More Than Enough (Enough #2) by Kate Daniels Page A

me of me before I had you and Bray.” I just groan in frustration and accept that Athena is coming with us. Once Carter relates to somebody, I don’t have a chance of talking her out of including them.
    I just promise myself to watch Athena and make sure that she’s not using Carter. That’s one thing I absolutely hate. People that want to use the three of us for our money or popularity. We’ve had a shitty deal in the parent department so I feel like we deserve some loyalty in our friends. But for right now , I push my disappointment aside about not getting alone time with Carter, and just decide to make the best of Athena coming along. At least she’s really nice to look at.
    We go to a local barbeque restaurant and all eat a ton of food. Athena talks and jokes around a lot but doesn’t say much about her parents or her background. She talks about her job as a waitress at a wings bar near the college, and we all laugh at all the things drunks have said to her on the job.
    As we are laughing about a story she told about a guy that got so drunk he couldn’t find his car so he reported it stolen, but when the police found it in the parking lot, he was so embarrassed that he tried to drive off. The police then arrested him for drunk driving. As we were finishing up our food, Brayden walked into the restaurant. I was sitting by Carter and knew that he would want me to move so he could sit beside her. The part of me that was still resentful decided not to offer to move beside Athena. Carter jumped up and into his arms as soon as he reached the table. “Bray, how did practice go?” He just hugged her close and breathed her in for a minute, and I had to clench my fists and make a concerted effort to keep them by my side. He talked to her quietly as she was wrapped in his arms. For some reason watching them like this just immediately made me miserable and incensed.
    I saw Athena shoot me a look of pity which just infuriated me further that I was so transparent with how I felt. Before I could get myself together and pretend that I wasn’t about to jump on Brayden and beat him to a pulp, Carter says, “Kell, Bray and I want to see each other for a little bit before I have to go back to my dorm. Do you mind driving Athena home?” The mood that watching them had put me did not make me want to do Carter a favor, but somehow I still agreed to what she asked. I think that the habit of just saying yes to her was going to be really hard to break.
    After Carter and Brayden left, Athena just sat across from me in silence until I finally broke it by saying, “Sorry, Carter just up and left you like that. Anymore when she and Brayden get around each other; they fucking lose their minds.” Athena just gave me a calm smile and told me, “I’m glad you’re driving me home. I like to be around you, Keller.” Her statement eased the hurt just a little. Even if Carter dropped me as soon as Brayden showed up, at least this beautiful girl seemed to like being around me.
    I knew I was still too wrapped up in Carter to do anything about it, but at least I wasn’t completely unappealing to the opposite sex, just the one girl that mattered to me at all. I paid for Athena’s dinner when the waitress brought the check even though she fought me insistently about it, which I admired her for trying to pay her own way.
    We walked up to my truck, and I opened the door for her just like I always do with Carter. I didn’t help her inside but with her long legs she didn’t have any trouble. I got in and started driving towards the dorms. I know Carter said that Athena was in the one next to hers. She started singing along to the song on the radio, and her voice was just terrible. But I kinda liked the fact that she st ill sang out loud even though she wasn’t good.
    I pulled into her dorm’s parking lot, and she leaned over closer to me and said sweetly, “Thanks for the ride and dinner, Keller. You’re a really great guy.” She leaned in