Illegal Motion: Boys of Fall by Erin Nicholas

Author:Erin Nicholas [Nicholas, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Erin Nicholas
Published: 2015-10-01T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“So Lacey is the reason you haven’t had any serious relationships here?” Jackson asked as soon as Carter sat back down at the table.

He wasn’t sure he wanted to have this conversation but he wasn’t sure that he didn’t. He wasn’t sure that Jackson would let him get away with not having it anyway.

What he was sure of was that he needed more coffee.

“You knew there was a woman keeping him out of serious relationships here?” Nolan asked.

“No.” Jackson looked a little put out at that. “He hasn’t said a damned word about it. Her. Any of it. But I assume she’s the reason?”

“It’s…” Carter started. But how the hell did he explain all of this? “Complicated.”

“Yeah, considering she was actually Big G’s girl, I can see why that would be complicated,” Jackson said dryly.

“She was…”

“What?” Nolan asked when Carter failed to go on.

Carter blew out a breath. “She was both of ours.”

Nolan’s eyebrows went up. “You were both sleeping with her? I never caught on to that the times I saw you guys all together. Did G know?”

“Of course he…no, we weren’t…just the one…” Carter raked a hand through his hair. “It was…”

“Complicated?” Nolan supplied with a grin.

“Explain it,” Jackson said simply. “Nolan and I are pretty sharp guys.”

“Okay, fine. Fuck it. Garrett and I met her on the same night. The three of us hung out for over a year. A lot. I probably fell in love with her about the same time G did. But he was the one who was the official boyfriend. They both lived in the city and Garrett was…the better guy for her.”

Jackson was watching him with more understanding in his eyes than Carter had ever seen. Jackson had been a wild ass in high school. But he’d left Quinn for about twelve years and had truly changed. He had spent the years since high school counseling at-risk teens. The idea that Jackson could see past whatever Carter was saying on the surface shouldn’t surprise him, he supposed.

“So you had a perfect relationship,” Jackson said. “You got to go down for the weekends, fuck and have fun, and then come home and let G deal with the real day-to-day stuff.”

“Except that Garrett was the fun one who got to fuck her,” Carter said, knowing he sounded stupid.

“I thought you were just going down to hang out once in a while,” Nolan said. “I didn’t realize you were there so much.”

“Probably too much,” Carter muttered.

“So you were going to see them for…what?” Nolan asked.

“To hang out. Be with them.”

“But you weren’t with them?” Jackson asked.

“Just one night.”

Jackson seemed to be considering that.

“So what did you get out of it?” Nolan asked.

Carter shrugged. “Sounds stupid.”

“Oh, say it anyway,” Nolan said, with a grin.

“Fuck you, Winters,” Carter muttered.

“Hey, seeing the big tough I-know-everything Carter Shaw sounding stupid like the rest of us is kind of nice,” Nolan said. “Come on. Tell us something stupid.”

“Okay, fine. I wasn’t getting laid down there, I knew my best

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