Chapter 26

His first thought when he’d seen the unfamiliar number on the phone was that Madison had been stranded somewhere, yet again, by another random date. Yet when he connected the call and mumbled his “what” into the speaker, the voice on the other end of the line sent that idea flying.

“It wasn’t the money,” Jordan whispered.

Ian sat up in bed and frowned. “Jordan? Where are you? What’s wrong? Is it Cole?”

“At Chrissy’s. I asked if I could use her phone to update you.”

“And?” Ian used his free hand to scrub life back into his sleeping face. “Is he okay?”

Jordan snorted a harsh laugh. “He’s fine. Good.”

“Ah,” Ian dropped his hand to his lap. “Good then.”

“I really just wanted you to know that it wasn’t the money,” Jordan repeated. “It may be pride but that pride doesn’t have shit to do with whether you’re spending your money on us.”

“Then why don’t you tell me what it does have to do with?”

Jordan’s inflection dropped into a pout. “I don’t want to talk about it.”