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When they finally let me pull back, I took a deep breath.
“I may or may not have fallen in love with her,” I whispered.“And it got complicated, so I… I just need some time, I guess.”
All eyes were on me, and after a moment, I felt uncomfortable with all the stares.
“I think I know what we need,” Harmony said, her eyes narrowing on me.
“More booze?”Erin asked.
“A night on the town!”
I couldn’t protest as I was dragged out of my seat and forced into Harmony’s room.
It seemed like a bad idea, but maybe it would be the perfect way to forget.
* * *
I was wrong.
I took a sip of my margarita as I looked at the girls, all of them mingling with their preferred partner of the night.Harmony was dancing with hers while Erin and April were sitting at a booth, drinking with two suitors on each side.
I was the only one still lingering by the bar.
The club was classier than the ones I’d been to before.Dimly lit, music not too loud, small jade-colored lamps on every table.It was also the most expensive I’d been to in a minute.
I had thought it’d be good for me to forget, but every time I looked at how happy and inebriated people were, I kept thinking of Lux’s mother.
I motioned for the bartender and paid all our tabs.
As I was signing the receipt, she looked over at my barely touched margarita.
“Can I get you something else instead?”she asked.“Hate for you to pay for something you hated.”
I gave her a smile.“It was delicious, actually.I’m just…”
“Ready to go home?”
I nodded.“Something like that.”
I handed the receipt back to her.As I turned back to let the girls know I was going to leave, a figure was there, blocking my sight.
Lux’s mother.How the fuck did she find me here?
“Let’s talk, shall we?”
She left without waiting to see if I was going to follow her.Because she knew I would.
I should text Lux and tell her, but something held me back.
Maybe I can get a confession.
I still hadn’t heard from Lux or Laura, so maybe this was my chance to get something out of her.I could guess what she wanted from me.So I’d let her think she could get it.
On one condition.
I followed her out without a look back at my roommates.
She led me out of the bar and to a small bridge just across from it that overlooked the river.It was used mostly for pedestrians with a two-way lane for cars.Not many people were crowding it, so it gave us enough privacy to talk.