Page 34 of Wright Together

“Yeah. Just don’t be stupid. What are your plans this weekend?”

“As if there’s anything to do in this bumfuck town.”

I laughed. “Fair. I grew up in Seattle. It does feel small. But doesn’t your dad have a lake house?”

“He won’t let me go,” he grumbled.

“Probably earned that.”

Colton shot me a dirty look.

“Well, there’s an indoor soccer game tonight. I don’t know if a city boy like you would be interested in something like that.”

He frowned. “What’s in it for you?”

“Believe it or not, people do things that have no benefit for them at all.”

A car pulled up at that moment, stopping directly in front of us. The window rolled down, and Emery smiled at us both. “Hey, Colt. Let’s get going.”

“Can I go to a soccer game with Whitt tonight?”

Emery bit her lip and looked up at me. “Uh, we’ll have to ask your dad. You want him to go?”

“Sounds like he needs to get out of the house,” I said with a shrug.

“Yeah,” she said, and her eyes told the story of what it must be like, living with a disgruntled teenager right now. “We’ll ask Jensen, okay?”

“He’s going to say no,” he muttered and then got into the passenger seat and stared out the window.

“Good luck,” I said with a laugh.

She sighed again. “Yeah. Thanks, Whitt.”

I had serious doubts that Colton would be there tonight. And since it would be the first time I’d see Eve since last weekend, maybe it would be for the better.

“Go out there and kick ass,” West said as he planted a kiss on Nora’s lips.

She laughed. “Uh, I think I kind of suck, but thanks.”

“You’ll do great.”

I rolled my eyes as West drew his girlfriend in closer. They were saccharine sweet. I was happy for my brother, but the public displays were sometimes too much. And I wasn’t the only one.

“Get your hands off my sister,” Campbell said, punching West in the shoulder.

“Campbell, shut the fuck up,” Nora said with an eye roll. “You’re always all over Blaire.”

“Yeah, well, Blaire isn’t anyone’s little sister.”

“That’s a ridiculous double standard.”

I tuned out my friends as my eyes roved the indoor soccer center for the woman who occupied my thoughts and dreams. With the way she operated, she’d probably be running in after the game already started. The only time I’d known her to be on time was when someone else was driving her.

I checked my phone to see if she’d texted and found a message from an unknown number. I clicked on it.

Dad said no

Its Colt btw