Chapter 45
Chapter forty-five
Duncan
Get Rafiki-ed
Every time I blink I see it. Rhys kissing "Meek Car" under the sparkling lights. A midnight kiss after singing a song he wrote about falling in love.
It's disgusting.
I'm sick with jealousy.
My phone buzzes again. Delilah called the moment it happened last night and I sent her to voicemail. Texting her to say I was at a party and couldn’t talk.
Then about eight minutes after midnight Rhys started calling.
I left my phone in the kitchen last night and when I got up to get ready for the gym today I saw his calls ended around three.
Tomorrow we fly to Nashville, of-fucking-course. Why couldn’t we go to L.A. or Vancouver instead of literally the one place in the country I don’t want to be.
My workout playlist is interrupted by a text notification. Then two more.
I finish my set of trap bar deadlifts and check my messages as two more roll in.
DELILAH
Oh baby brother where are you?!
Sad boy isn’t a good look on you.
How do I know you’re sad?
Because you’re ignoring me.
DUNCAN!! YOU LITTLE SHIT. ANSWER ME!
Leave me alone.
He lives!!!
Hold on let me cancel my missing person’s alert.
Shut up Del.
Never.
His team released a statement saying the kiss was unexpected and that they're not together.
link to article titled “midnight miss”
And you're just going to believe that. That kiss was pretty public.
But he was wincing, he was not into it.
Your opinion.
Photo zoomed in of Rhys and Mike Kerrs’s kiss.
He definitely looks like he ate something awful.
You need to get him back.
I never had him in the first place.
You and I both know that isn't true.
It doesn’t matter.
Duncan.
Delilah.
Don’t be like this. What does Crosby say?
shrug emoji
What does that mean?
He’s got a newborn.
You haven’t talked to him?
No, he has his own shit.
Then who is looking after you?
Rhys was.
But I can’t admit it.
Besides, I’m sure Delilah is about to figure it out.