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“—he's in love with you,” she finishes, quieter this time.

I open my mouth to argue, but there’s a clatter in the doorway.

Logan stands there, holding a half-empty glass of orange juice and looking way too pleased with himself.

“Sorry,” he says, very much not sorry. “Just came in to rinse this. And accidentally overheardeverything.”

“Oh my god.”

Charlie waves a hand dismissively. “Don’t worry. He already knows.”

My head whips toward her. “What?”

She just shrugs. “Jake told him.”

“Jake?!”

“I told Jake,” she says innocently. “And Jake told everyone else because Jake has the discretion of a drunk parrot.”

“I’m sorry—what do you meaneveryone else?”

At that moment, Eli walks in. “Hey, we still doing coffee—” He sees my face and pauses. “Oh. You told her.”

“Told mewhat?” I demand.

“That everyone knows,” Logan says, clearly delighted. “That you and Chase have been doing the worst-kept-secret in history.”

“I—what—how-how long have you known?”

Eli shrugs. “Since your first date night when you kissed Chase publicly, and his moan was posted across the nation.”

Logan snorts. “Or when we caught him on DoorDash in the locker room ordering your coffee delivery.”

“Or theinsaneamount of carnations,” Charlie adds.

“I hate all of you,” I mutter, slapping a wet fork onto the drying rack.

Logan raises his glass in salute. “Congrats, by the way. We love a fake-dating-to-actually-dating arc. Very ‘Hallmark if Hallmark had orgasms.’”

Charlie cackles.

And even though my face is fully on fire, I feel a weird kind of weight lift. There’s no scandal, no awkwardness. Just this dumb, chaotic, aggressively loving group of people I get to call mine.

“You’re not gonna tell Pulse or Storm, right?”

Eli waves a hand. “Hell no. Let them keep thinking it’s fake. It’s kinda fun.”

Charlie nudges me again. “Besides, now we can all enjoy watching you twopretendto fake date while being legitimately real.”

“I’m still gonna murder your fiancé.”

“Can you do it after three a.m.? He’s on night feeds tonight.”

Chapter thirty-three

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Chase

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