Page 27 of Achievement Unlocked

Good.

“Go,” Jeremy said. “We have the rest. We’ll meet you at the new place.”

I hated to turn my back on this, but Jeremy was right—if I didn’t walk away now, I’d cause more trouble than Easton was worth.

“Where is she?” he asked.

My fingers twitched and I almost spun back around.

“Nowhere that you can talk to her,” Jeremy said.

He had this under control, and I needed to go before I didn’t.

I used the drive to Carly’s to find my calm again. My temper wasn’t typically a problem, but between Landon and Easton, something had snapped inside.

That wasn’t fair—this wasn’t on Landon, but he was a convenient target.

By the time I reached my destination, I was centered. Megan’s smile when she saw me made things that much better. I told her, Carly, and Sonya that the others would be here shortly, and we all started carrying boxes in. A lot of it would need to go in storage for now, but Megan was cramming as much of the doll making supplies into her temporary room as she could.

The exchange with Landon wouldn’t leave my thoughts, no matter how hard I tried to push it aside. His asking me how come Megan wasn’t mine, and my dissatisfaction with my own answer. I had my reasons, but right now they didn’t feel solid.

I knew one thing, though—Megan and I were both single at the same time again, after so long. I would give her a chance to heal from what happened with Easton, but I wasn’t letting her go again; she was mine.

And until that happened, I needed to figure out why she’d pulled Landon back into the picture and how long until she’d gotten that whim out of her system. I was okay with sharing—I’d done it in other relationships—but when it came to Megan the idea had a different flavor.

Jeremy, Quentin, and Landon arrived a short while later, and we moved to emptying their trucks as well. It didn’t take nearly as long to unload as it had to load, since everything was already boxed and we had twice as many people.

“Did Nigel tell you what happened?” Jeremy asked as we were wrapping up.

Megan frowned. “Something happened?”

“Nothing happened.” I didn’t want to make a deal out of the encounter with Easton. “Nothing that anyone would be surprised about.”

I realized the other men were watching me with disbelief.

Fine. I’d get this over with. “Easton came back while we were there, and I may have threatened him—just a teensy bit—before he kicked me off his property.” There. Easy peasy, one and done.

“Youthreatenedhim? You’re such a caveman.” Carly laughed, and gave Megan a sly look. “Lucky bitch.”

Megan stuck her tongue out. “Do I want to know details?”

“Probably not,” Jeremy said.

I knew better, as much as I wanted to gloss this over. “Probably.”

“There were knives involved.” Landon spoke up.

Jeremy scowled when Megan’s eyes grew wide.

“We should wrap this up and order lunch.” That was Sonya’s way of changing the subject, most likely to keep Jeremy from sliding intoprotective big brothermode.

We finished moving things into their temporary homes and ordered a late lunch. Carly insisted there was a great curry place nearby that delivered and we all agreed that sounded good.

Her condo wasn’t made for so many people to gather in, she traveled so much that she didn’t care how much square footage she had. But the seven of us managed to find space in the living room. Mostly because Sonya, Jeremy, and Quentin were more or less in each other’s laps on the loveseat, Carly dragged the two chairs in from the kitchen, taking one for herself.

Landon tried to offer the other to Megan, and I tried to get her to take the recliner, but she insisted she was fine on the floor, leaning against my legs. I was hard pressed to complain about that.

For the most part, it was normal for us to hang as a group. Jeremy, Sonya, Megan, and I spent a lot of weekends together, when Megan hadn’t been busy with Easton. Carly was there when she was home. Quentin hadn’t been part of the group for long, he’d only been dating Sonya and Jeremy for a few months, but he fit in perfectly.

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