I look at Eli.
Then Noah.
Both are fighting laughter.
“Okay, guys.”
I pat their knees.
“You gotta move.”
Noah sighs dramatically.
“Already?”
“Yeah.”
I look at Kane.
“Make room for my man over here.”
Chaos.
Absolute chaos.
Jalen gets to his feet.
“HER MAN.”
“After one date?”
“Kane Haverhill got locked down at a bookstore.”
“Somebody check on Krista.”
Kane’s grin is so smug now I want to take it back.
I point at all of them.
“Calm yourselves.”
“You said my man,” Eli says.
“It was contextual.”
“Sounded definitive.”
“Fine.”
I scoot sideways as Noah and Eli finally move.
Kane sits beside me.
Immediately.
His thigh presses against mine.
His arm goes along the back of the couch.