Summer and Smoke by Coralee June

Author:Coralee June
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CoraLee June

I should have known that their version of escaping reality would include a trip to an arcade. I’d been expecting a night on the town, a too-tight dress with uncomfortable heels. But instead, I was dressed in denim and tennis shoes, dancing around on the arcade floor while Blaise played whack-a-mole. It was risky, but we didn’t bother telling Joe, Gavriel, or Ryker that we had left. I felt safe with Blaise, and we were in a public enough place. I wanted to feel free again. Just another selfish endeavor on my part.

Nix was high from some pot brownies he’d scored from Gavriel’s sister and was holding me tight while updating me on all that had happened while I was gone. “Gavriel’s sister is a hot mess. I mean that literally. Hot because...like damn. She’s got these bright green eyes...and mess because…” he trailed off, considering his words for a moment. “I think she’s lonely.”

I stared at my best friend, smiling because I recognized the expression on his face. He’d had that same determined smile when I woke up in the hospital and saw him sitting next to me, holding the hand of a stranger. When he connected with a soul, he was committed, it’s just who he was.

“She’s still in high school, right?” I asked. It was an impressionable age.

“She’s eighteen. Attends a private school on the boujee side of town.” Nix rolled his eyes. “But I’m adopting her. She’s gonna be my friend, she just doesn’t know it yet. I just have to get past how frustratingly annoying she can be.” He spun me around, twirling me on his fingers before crushing me to his chest and dragging his knuckles along my cheek. “But you’re my number one girl, don’t you forget it.”

I giggled, accepting the lightheartedness of our evening with a grain of salt. None of it was real, not really. This was just us forcing some normalcy down our throats until the pill was easier to swallow. “Tell me what's on your mind, Sweets.”

I let out a slow exhale as Blaise moved over to the skeeball game, throwing me flirtatious smiles over his shoulder as he bent down to play, the tight jeans covering his ass giving me a generous view of his frame.

I’d battled for the better part of an hour over whether I should ignore everyone’s wishes and go to Callum. His sadness was like a beacon, calling out to me. And I would have gone, would have bought my ticket for the next flight to DC, if I wasn’t so terrified that he’d end things for good.

“The odds are against us. Callum was already on the fence about this...unique arrangement we have. And now he has a genuine reason to hate me. I’m still feeling selfish. One of them isn’t enough; I love them all, Nix.”

We started swaying to the cheesy nineties music playing in the background, our hips swaying to the synthesizer as I relaxed. “What’s going to happen when the newness

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