too. Levi’s face falls, and Logan just grins at me like she’s impressed with herself. The elevator doors open, we all step on, and when Logan threads her fingers through mine, I can’t help but smile.

“Maybe I could get a redo,” Levi grumbles.

I squeeze Logan’s hand. “Not a chance.”

Hayden sighs. “God, is this going to be some lame-as-shit love triangle now?”

Logan laughs, and Levi speaks up. “Nah, I’ve moved on.”

“In the last two seconds?” Hayden questions.

Levi points a hand at me and Logan. “Look how damn cute they are, dude!”

Hayden groans. “God, you two are going to be that boring couple now, though, right?”

Logan clicks her tongue. “One, there’s nothing boring about me. I am a blast. Two, Carson has a girlfriend already. Three, mind your fucking business, Hayden.”

I laugh, but Hayden keeps going. “That reminds me, what are we going to do about Cassidy? That bitch needs to get what’s coming to her. Do we have a plan?”

He looks at each of us, and when his gaze finds mine, I shake my head.

The elevator doors open, and I don’t miss the way Hayden’s mouth turns up in a sinister smile as he walks through the doors. I know him well enough to know he’s concocting something fucked up.

He gives the hotel valet his ticket, and once the driver has pulled his Mercedes G-Class up to the curb, the bellboy starts loading our bags into the back. We all slip in, Levi in the front, with me and Logan in the backseat. Hayden slides the guy some cash, then gets into the driver’s seat.

“What happened to the Maserati?” Logan asks as Hayden is pulling out onto the road.

“We had a lot of bags, figured I would bring the G,” he answers, focusing on the road.

“You have a Maseratianda G-Wagon?!” Logan questions, making me and my best friends laugh.

Hayden looks at her in his rear-view mirror. “And about ten other cars that just sit at my house.”

“Fucking Luxington,” she huffs under her breath.

Levi hooks up his phone, putting on some music, and we all enjoy the ride wordlessly. It’s about twenty minutes across town to my house, and when we’re pulling through the gates of my neighborhood, Levi turns the volume down and twists in his seat to look at me.

“We still having a party tonight?”

“Ehhh…” I hesitate, and Levi frowns at me. “I don’t know.”

“We’re having a party?” Logan asks, grinning.

I look at her. “We were going to, since the parentals are in Hawaii, but we could just chill… Spend time together?”

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