Page 4 of Force Play
I smirk at him. “I’m not wrong, though.”
Knox laughs and rolls with it. “I guess I can’t really deny that.”
Cole smacks him with his hat. “Dude, shut the fuck up. I don’t want to hear what you do to my sister.”
“Is Lo excited about the wedding?” Josh asks.
“She can’t wait,” Knox smiles. “Neither can I. I can’t fucking wait to marry her.”
“Fort Knox, the romantic,” Lane teases with a playful smile.
“Fuck off, Brooks. You learned ballet for your girl. I don’t want to hear a damn thing.”
Lane throws his head back and laughs. “Are you guys still coming to dinner tomorrow?”
“Like hell we’d miss that,” I say. “We’re proud of your girl.”
He smiles brightly. “So am I. She got her GED, and she’s ready to start her life.”
None of us knows what Olive has been through besides Lane. All we know is that she was seventeen and dropped out of high school. The rest is her story to tell if she ever decides.
“Should be a fun night,” Cole says before pointing his look at me. “And Lucia will be there.”
I groan. These four are fuckingrelentless.They all know that Lucia and I don’t like each other, though they don’t know why. Lucia never wanted to admit that I caught Matt flirting with another woman, and I wasn’t going to air her dirty laundry.
Though I will say I’m glad she’s rid of the fucker now. I hate that I was right, but it’s nice to not see his face anymore.
“Of course, Lucia is going to be there,” I remark. “She’s one of Liv’s best friends. But it would besonice if one day you could all give up on whatever fantasy you have of the two of us.”
Cole laughs heartily. “It’s not a fantasy. It’s just fun to fuck with you because you’ve done that to me for the past seven years.”
I sigh and take another large gulp of my beer.
Clearly, all those times I messed with Cole have come back to bite me in the ass because there’s no end in sight for this Lucia shit.
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Lucia
Whatthefuckdidwomen do to deserve having to put up with men?
I mean, the sheer fucking audacity of them alone is enough to make you want to take up religion and join a convent.
But I’d surely burn by even setting foot in one.
I enjoy having somefun,and since I’m not into women, I’m stuck with men.
There are some decent men in the world, though.
And they’re all in relationships with my friends.
Outside of them, I don’t know if a good man exists anywhere else in New York City.
Though there can’t be many worse than my ex-boyfriend.
Wasted an entire year of my life on a finance bro who thought it would be more fun to stick his dick in his coworker than in me. And then tried to talk his way out of it after the fact as if I didn’t catch them mid-fuck.
Matt is a piece of shit, and more than anything, I wish Ari wasn’t right about him.
