Page 39 of Never To Suffer (The Hollywoodland #4)

YOUNG he’s a pro hockey player who gets in fights and stuff.

I don’t understand the game, but they try to teach me whenever I’m around and the Parrots are playing.

I enjoy going to the games, though, especially now that Sam and Chase have a suite with free beer and food.

I risk it and let my eyes wander up to meet Steve’s.

“Seriously, it’s… okay. We’re good, Dani.”

“I never did anything with them before. Like when they were with you. Okay, I mean, I kissed them, but you were there for that and you were the one that dared us, anyhow. I thought they went to Greece! How could I have known? Wait, they said you sent them music?”

I can’t help myself, letting all my thoughts spill out of my mouth as they form in my brain.

They’re not rational or fully developed, and I keep hoping I can stop before I say something that will cost me one of my best friends.

I give him grief all the time, more than Jamie or Coop, but that’s because Steve means the world to me.

He’s my safety net. Jamie plays my dad figure; I disappoint him regularly, and he tries to keep me in line.

Coop became my twin brother even though he’s like a billion years older than me, we’re constantly picking at each other, but no one should ever come between us for their own safety.

Steve’s the favorite brother, the one I go to with my problems, the one I complain about Xander to, the one who understands me on the deepest and most real level.

I can’t lose him. I can’t lose any of them.

“I did. Do. They never respond, but I get notifications when they open the emails. It’s communication in our own way. Same with Xander and Coop.”

The look on his face shifts, and that’s what makes things a little clearer for me. “You…you still send my songs?”