“It must be bad. Jax said her phone is disconnected now. You may need to go over there,” he tells her. “Yeah. Love you too, babe. Call me if you need any help.”
As he hangs up, he gives me a bigger look of pity.
“What?”
“Ruby is going to bust your kneecaps with a baseball bat. Sorry.”
That’s not an empty threat. At this moment, I’d stand still and let her take the swings.
“I can’t fix it if she won’t see me, and aside from stalking her apartment to catch her on her way to work or from work, I can’t see her.”
Would it be too much if I sat outside and waited for her to walk to work?
“I sent roses,” I admit, already knowing how lame that is.
“Roses don’t really work,” he points out.
“What’d you do to get Ruby back?”
He frowns. “I don’t think I should be giving relationship advice. Besides, my relationship isn’t… Well, it isn’t the normal standard.”
“I met Bo because she was pretending to be her sister when she went on a family vacation with me. During our three weeks away, we barely spent any time apart, and I barely batted an eye when I realized she was someone else. So, I wouldn’t classify us as the normal standard either.”
He thinks it over before nodding. “I gave Ruby all my boxes of secrets when our game of Triple Dare ended. It sort of bared my soul and all that, since ninety percent of them were about her and all the shit I’d been holding in for years. Don’t suppose you have those on hand.”
Great. One person who actually has a more twisted relationship than me.
“What did Kode do to get Tria back?” I ask.
Desperation makes me look pathetic, but I don’t care.
“Punched a guy in a bar for touching her ass. At least that’s the gist of it. But it was a different set of circumstances.”
I could totally punch someone out for Bo. Hell, Cody would volunteer, considering he’s dodging me since he found out the real story and actually feels like shit. Viv, of all people, showed up and reamed his ass in front of an entire class, and Cody hasn’t made eye contact with me since then.
“Then you have Dane, who showed up with all of us at Rain’s rental across the country and pretty much told her she had to marry him. He wasn’t taking no for an answer. And Kade jumped from a tree to a bedroom window when Raya was avoiding him.”
“I may have it bad for Bo, but marriage isn’t on the table. And Bo lives just under the penthouse floor of her apartment building. No trees reach that high.”
“Tag forced Ash to move in with him, even though technically she was the one who messed up and did the groveling, so I don’t think that situation will work out for you.”
I could totally force Bo to move in with me… Then go to prison for kidnapping.
“Wren sort of had to prove he was father material to win Allie, so again, that doesn’t apply. Then there’s Rye. He—”
“Stopping you there. I’m not sticking a snake in her panty drawer,” I tell him, to which he snickers.
“That prank actually didn’t work out. Anyway, he won her back by telling her about everything in his past he’d been holding back for years. Hell, we still don’t know what happened, to be honest. Only Brin seems to. And Ethan and Wren of course, but they don’t spill secrets.”
Not going to help me. My past was fine, even though I feel like a spoiled brat because of it.
“I gotta get out of here and clear my head,” I tell him, blowing out a breath.
He doesn’t argue when I leave, and my mind turns over a thousand apologies to give her if I ever get the chance. After parking, I head into my apartment building, and it hits me… There’s definitely one thing I’ve done wrong.
The bed.
Bo didn’t want to come here because of her sister.