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“Noble let me off early,” Reid said before he nodded at me. “What’s she doing here?”
Wyatt sat up straight. “Don’t be a dick, Reid. Roe invited her over.”
Reid rolled his eyes. “I thought we were gaming tonight.”
“We are,” Wyatt said.
“Won’t she be bored?” Reid shot back.
Wyatt sighed, sounding like he was getting annoyed. “Girls like video games, too.”
“Girls like her don’t,” Reid grumbled.
“Girls like me?” I repeated, finally butting in. Before, it hadn’t been worth my time, but he’d seemed to press the wrong button.
“Ignore him,” Wyatt insisted. “He’s a fucking idiot.”
Reid didn’t even seem to care what his supposed best friend had said about him. He just stared at me. “Have you ever played video games?”
Well, he got me there.“No.”
“That’s okay,” Wyatt said. “I’ll show you how.”
Reid’s arms unfolded and he stepped backward. “Fan-fucking-tastic,” he mumbled as he disappeared down the hall.
Chapter Ten
Roe returnedto find the three of us silently sitting in the living room. I had chosen to sit on one end of their L-shaped couch and Reid was at the other end. He had taken off his leather jacket and laid it over the back of the couch. His red shirt was pissing me off. It was too small, with the way the short sleeves hugged his tattooed biceps. I was also mad at myself for wanting to stare.
Wyatt was sitting in the recliner. He had kept Reid’s focus off me by asking him questions about work, but that didn’t stop Reid from staring my way. I’d felt his eyes when I’d moved to cross one leg over the other. The movement had caused my skirt to rise a little. Just before I’d gone to fix it, I’d glanced his way and seen he was taking in every inch of exposed skin between my thigh-high black socks and my skirt’s hem. When he’d noticed that I had caught him, I couldn’t have stopped the smug smirk that had graced my face even if I’d wanted to. Reid had turned away, looking irritated. If Wyatt had noticed that small interaction, he hadn’t said anything.
Roe stared at us, taking in the vibe of the room. “What’d I miss?”
“Not much,” Wyatt said, pulling out his phone from his pocket. “We doing pizza tonight?”
Roe came over and sat right next to me. “I figured. Reid?”
“Yeah, that’s fine,” he said as he got up and went over to a gaming console that had wireless controllers next to it. He grabbed all four and began passing them out. He held one out to me.
I looked from the controller to him. “I don’t have to play.”
“Do you not want to?” Reid asked.
“I don’t know how,” I reminded him.
“Not what I asked,” he shot back.
I took the controller from him.
“Now that’s settled, what do you want on your pizza, gorgeous?” Wyatt asked as he tapped the screen on his phone.
I shook my head. “You don’t have to get me anything.”
“You’re hungry, Lottie,” Roe said. “And before you say you’re not, remember we go to the same school.”
I sighed through my nose as I raced to think of what went on pizza. Feeling their eyes on me, the weight of them, and the pressure to come up with something quickly made my mind go blank. “I’ll take whatever.”
“What do you like?” Wyatt asked. “The place we order from has a crazy variety of toppings.”
