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Maggie’s been acting off ever since we ran into her ex out in the hallway.

Apparently, I fucked up again and said the wrong thing.

How was I supposed to know that Wyatt didn’t do something to end their relationship when she refuses to tell me what happened even months later?

And I can’t believe she didn’t tell me that he wanted to marry her. That she obviously considered marrying him since in her words they were “perfect” together.

I don’t know why that angers me so much, but it does.

Maybe it’s because the slack asshole offered her the one thing I can’t.

A commitment.

Sure, it would’ve ended badly eventually, and I would’ve enjoyed helping Maggie divorce the bastard, but the thought of having to watch her walk down the aisle to him is too agonizing to even imagine.

I’m not crazy about sitting in the sun and watching her float around the pool alone in the tiniest bikini ever either, but I think she wanted some space from me.

And I don’t blame her.

“Everything okay after last night?” Monty asks when he takes the lounge chair next to mine. I’m happy to see Kendall joining Maggie in the water.

“It’s fine,” I lie.

“Am I going to have to worry about you socking my best man again this week?”

“No.”

“You have to admit, it’s a little cruel for you two to be rubbing his nose in your relationship,” Monty remarks.

So, I guess his bride hasn’t told him Maggie and I are just pretending this week.

“You’re not wrong,” I agree. “I hated seeing the two of them together. It can’t be easy on him.”

“I don’t know what happened between Wyatt and Maggie, why they broke up so suddenly, but I know Wyatt’s been struggling since she left. Last week he told me he wanted to try and convince her to give him another chance.”

I fucking knew it.

“I wish Kendall had told me that she had moved on, so I could’ve warned the poor bastard,” Monty adds.

“He had his chance and blew it.” Regardless of what Maggie said about her ending things, I have no doubt Wyatt did something to push her out the door.

“I know everyone thinks he’s lazy, that he has no direction in life, and was crazy to drop out of law school. All those things are true,” Monty says. “But he’s also had a tough home life like Kendall. He’s never had any real family. He went from one foster home to another growing up and still managed to not only go to college on a full academic scholarship, but also law school. Who knows why he walked away from it. But I do know that he loved Maggie and worshipped the ground she walked on.”

I swallow around the sudden lump in my throat since that’s pretty much what Maggie said too.

They were “perfect” together.

“He wanted to marry her.”

“He had a ring,” Monty replies. “She just never got the chance to see it. Hopefully, you don’t make the same mistake.”

So even if Maggie and I are also perfect together in every way, I could still lose her because of my commitment issues.

Crossing the line with Maggie suddenly feels dangerous in a whole new way.