Chapter 12: Chapter 12

“This isn’t the place, Ty,” he warned. Hopefully, using the other man’s nickname would show him how serious he was.

“What? Nobody’s here but you and me.”

“And Kira.”

“An impartial third party.”

AJ scoffed at the description. “She’d only be impartial if she wasn’t getting a cut of our paychecks.”

“That just makes her equally invested in both of us, then. Nobody better to get an opinion from. She can’t afford to upset either one of us.”

“Tyrone has a point,” Kira piped up.

His hands picked up the tempo, swinging into a different version they rarely used. He was getting too agitated to stay with the easier Ellington slide.

“Why are you doing this?” AJ asked, trying his best to ignore Kira. “I thought we got this straightened out upstairs.”

“This isn’t the same thing.”

“How is it not the same thing? We agreed you weren’t going to bother me about dating anymore.”