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was just in here. He isn’t too keen on your kinky little party.”
    Kiera grimaced. “Ouch. Bet that was an awkward conversation.”
    If she only knew.
    “Hey, can you spare an hour or so?” Kiera asked. “I was hoping you could come with me to my condo. I need to pick up a few more things since I’ll be here for a while.”
    Jada shrugged. “I’m unemployed remember? I have all the time in the world.”
    “Thanks,” Kiera said. She went to let Mason know she was leaving, then followed Jada out of the house. They walked over to Kiera’s SUV.
    “Oh, crap,” she said. “I forgot I had all of this in here.”
    Jada peered into the smoke-colored windows, spotting boxes on the backseat and cargo area.
    “I have to bring this stuff to my kitchen tomorrow,” Kiera said.
    “We can take my car.”
    “Are you sure?” Jada seared her with a look, and Kiera held both hands up. “Okay, okay. Thanks. Now I don’t have to go inside and ask Mason to move his car.”
    Jada plunked a hand on her hip and pointed at the blue Mercedes. “What happened to him needing to get his car in the garage? I swear, your brother gets off on irritating me.”
    Jada wondered if she would later question why the thought of him getting off in any way whatsoever sent a zing through her bloodstream.
    “I think you may be right.” Kiera laughed as they walked over to the curb where Jada had moved her car. She shook her head as she opened the passenger-side door and slipped in. “What is it about you two? I have never seen two people who dislike each other so much? I know why Mason doesn’t like you, but why don’t you like him?”
    Jada whipped her head around to her. “Why doesn’t he like me?”
    Kiera glanced over at her, her lips flattened in a frown. “He thinks you’re shallow,” she said. “But it’s because he never took the time to get to know you,” she quickly added. “And he and Eric were sworn enemies long before you ever moved here so I’m sure the fact that the two of you were a couple practically a week after you started at Maplesville High has something to do with it, too. And because you were a cheerleader. Mason always thought cheerleaders were superficial, but that goes back to the point of him believing you’re shallow.”
    “Okay, I get it,” Jada said, pulling away from the curb. After a few minutes, she said, “And to answer your question, I never liked him because he never liked me. And because he thinks he’s better than everyone else.”
    “No, he doesn’t.” Kiera said, looking down at her phone, her thumbs flying furiously over the touchscreen. “Mason is very sweet. Except when he’s around you,” she tacked on.
    Jada huffed out an aggravated snort as she flipped on her left turn signal to head south toward the commercial area where Kiera’s condo was located. The building was yet another sign of Maplesville’s rapidly expanding downtown area. It boasted a slew of new chain restaurants, retail stores, and a huge outlet mall that had beefed up the local economy. The downside was that it also made traffic an ever-loving nightmare on the weekends, when the town was inundated with visitors from all over the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.
    A flashing light on her dashboard drew Jada’s attention. She thumped her fist against the steering wheel. “Dammit, I forgot about putting gas.”
    Jada glanced over at Kiera, whose face was intense as she read something on her phone.
    “Hey,” Jada called.
    Kiera looked over at her. “What?”
    “I just said that I forgot to put gas and you didn’t make a wiseass remark.”
    “Oh, sorry,” she said, and went back to her phone.
    Jada just shook her head as she turned into a filling station. Eventually, she would find out what had Kiera so distracted.
    She pumped twenty dollars’ worth of gas into her car and got back behind the wheel, waving off the bill Kiera tried to hand her as she reached for the hand sanitizer she kept in her glove