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lowered his head at the same time, keeping his dark eyes on them. They looked like sisters with their long, wavy shoulder-length hair. They leaned close to each other and whispered as one corner of his mouth slowly twitched up.
    "Them," he said. "Looks like a two for one deal, but if you're interested in one, Kohl, we can split them up."
    "Nah, go enjoy yourself," I said. "I think I'm going to lay low for the night."
    "Interesting," he said as he raised an eyebrow at me.
    As the night went on, Smith and the other guys found themselves surrounded by a bachelorette party in another VIP booth. The waitress brought Navarro and me another round of cranberry and club sodas, our drink of choice when we scouted for women. We always made sure nothing affected our judgment.
    "You going to tell me about her?" Navarro asked.
    "Tell you about who?" I asked.
    "The reason you're laying low tonight. The reason I haven't been hearing about anyone new. Come on, Gideon, I know you better than these other guys. If you're not chasing tail, you're either sick or you met someone."
    "What about you? I don't see you out there."
    "Because my brothers are more important to me than getting some random piece of ass or two. So you gonna tell me about her?"
    Navarro had four brothers but had long ago declared I was his brother from a different mother. I felt the same way. I didn't make it a habit of opening up to people, but he knew me better than even my actual brother. The only other person who knew me as well was Becca.
    "There's no one to tell you about," I grumbled.
    "Oh come on, I've known you for years now, Gideon. If there's one thing you have never been afraid of, it's falling for someone. Who is it this time?"
    I glared at Navarro as my hands tightened into fists. His words were a swift kick in the balls. I wasn't mad at him though, I was mad at myself. No one knew what I had been going through. No one knew the doubts I had about myself, but Navarro just summed them up.
    "No one," I said through clenched teeth.
    The anger in my voice surprised me. Navarro nodded slowly as he took another drink from his glass.
    "That's a load of shit and you know it," he said.
    "That's enough, Grayson."
    His eyes darted to the table, and I realized what he was going for. My hand darted out to grab my car keys, but he grabbed them and dangled them in front of me.
    "Let me drive the Bugatti tonight and I'll drop it."
    The Bugatti was my baby. Becca called it my girlfriend, but I loved that car more than I had ever loved anyone I dated.  
    He flipped the keys around his finger as his smile grew. He knew he had me. He knew that despite how much I didn't want anyone driving my car, I wanted to talk about this even less.
    "If anything happens to her, I swear I will cut your balls off," I said.
    "Don't worry, your baby is safe with me. I won't even take her out without you. I'll drive you home."
    I nodded as Navarro slid out of the booth with my car keys in his hand. I signaled to the waitress and left several folded hundreds on the table. I was glad to get out of there.
    As Navarro sped down the freeway, I pulled my phone out and texted Becca. She had been on my mind all night despite how much I wanted to not think about her.
    She was my friend, my best friend, but lately I was thinking about her differently. The situation was bad. I did not want to talk about it. I didn't want to even think about it.
    "You've done really well for yourself," Navarro said as he turned the car back towards the city.
    "I owe it all to Gabriel. He hooked me up with the right people," I said.
    "Don't give your brother all the credit, man. If you didn't know your shit and have all these ideas, none of those connections would've mattered."
    "I guess," I said. "I keep expecting it to end. Do you know what I mean? Everything is too good to be true."
    "Screw that, you have to stop thinking like that."
    "What about you? How was your first season in the Major Leagues? Is baseball still what you