I fought the urge to throw my phone through the window but instead I called Ally.
“Hey,” she answered.
“Yo,” I said.
“You okay after last night?” Ally asked.
“I’m officially Luke’s woman after last night.”
“Yep, that’s the way since the dawn of time. Two men want the same thing, they fight over it and winner takes all.”
“What with struggling with Iron Man Mace, I wasn’t keeping close track but it didn’t seem like anyone was winning.”
“Luke won when he behaved like a Neanderthal, elbowed you in the head and still, without a peep from you, you got in his car with him.”
Yikes.
I had to admit, that was true.
“What was that about Luke thinking about someone else when he was with you?” Ally asked.
Shit.
I knew I’d have to get into that.
“Luke explained I had the wrong end of the stick,” I told her.
“Well, chickie, just to warn you, the girls have been chewing over that all night and all morning. Roxie thinks you think it’s her. Jules is pretty certain you think it’s her. Who was it?”
“Jules,” I answered. “I saw them together and got the wrong impression.”
“That’s what I figured. Listen, Jules and Luke had a thing. It was brief, she thought Vance had broken up with her. Once she found out that Vance –”
My stomach plummeted. “What?” I whispered, interrupting her.
Silence for a beat then, “Oh shit.”
“What did you say?” I asked.
“Ava –”
“What kind of ‘thing’ did Jules and Luke have?”
“It was nothing.”
Oh… my… God.
“What kind of thing?” I repeated.
“It only lasted a couple of days.”
My heart was racing and I was pretty certain I was going to throw up.
“Ava? You there?”
“I have to go.”
“Ava.”