My dad looks like shit, and the girls’ mom looks even worse. I had left that part of the story out when I’d told him. Lenny rolled her eyes and brushed my pain off. “Damn it, Lenny, you need to keep your Amazon strength to yourself. Rip threatened to kick his ass, and that was the end of it.” I winced. She literally punched me right in the shoulder, and I didn’t bother trying to pretend like it didn’t hurt because it did. “Let’s just say I went all Judo on my cousin and his elbow is going to be hurting for a while.” I moved my gaze back to my siblings down the table. Plucking at a royal blue thread from my dress, I wrinkled my nose and whispered, “Yeah, I meant to call you, but I spent the rest of the day with Lily and worked all day yesterday.” Cooper was in the middle of a conversation and not listening. I eyed my siblings down the table then made sure Mr. “How did it go? Did you see you-know-who?” “You never texted me back the other night,” Lenny decided to change the subject instead of reminding me that I had a reason to be a little sad. Getting to look at the hot guys at her gym was a nice bonus too. Lenny had literally walked over to me while I’d been toweling sweat off and asked, “You wanna get something to eat?” Maybe she had seen the loneliness in my eyes, because I’d been pretty freaking lonely back then, or maybe she had just been bored, but going with her had been one of the best decisions I had ever made.īecause of her, I’d added more people to my extended family-her grandpa and his best friend. She was one of my favorite people in the entire world, and I had no idea why this three-time Judo national champion and one-time world champion had picked me out of a self-defense class she’d been teaching and decided to make me her friend eight years ago. Almost.īut we all knew she wasn’t, and we loved her for it anyway. In a button-down cotton dress she had borrowed from me because she still couldn’t lift one of her arms over her head after a surgery she’d had two months ago, she almost looked sweet with her sling on. Elena DeMaio, or Len or Lenny as everyone called her, snickered and swung her gaze over to my direction.

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