“I was asking about you, not him!”
His tone turns dry. “Sure you were. Because you know how often I tell women I want to f**k that I’d like to be friends to get to know them better first.”
“Couldn’t he just be being a gentleman?”
Marcus pauses before answering. “That was a joke, right?”
I’m hit with a memory. In the hospital on Valentine’s Day as we were all waiting for Chloe to have the baby, listening to Nico ask Brody about the stop he’d said he made on the way to the hospital, and watching Brody squirm over the answer.
Strange. It was strange.
But this whole friends first proposal of his only happened after the condo situation. He was gung ho for me before. Wasn’t he? Or did I sense some ambivalence before that?
I can’t recall.
“You’re not talking, Grace. It scares me when you’
