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AIDEN
Hanging with Jacob’s brother relaxed one part of me and confused the f**k out of another. Being with him gave me that sense of home I’d been missing out in California, the comfortable feeling of rightness I’d always had around his family.
But something more lay beneath the surface of an old friendship found again.
I’d felt the tension from Jed, and while I hated that my presence stirred supposed sinful thoughts in his head, I reveled in knowing why he held that pillow in his lap.
Memories had crashed through me all night long of his behavior as a teenager. His sneaking around, side-eyeing me all the damn time, flushed face if I gave him my full attention. The boners he’d popped around me and tried to hide.
Sadist.
I smirked at my bedroom ceiling, my hands laced behind my hea
