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“Dude.” Ezra nudged me. “You want coffee? Juice?”

I blinked up at the server and apologized. “Orange juice please.”

“I’ll get your drinks brought over right away. Feel free to help yourself at the buffet counter.”

“Thank you,” Poppy answered for us, and everyone wasted no time heading to the buffet.

But I stayed behind, still watching Sofia. Her strained smile and sad eyes. She’d had the perfect opportunity to tell me the truth and she’d chosen not to.

Because she doesn’t trust you anymore.

As if she felt me, Sofia looked up, finding me across the room.

She might not have trusted me anymore, but I didn’t miss the slight hitch to her breath, the flare of emotion in her eyes. I affected her. I’d felt it lying in bed with her in my arms, and I felt it now.

But Sofia was right. Shit was complicated.

Maybe too complicated.

But I wanted her.

I wanted Sofia Bennet—I wanted to see where this thing between us might go.

She had to want it too though.

CHAPTERSEVEN

Sofia

“How are you feeling?”Poppy whispered as we sat in the back of Ashleigh’s car.

Thankfully, Mom and Dad had ridden up to Pittsburgh with her mom, so I didn’t have to survive four hours of my parents lecturing me about my antics last night.

They’d known; of course they had.

One look at me at breakfast and they’d recognized I was hungover. But rather than chew me out at breakfast, they would no doubt wait until we got home.

“I’m fine,” I said, sipping on my bottled water, trying to abate the nausea rolling through me.

“So last night…” She went on.

“What about it?”

“You stayed in Cole’s room.”

I groaned. “If you’re trying to make a point, Pops, make it.”

“Jeez, you’re happy this morning.”

“Sorry, I feel like ass.”

“And who’s fault is that?” She gave me a pointed look. “I’ve never seen you that—”

“Can we not do this? I need to sleep.” Closing my eyes, I pressed my head against the glass, trying to block out the motion of the car.

“So you’re saying, you shared a room with Cole and nothing happened?”

“I can hear you both, you know?” Ashleigh chuckled. “The car isn’t that big.”

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