Total pages in book: 37
Estimated words: 35807 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 179(@200wpm)___ 143(@250wpm)___ 119(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 35807 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 179(@200wpm)___ 143(@250wpm)___ 119(@300wpm)
“We both have work to do,” she says.
“So, no quickie before you leave?” I motion to my cock.
“I mean, who am I to deny such a beautiful thing?” She smirks before she throws back the covers and climbs onto my lap, completely naked. I thought she said she walked out to the living room. “I got naked again because I want a quickie.” She winks and leans in to kiss me.
This girl.
Fuck! This girl is everything.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
PIPER
I’m nervous, and I don’t exactly know why. Ezra reaches for my hand and entwines our fingers as we walk toward the front door. I’m used to going to these dinners—they are a regular occurrence—but it’s usually only family and significant others. I’ve never brought a man home, let alone introduced one to everybody. Even though most of them know Ezra, it still feels weird.
“They already know me,” he reminds me, even though I was just thinking the same thing.
“You haven’t met them all.”
“Okay, so who am I missing?”
“The wives,” I tell him as Sailor opens the door. She beams at us and pulls me in for a hug. I never knock, but tonight, I thought it was the right thing to do. She lets me go and turns to Ezra.
“So glad you could make it.” Stepping back, she pulls the door open wider and waves us in. “Ezra, good to see you again.”
“You too. Thanks for having me tonight,” he says politely. I smile at his nice-guy voice because I know what the other voice sounds like when he whispers in my ear and tells me to be a good girl.
“Oh, so polite. We don’t get that around here too often.” She winks as Keir sidles up to us.
“Are you trying to say we aren’t polite?” His arm goes around her waist.
“Nooo.” She shakes her head with silent laughter.
I pull Ezra down the hall, trying to get him away from them because I know they’ll start kissing any second.
“Oh, new blood for us to play with,” Lucas yells. Chanel smacks his shoulder and gives us a wave from the table, which is already set up. There’s an extra plate next to where I usually sit. I walk around and touch his chair before I take my seat.
“Good to see you as well, Lucas,” Ezra says, then addresses Joey. “Joey.”
I haven’t had the chance to chat with Joey and Keir to see what they said to Ezra, but I will.
“Joey and Keir threatened your life, and they didn’t even invite me,” Lucas says to Ezra with a pout. “So, side note… you can kill her, and I won’t be mad, but if you fuck with me…” He winks.
“You’d be mad, don’t lie. You love Piper,” Chanel says.
Lucas and I both stare at her.
“Are you insane?” Lucas and I say at the same time, “I only love you. She’s annoying.”
“How did the books go?” Adora asks me.
I introduce her to Ezra before I answer, “I finished them.”
“Are these the spicy books you gave her?” Joey asks, and Adora nudges him. “What? We all know you read porn, woman.”
“You read porn?” Ezra asks me, and I see the glint in his eyes. The ideas are forming at the back of his mind.
I’m not sure how I know that, but I do.
“Porn?” Keir asks, holding Sailor’s hand as they walk in just ahead of the servers carrying the food.
My plate is set in front of me, and Ezra glances at it.
“Yes, Piper here has been reading up on porn.”
My head swings to Lucas. “I have not, you asshole.”
“Lucas,” Chanel warns him. He merely smirks at me and starts eating.
“So, you invited Ezra for a chat today and didn’t think to invite me?” I ask, turning my pasta on my plate.
Everyone goes silent before Joey speaks, “It was a man-to-man discussion,” he replies, and I eye him with a warning, gripping my knife, getting ready to throw it.
Joey knows I hate that shit.
We are equals.
Ezra takes my hand and pulls the knife free.
“I have bigger balls than most of you,” I point out.
Ezra chuckles next to me.
“Oh, she does,” Sailor agrees.
“Don’t encourage her,” Keir warns. “We needed to speak to him. You know, we don’t just let anyone in, Piper.”
“So if it was about that, why wasn’t I there?”
“Because we wanted to make it perfectly clear we would kill him if he hurt you.”
Everyone goes silent.
“I want to add… I would not kill you, Ezra. You can hurt her.” Lucas waves his fork at Ezra.
Ezra’s hand finds my thigh under the table and squeezes it.
“And I respect and get it. Though I think if anyone would kill me if I hurt her, it would be Piper. I have a feeling she is quite capable of doing it herself.”
“Not when she’s in love with you,” Lucas spits out, and we all turn to gape at him.