Page 73 of A Little Bit Reckless

Bru:I left when things… got intense.

Me:Are you angry?

Me:At me?

Bru:I think you know the answer to that.

Bru:I already knew how you felt about her. I was just waiting for you to admit it to yourself, which you did. I’m glad. Like I said, I feel the same way.

Bru:So my question now is what happens next?

Me:I don’t know, but I’m not lying to Thatcher about all this.

Bru:I agree you shouldn’t, but maybe you should figure out what all this is with her first.

Bru:Maybe we both should.

CHAPTER

TWENTY-SEVEN

Bow

I got a text from Wells that said he wanted to talk.

I didn’t know what to think.

After what happened at the pool, he was pretty quiet, and helped me dress.

“We should get back out there,” he said, then proceeded to take me back to Dorian’s gala.

He took me home after the evening wrapped, and he was mostly silent on the drive home. I was sure that had to do with the fact that my brother was in the car talking his ear off about Bru.

Apparently, the guys had danced together, and my brother wanted to know if that was a declaration about their relationship. “It all makes sense now,” Thatcher said, appearing more than thrilled. “Things have been so tense between you two. The fight even makes sense now.” Thatcher squeezed Wells’s arm. “I’m glad. You two deserve to be happy.”

I felt gut punched. That I’d somehow been left out of something, but the text that came from Wells after I got inside my house later that night was followed up quickly.

Wells:Bru’s going to be there.

That was when I realized someone else was in the group chat with Wells and me.

And I swallowed upon seeing the message.

Bru:We both want to talk to you. Let us know when’s a good time.

I didn’t know what was happening between us. I just knew something was and whatever it was made my heart race.

“I don’t deserve either one of you guys,”Wells had said. Like there was an us, and it went beyond just Wells and me. I’d never experienced something like this. I just knew I’d loved Wells for a really long time.

But I also loved Bru.

It was crazy to admit that. To have feelings for two guys at the same time.

Me:Sure. Anytime.

Me:At my parents’ summer house just off campus?

Were the guys really going to address what happened between the three of us?