Excerpt of Fish Out of Water

Tearing my gaze away from Astrid, and hopefully breaking the power of whatever cat has my tongue and pull my phone up so I can study the screen.

J.K.: So, hope you don’t mind, but Cecilia is coming as my dates. See you this weekend, dude.

I almost drop my phone, but then my grip tightens and I exhale. There’s a reason why I call Justin King JK. He’s really good at shooting a shocking email, and then five second later texting JK!

So I wait. And I wait and I wait and I wait.

Finally, my phone pings.

J.K.: I’d say just kidding, but I’m not really kidding. Can’t help it she’s hot.

Clenching my fist around my phone, I curse the day I thought Justin would make a good friend. 

Bringing Cecilia back into my life like this? I mean, sure she was one of the guys until just a year ago, but she chose which side of the gender line she wanted on very decidedly. And I stupidly went along with it, not realizing that femininity precluded tearing men’s hearts out of their chests and crushing it with their talons.

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