Page 238 of Playing Dirty
“No, leaving is insane.”
“She said Capricorns struggle with intimacy.”
Tessa looked him dead in the eye. “Well…”
Luca lost it immediately.
Even Rowan laughed hard enough she had to grab the bar.
Mason looked at all of us like he regretted ever being born.
MASON
I should’ve stayed home.
That was the only conclusion here.
Rowan was still laughing beside me and somehow that made this entire humiliation worse.
Or better.
Didn’t really know anymore.
“You’re enjoying this way too much,” I told her.
She looked up at me, still smiling. “You’re surprisingly easy to bully.”
“That’s new.”
“No,” Jace said. “You’re just letting her do it.”
Oh.
Great.
Now that sentence was in the room.
Rowan’s smile faded a little at the same time Mason looked away.
Too aware again.
Every fucking time.
Tessa immediately clocked it.
“Okay,” she announced. “You two need alcohol or therapy. Maybe both.”
“We’re fine,” Rowan and Mason said together.
Luca pointed between them. “That was disgusting.”
ROWAN
The music changed again, louder this time.
Some early-2000s song everyone apparently knew except me.
The rooftop exploded instantly.
