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“If you’ll excuse me for a moment. I need to have a conversation with Isabella about this…Cupcake. It’s the first I’ve ever heard of him.”

Crap.I wasn’t trying to get Isabella in trouble today. I knew my dad required weird relationship contracts and stuff. Isabella was going to be furious with me. But would it really make anything worse? The psycho already wanted me dead.

Betrayal - Chapter 36

Thursday

I turned down a hall that I thought lead to the living room. But it was the one that went to the library. How did I not know where the freaking living room was? I turned around and ran straight into James.

“Hey,” he said with a smile.

“Hi.” God, I couldn’t be alone with him in a random hallway. If Matt saw us together he’d be so beyond pissed.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you,” James said. “I just saw you going to the library and figured it would be a good place to talk.”

He clearly knew this apartment better than I did. “I don’t really have time to chat right now. I left Matt with Isabella. Do you have any idea where the living room is?”

He laughed. “Back that way to the left.” He pointed over his shoulder.

“Great.” I tried to step around him, but he stepped the same way, trying to let me pass, and we both laughed.

“Actually, while I have you, I did want to give you something.” He pulled out something from his pocket.

And for just a second I had a terrible feeling that he was about to propose again.

“What’s with the face?” He held up a thumb drive. “It looked like you were worried I was about to pull a prank on you instead of Isabella.”

Yeah, something like that.“Sorry. What is that?”

He handed the thumb drive to me. “Your completed project for your entrepreneurial studies class.”

“Wait,completedproject? You were only supposed to do the coding.”

He shrugged. “I figured with Matt and Rob fighting it would be hard for you to finish. Now you don’t have to worry about it.”

Wow, that was really nice. “Thanks, James. But that wasn’t necessary.”

“It was no problem.” He gave me one of his real smiles. The ones it seemed like he reserved just for me.

“But it wasn’t necessary. You and Matt are about to be friends again,” I said. “Because the deal was…”

“That we’d talk to him.” James shrugged. “Doesn’t mean we’ll magically be friends again. He kissed my girlfriend.”

“And you kissed me.”

“True. And I don’t feel an ounce of remorse. It was a great kiss.”

I could feel my cheeks getting red. “Well, don’t say that when you talk to Matt. How about you try apologizing instead?”

“That wasn’t part of the deal, Brooklyn. You just said we had to talk.”

“You know what I meant.”

“Did I?”

“James!”

He laughed. “I’m just messing with you. I’ll talk to him. I’ll be nice and everything. I promise.”