“I’m breaking up with him tonight,” I announced.
May gasped.
Daisy looked at the ceiling. “Here we go again,” she said.
“What?” I asked.
“Jet tried to break up with Eddie,” Daisy told me.
“Didn’t work,” Jet said on a smile.
I turned to Jet in surprise. “Why did you try to break up with him? I saw him last night. He’s hot.”
Jet just stared at me like she thought maybe I’d recently sustained a head injury.
“And Roxie tried to break up with Hank. That didn’t work either,” Daisy continued.
My eyes swung to Roxie. “You did? I saw him last night too, he’s lush.” I took them both in. “Are you two nuts?”
“Um… have you looked at Vance?” Jet asked me.
I shook my head. “It’s not the same thing. Anyway, it’s not about the way they look. It’s about how they act.”
“Sugar, how… exactly… is Vance acting like someone you’d wanna break up with?” Daisy queried.
“He said ‘mine’, like he was claiming me. Like I was a possession or something,” I argued.
This was true. It was just like I was a possession, a highly-valued family heirloom with treasured, precious memories attached that had gone missing and was thought never to be found but, all of a sudden, it was back.
I didn’t tell the girls that though.
“Our boys can get kind of possessive,” Indy shared but she didn’t sound too upset by it. “You get used to it, I just try to ignore it,” she advised.
I persevered. “And, he tells me what to do. All the time,” I informed them.
“Yeah, they can be bossy too,” Indy said on a sigh. “I just go my own way and ignore that too.”
“Wait until you’re branded. Eddie branded me,” Jet added.
I blinked at her. “Branded you? Like they do to cows?” I asked.
She smiled. “Not exactly like that. He just made it known that if anyone touches me, they’ll answer to him or any of his friends.”
“Lee did that with me too, in a way,” Indy threw in.
“Hank too,” Roxie said.
Damn.
“Vance has already done that. The whole Nightingale Investigation Team has thrown down on my side,” I shared.
“I knew that too,” Indy smiled.
“I didn’t! Dammit! Why am I so out of the loop?” Ally snapped.
May broke into Ally’s rant, she sounded exasperated too but at me. “Oh for goodness sake, Jules, you break up with that boy you’re off my Christmas card list.”
I just stared at her, keeping my mouth shut.