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with her to a minimum because he just plain didn’t want to. And on spring break when Jess had begged him to go in with her and Bailey on a vacation house they couldn’t afford on their own, what was a big brother to do? He also didn’t much like the idea of Jess and Bailey being in Galveston alone. They might technically be adults, but it did not mean they acted like it. He wasn’t at all sure he did either, for that matter. He was certain of it, in fact, after the night before.
    He watched her black bikini-clad ass walk down to the water’s edge. She stood with her legs shoulder-width apart, and he studied the perfect proportion of her legs. She had fit legs from years of running. They ran together at least a few times a week on campus, so he was very familiar with her build. Her bottom was as tight as her legs, and his groin was tightening with every passing second. He didn’t just like spending time with her too much; he just plain wanted her too much to. It was entirely physical; it was also entirely more than just that.
    She glanced back once, catching him staring at her. From that distance she couldn’t possibly know he was staring at her ass, though he wasn’t sure it really mattered; he was just plain staring at something he had no business staring at. He climbed up from his spot, thanking God she was too far away to see his raging hard-on, and he headed back up to the house as she joined Jess in the water.
    Trinity nearly caught him with his dick in his hand when he gave into the temptation of letting his mind wander away to Bailey for a while. And it wasn’t just Bailey. It was naked Bailey, aroused Bailey, willing and wanting Bailey. She’d watched him fuck his girlfriend for a reason last night, and while alcohol might have played a part on both of their accounts, there was more to it than that. She wanted to see him, she wanted to watch, and it was her want that was driving his arousal as he stood in the bathroom staring into the mirror as the shower heated up.
    Trinity wrapping her hand around the length of his shaft from behind him was an unwelcome interruption. “Looks like someone’s been thinking about me.” Her hand was gliding up and down along his hard length, but he was struggling to deal with the feel of her hand on his skin.
    “Sorry, Trinity. I can’t do this right now.” He peeled her hand away from him and brushed past her as he stepped into the shower.
    He and Trinity weren’t going anywhere. He and pretty much every girl he tried to get involved with never seemed to go anywhere. He ended up bored more often than not, and he just wasn’t sure there was any point. He was going to spend the vast majority of his time, waking and otherwise, in the hospital starting the following year, and residency after that wouldn’t be much better. He wasn’t even sure why he asked women out anymore. It would likely be more respectful to just have random one-night stands. At least then he could avoid dumping them later on when he realized, yet again, he was just bored and unsatisfied. He was starting to think maybe he was an asshole.
    He’d want to kill a man who did the same to Jess, though it was almost easier to think of her pulling that move on a guy rather than the other way around. He would most definitely kill a man for doing it to Bailey. Bailey wasn’t Jess. She was . . . well, he didn’t know what she was. But she wasn’t brazen and loud like Jess. She also wasn’t weak. They were as opposite as could be, but they were attached at the hip. Jess was jealously protective of Bailey, an inclination Darren understood well, and Bailey brought a sense of softness to Jess that she didn’t naturally have on her own.
    All it took was a glare from Bailey to silence Jess when she was being loud and outlandish. Next came the, “Okay, okay, sorry” as Jess rolled her eyes, but it was the restraint that Bailey inspired in her best friend that was most amazing. She gave Jess maturity and