few days.”
“I’m sure.”
Zeke walked out of the room to grab the bar bell, and when he came back, we did the same basic procedure all over again. When I was all done, I hopped off the table.
“Your turn.” I said, smirking at Hailey.
When he finished, we walked out to the front of the store so we could pay and get the aftercare instructions.
I grabbed my wallet from my purse, but Zeke shook his head. He nodded over my shoulder. Hunter winked at me. Great. That’d piss Dominic right off. I turned back and handed Zeke some cash as a tip so it’d look like I paid.
I put my arms around Dominic and asked him what he thought.
“Looks cute. I like it.” Then he leaned in to kiss me.
I pulled back a second later and said, “No getting carried away.” I stuck my tongue out at him and took off running and laughing out of the store.
I heard Dominic groaning as he came up behind me. He put his hands on my hips, “Baby, that is fucking sexy.”
We said our goodbyes to Hunter and Hailey as they took off on Hunter’s street bike. How the hell did he get that down here? I got a little jealous of the fact that he was riding with her; he never let anyone ride with him but me.
On the way home with Dominic, I decided to tell him about my brothers’ visit. Because everything seemed to be going better for us again, I didn’t want to start of hiding stuff from him.
“Babe, you know that I don’t care about you hanging out with your brothers, but I have a problem with you being with Hunter.”
“And I have told you a hundred times, you have nothing to worry about.” I said, squeezing his hand as we were walking back to his car.
“It’s not you, it’s him. Just don’t go anywhere alone with him, alright?” He said, squeezing my hand back.
“Promise.” I was making a lot of promises lately. I prayed that I could keep them all.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Everything was finally feeling back to normal with Dominic and me. We were spending a lot of time with each other. Cooper and Mason kept postponing their trip because of Jackson. Chloe was having some blood pressure issues with her pregnancy, and he didn’t want to leave her until he knew she was ok. Finally, after the third time rescheduling, Jackson just told Cooper and Mason to go without him.
We had a whole weekend of shit to do while they were here. They were going to call me when they finally made it to Hunter’s, and then we were all going to meet at Raven’s to get something to eat.
I needed to do some studying since I wouldn’t have time this weekend. Hailey was spending more and more time with Hunter and Zeke lately, but she was here today. I guess she was excited to see Mason, even though she wouldn’t admit it. She jumped in the shower since we still had a little while before we would meet up with everyone.
When she walked out of the bathroom, I heard her sniffle. I looked up and her eyes were all red and swollen.
“Hails, what’s going on? Why are you crying?”
She just shook her head and walked over to her dresser, her back turned towards me. I placed my hand on her shoulder, and she broke down.
“Please, sweetie, tell me what is wrong.”
She shook her head again. I pulled her over to the bed and she curled up in a ball with her head on my lap. We stayed like this for a while. She cried and I ran my fingers through her hair. I knew she would talk to me when she was ready.
Finally, she started to calm down. I reached over and handed her a tissue. She wiped the remaining tears, sat up and played with the tissue in her hand.
Then she said so low I barely heard her, “I love Mason.”
“Oh. Hails, I know.” I reached over and hugged her. “You think I didn’t notice all the sneaking around you were doing back home?”
She shrugged her shoulders.
“Why didn’t you tell me before?”
Sighing, she looked up at me and said, “I didn’t want you to get upset with me and freak out that I had a crush on your brother. I know you hated all the girls fussing over him in high school.”
“You are my best friend, and you are nothing like those girls. I’m glad you finally