Page 46 of The Love Rematch
“I may have made out with a few people.”
“You sloot!”
Emily’s cheeks flame, but she laughs. “Jealous?”
“Hell to the yes! I would’ve made out with all of them by now. Tell me everything.”
For the next hour, Emily does exactly that. It doesn’t matter that her butt starts to go numb from the hard stone counter, or that she starts to shiver from the cool tiles against her back, or that her toes ache from being propped against the towel rack. It feels so good to talk to her sister, to someone she trusts, to someone she knows loves her implicitly, nothing else matters. At least until Sam asks the one question she wasreallyhoping she’d be able to avoid.
“How’d you get the phone anyway?”
For a moment, she considers lying. Then that old adagethe cover-up is worse than the crimefilters through her head. If she lies, and Sam sees through it, things will be far, far worse, because it will seem as if she has something to hide.
Which she doesn’t.
Jake is…just Jake.
Her ex.
Nothing more, nothing less.
“It was a, um, peace offering. From Jake.”
Sam growls under her breath.
“It’s not like that.” Emily hastens to cut off her twin…then immediately regrets it.
“Not like what?” Sam asks innocently.
Emily rolls her eyes. “Not like whatever it is you’re imagining.”
“And what do you think I’m imagining?”
“Sam.”
“Em.”
“He’s not trying to win me back.”
“Of course not,” Sam answers. “He’s just seen thirty other men hit on you and make out with you, and he randomly thought,Huh, now is a really great time to suddenly start being nice to Emily again.”
“Is that so hard to believe?”
“YES!”
“We have to be around each other for the next five weeks. Is it such a bad thing to be cordial?”
“Cordial is saying hello. Cordial is opening a door. Cordial is respecting your boundaries. Sneaking a contraband phone to the lead of your television show at the risk of being fired because you suddenly realize what a huge mistake you made seven years ago and are scared shitless that the girl you dumped might actually move on with her life is NOT fucking cordial.”
“What is it then?”
“Groveling.”
Well, that settles that. Emily isdefinitelynot telling Sam about how Jake snuck into her bedroom the other night. “I really think you’re reading too much into this.”
“I really think you’re not reading into it enough. Be careful, okay? I don’t want you to get hurt again.”
“I know, but you’ve got to trust me.”
