Secret Baby For My Best Friend's Brother: A Second Chance Romance (The Spades Brothers) by Callie Stevens

Author:Callie Stevens [Stevens, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Jackson

The Dirty Dozen is packed with people, and both Locke and Axel show up. We order wings and sodas, all of us not used to drinking anymore.

“This feels kind of lame,” Axel says, and I snort.

“Why, because we’re usually three sheets to the wind by the time the wings come?”

Axel shrugs. “Yeah. I guess we’re like, old married guys now.”

“Speak for yourself,” I mumble.

“So, are you gonna tell Axel why you’re an idiot?” Locke asks, and I groan.

“Can Axel keep his big fat mouth shut?” I ask.

“I kept my mouth shut about your sister getting knocked up by Locke,” he retorts, and I think about pushing him out of his chair but I restrain myself.

“Fine. So, it turns out I hooked up with Zoe when we were younger, and I forgot about it.”

Axel stares at me. “You what?”

“I hooked up with—”

He cuts me off. “No, I mean you forgot about it? How?”

“I was drunk,” I say glumly.

“Maria drunk,” Locke tells Axel.

Axel’s eyes widen. “Ohhh, so you were like me right after Harley left me drunk. That makes sense. I don’t know what I did the whole first month.”

“You get it,” I say, pointing at him, and Locke shakes his head. He’s always been a bit of a teetotaler, except for on rare occasions on tour when he had a bit too much to drink.

“So, she’s mad that you didn’t remember,” Axel says. “That makes sense.”

He tears into the wings, dipping one into blue cheese. I wrinkle my nose. I’m more of a ranch kind of guy, but to each his own.

“I guess,” I say. “She hasn’t explicitly said it.”

Locke scoffs. “Of course she didn’t. She wants you to remember on your own.”

“How was I supposed to remember on my own? It’s been nearly five years ago, and I was in a really bad place. Surely she knows that. Besides, she hooked up with me anyway, so what does that say?”

“That she likes you,” Axel says, sucking the wing sauce off his fingers. “That maybe she’s forgiven you, but she still wants you to remember.”

“I do remember, kind of,” I mumble, and Locke raises an eyebrow.

“Why does that sound like you remember more than you told me?”

I groan. “I think that I might have been upset about Maria after we finished,” I explain.

“What do you mean by upset?” Axel asks, staring at me.

“Like… I think maybe she comforted me about Maria,” I say in a low voice, and they both groan loudly.

“You ass,” Locke says.

“You idiot,” Axel says at the same time.

“I know! I know, you’re both right, but now I don’t know what to say to her.”

“You say you’re sorry for being a giant asshole when she was a kid. You explain that you were a mess but that you’re in a better place now,” Axel advises, and I give him a look.

“That’s… shockingly good advice, coming from you.”

He shrugs. “I basically had to tell Harley that same thing. I had to apologize for the guy I was and convince her that I was gonna be a different guy in the future.

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