DARE-TO-LOVE-TRUTH-AND-DARE-DUET-COLLECTION-by-Lylah-James-pdfarchive

you called and told me about your accident! You broke your
leg, what the hell!”
“Fractured,” Colton amended. “Not broken. She’s lucky
I was next door and heard her cry out.”
“You shouldn’t have climbed up that ladder when you
were home alone. It was never stable.” Lila’s forehead
creased with worry as she fretted over her friend. “You
could have been hurt worse!”
“She could have just called me, and I would have fixed
the broken cabinet,” Colton mumbled under his breath.
Riley hissed, her eyes flashing with annoyance. “I had it
all handled if it wasn’t for the cat jumping into my ladder.
Rory asked me to cat-sit for her while she and Jaxon were
away this weekend.” She faced her nemesis, glaring. “I
didn’t… and don’t need your help, Colton.”
“Funny. I’m the one who drove you to the hospital in the
middle of the night.”
Her shoulder straightened, and her lips curled up in
distaste. “Because you insisted.”
“You were in pain.”
“Who cares? I was fine on my own and could have called
9-1-1!”
“I care,” Colton growled.
Riley opened her mouth to snap back at him, but then
paused at Colton’s confession. She blinked, opened her
mouth again, before finally shutting up. No smartass
comeback? Huh, interesting.
“Whatever,” she mumbled under her breath. “How was
your trip, Lila?”
Lila’s gaze found mine, as she turned red. She blinked
away and sputtered out a half-ass response to her friend.
“Oh, fine. It was fine. Everything was nice and fine.”
“She said fine three times,” Colton muttered to me, soft
enough the girls didn’t catch it.
Riley never shut up, and she asked way too many
questions all the time. Surprisingly, today, she seemed more