Chapter 3
Reid
“Missed you Saturday night,” I grumbled at Blake as I followed him into the trailer-office parked on the jobsite of the new high school his company had been hired to build.
The two windows opposite each other propped open, allowing the cool spring breeze to air out the small area where he and I sat every morning to go over the progress while downing our coffee.
“That’s what, now? Three?” I asked. “Four guy’s nights in a row you’ve skipped out on?”
“Wren and I had plans,” my best friend and daytime employer explained while sitting and rolling the chair’s wheels to draw closer to his desk.
I pressed my lips tight and settled into the folding metal chair across from him, envy growing inside me like it always did whenever he mentioned his girlfriend.
We had shared her the
