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ultimatum: her or you.” He shrugged with a small smile. “Of course I chose you.”
     

Chapter 4
    Angel
    Both Alex and Angel threw their gym bags in the backseat of Alex’s truck. It’d worked out for Angel that the team photo day was today. They had to show up that morning. Between that and then waiting for their turn for all the individual shots, they’d been there until almost noon. Sarah, Syd, and Luna had gone out for breakfast because Syd would be heading out after. Angel missed out on being around the guy and wouldn’t get to be there to see him off.
    If Sarah picked up on Angel’s sarcasm when he expressed his regret over missing out, she didn’t show it. He was certain she’d at least chuckle when he laid the disappointment on a little thick, but, instead, she sounded weird. Almost down. He hated to think she was feeling that sad about Sydney leaving so soon.
    “I need a favor,” Alex said, starting up his truck.
    Angel turned to him. “What?”
    “I need you to cover for me this weekend at the restaurant. You’re off, right?”
    Frowning, Angel pulled his phone out to check for any new messages from Sarah. “Yeah, I’m off. So’s Sarah,” he said, meaning they would’ve had the weekend off together, but it was rare that Alex asked him to cover for him, so he’d likely be working now.
    “I’m only scheduled to open Sunday.” Alex glanced at him then straight ahead again. “Saturday I’m scheduled all day, but Julio said he can cover for me that evening. He just can’t come in until two, so both days you’d only have to cover for me in the mornings. You’d be free both nights and early.”
    That didn’t sound so bad. “Yeah, I can do that,” he said, glad he and Sarah hadn’t made any real plans yet. “You and Val taking off for the weekend or something?”
    Angel remembered overhearing Sarah and Val talking not too long ago and Val saying she was hoping to make a trip up to Havasu before the summer was over.
    “No,” Alex said quickly. “That’s another thing. Don’t tell Sarah you’re covering for me. Valerie thinks I’m working all weekend.”
    Frowning, Angel looked away and out the window. He got that his brother and Valerie weren’t exclusive. They never had been as far as he knew, and their relationship had always been a bit explosive. Normally, Angel didn’t get involved in his brothers’ love lives, but it sucked that this was Sarah’s cousin he was messing with. “I’m not gonna lie to her, Alex.”
    “I’m not asking you to lie,” Alex said as Angel turned to meet his brother’s soured face. “Just don’t mention me at all. Say Dad asked you to come in, period. She doesn’t have to know you’re covering for me.”
    “Can I ask you something?” Angel said, curious who Alex would go through all this trouble for.
    “No,” Alex said simply but firmly, making Angel laugh.
    He wanted to ask him why he’d lie in the first place if he and Valerie weren’t exclusive. If he wasn’t her boyfriend, then he was free to do what he wanted. What was the point of trying to cover it up?
    But before he could, the message indicator blinking on his phone got his attention. He clicked on it and saw it was a message from Sarah.
    Something’s come up. Melanie’s gonna cover for me tonight at the restaurant, and I won’t be able to see you before your practice either. Maybe after?
    Immediately, his laughing mood was squashed. Something came up? Had she actually given up hours at the restaurant to hang out with Sydney longer? Somehow he didn’t think it’d take a whole lot of persuading on Sarah’s behalf for Sydney to decide to stay another day. Maybe more. Angel had seen the way Sydney looked at her yesterday and seen the way he held her in his arms when she hugged him. Angel may as well have been invisible those first few moments they embraced. If it had been anyone else, Angel would’ve blown a fuse. Hell, even with it being Syd, her longtime best friend,