“Justin, Chris, and Jessica headed down to the Dungeon,” Lexie told her. His little sister was engulfed in one of Patrick’s shirts, the way she always was when Jake was at the club. Thankfully.

“Have you seen Brian around?” Sharon asked, drawing Jake’s attention back to her. Why the hell was she asking about her ex? His scowl deepened.

Kate was shaking her head. “Sorry hun, still haven’t seen him tonight.”

“Why do you need him? Didn’t you just get what you need from his friend?” The words were out of Jake’s mouth before he really had time to think about them. Not that he’d take them back. Like, seriously, come on. He knew they weren’t telling their friends that they were fucking, but now Sharon was bordering on rude. Of course, not knowing that they were fuck buddies, all of their friends now thought he was being a dick.

Patrick elbowed him in the side and Kate was actually gaping at him.

“I’m pretty sure that’s none of your business,” Sharon snapped back at him, her dark eyes blazing as her chin lifted. Her breasts lifted too, heaving against the tightness of the corset, and the more Jake tried not to notice the more he couldn’t help but notice.

Dammit. He’d come in horny, gotten pissed, and now he was both at the same time. It was not a comfortable combination.

“Just saying,” he said with a nonchalant air that he didn’t feel, lifting his beer to take a long swig. The crisp, hoppy flavor helped center him a little.

“Which friend?” Lexie asked curiously.

“I was just talking to Kincaid,” Sharon said irritably. She glared at Jake. He smirked back at her. Funny, now that she was getting pissed at him, he found himself less angry. Of course, it helped that he was pretty sure she was being truthful about talking to Kincaid. The jealous monster that had taken up residence inside of his chest subsided a little.

Although he still didn’t know why she wanted to talk to her ex.

“Oh,” Kate said, her face lighting up. “Are you going to ask him-“

“No,” Sharon said immediately, cutting Kate off and stirring Jake’s curiosity. Although, he didn’t know how to find out what Kate thought Sharon might ask Kincaid without giving away that he was way more interested in Sharon and what was going on in her life than he should be.

This not telling their friends thing was for the best, but it was more inconvenient than he’d thought it would be. Especially right now when they were all hanging out together and he really needed to talk to Sharon about what they were doing – what she was doing.

“Actually, I’m feeling kind of tired, I’m going to get out of here,” Sharon said, smiling at Kate and completely ignoring Jake.