“Are you really okay with it?” Sadie asked, seeming confused and shocked at the same time. Lyla smiled and nodded. “I didn’t even know that you knew about Trick and me.” “He told me,” Lyla said and then shrugged. “Well, I asked him… it was pretty obvious.” “Pretty… how was it obvious?” “It’s in the way you talk about him, you just… you know.” Sadie was taken aback and opened her mouth then huffed and closed it as she tried to figure Lyla out. “I know what?” “The effect he has on women,” Lyla said. “You get this look in your eyes.” Sadie’s mouth opened and she paled. “I don’t… I don’t feel anything toward him now, I mean we’re friends, I care about him, but… there’s nothing between us.” “I know that,” Lyla said with a nod. She really wasn’t stressed, no matter how much everyone else

