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CHAPTER21

LOGAN

My phone buzzed over and over again until I was forced to turn away from Sloane’s warm, sleeping body to see what was happening.

I scrolled through the texts, noting that, although it was chaos…it was in fact, not an emergency.

Camden: Wake up, Rookalicious.

Ari: No. Absolutely not.

Camden: Not a winner?

Ari: I shouldn’t be the only one saying this. Why aren’t more people speaking up?

Walker: I bet Geraldine calls him that.

I grimaced at that thought.

Camden: That’s actually why I’m texting.

Lincoln: Because Geraldine calls him that? I could have lived without that knowledge.

I nodded my head, because I agreed with that statement.

Camden: Geraldine has requested our presence tonight for dinner after practice. She claims it will be good luck because “we’ve been sucking something awful.”

Ari: She specifically mentioned me, right?

Camden: …

Ari: Get it together, Hero. That’s not the proper usage of that right now.

Ari: And why was Logan the first person you thought of in this scenario? How does that make any sense?

Camden: …

Lincoln: I actually thought that was the perfect usage.

Ari: Betrayal. The cold slice of betrayal. That’s what I’m feeling right now, Golden Boy.

Walker: As head of the Circle, it does seem like Linc can confirm the rules.

Ari: Listen, simp. I don’t think that we ever said that Lincoln Daniels was the head of the Circle. If it even exists, might I add.

Camden: See, I don’t think the leader of the Circle would pretend like it didn’t exist.

Ari Lancaster removed Camden James from the chat.

I was struggling not to laugh and wake up Sloane.

Lincoln Daniels added Camden James to the chat.

Ari: Apparently you chose violence this morning, Golden Boy.

Ari: I don’t like how this is going, gentlemen. Maybe I’m the leader of the Circle, and you’ve just gotten yourselves kicked out. Or maybe I’ll go and start a group called the Trust Tree or the Cone of Silence. Maybe the Mutual Mischief Club!

Lincoln: All of those are unequivocally terrible, Lancaster.