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"Couch. Reverse Cowgirl."
"FUCK YOU! I saiddon'ttell me anymore, you ass-clown!"
"If I have to know that, so do you."
"Those are my fuckin'parents, Jax. Jesus." This was feeling like déjà vu.
"They're my aunt and uncle! You gotta admit, though—it's inspiring. I want that for myself, someday. A relationship where we're still fucking like porn stars after twenty-some years, you know?"
"Yes, yes, yes, I agree, me too, but we can not talk about my parents and their sex life anymore, please? I swear I'll name my firstborn after you if we can change the fucking subject."
We bantered all the way back across the Passage to shore, but my mind was only partly on the conversation.
The rest of me was back in LA, wondering what Lindsey was doing, how she was feeling…
And more than anything, whether or not Jax was right that me professing my love was a shit move.
As Mom used to say to us kids all the time when we were arguing and started saying mean shit:
Just because something is true doesn't mean you have to say it; sometimes the kindest thing you can say is nothing at all.
CHAPTER 7
Lindsey
BAMBAMBAM. "Lindsey Noreen Snelling! Open this fucking door right this goddamned second!"
Oh dear. Rune was using the full name—she knew how I felt about my middle name: hate, hate, hate,LOATHE ENTIRELY.
"No!" I shouted. "I'm not home."
"Do I have to have Duncan kick the door down?"
"Hey, now, don't bring me into this," I heard Duncan say. "I'm just here for moral support."
“You just can't kick down a door, can you?"
"No," he muttered. "It's harder than it looks."
"Which means you've tried?"
"Long story. Short version is Dane locked me out of my room when I popped out to pee while doing a loot run in Diablo Four."
"So you tried to kick your door down?"
"I was fourteen and didn't pause it, just kept a passive effect spell going that killed all the minor minions."
"Dunc, baby—"
“You don't care about Diablo, I know."
"CAN YOU TWO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION ELSEWHERE?" I shouted. "I'm not home."
BAM!My door rattled with a shuddering impact.
"RUNE RIGBY BADD! Stop kicking my door!"
"I'm not—"BAM! "Kicking it."BAM! "I'm—"BAM! "Shoulder charging it."BAM! "Ow."
