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She snapped her fingers. “So go fuck yourself with the ‘not everyone’s into bodies like mine.’ As far as I know, you’re not planning on gangbanging ‘everyone.’ Weston Aldrich is clearly into your body, honey. Don’t try to talk yourself out of the facts.”
My brow pinched. “I think…I don’t want to talk about this anymore.”
“Fine.” She slapped her thighs. “Let’s talk about your date with Thomas tomorrow night. Maybe you should make out with him too. For science.”
I snorted a laugh, happy about the subject change. “Oh, well, if it’s for science…”
Two bottles of wine later, I was happily tipsy and had pushed the hottest make-out session of my life out of my head.
Mostly.
Okay, not even a little.
Chapter Thirteen
Weston
“Youneedtorelax.”Luca pushed my drink toward me. “Drink up. You have another long week staring you in the face.”
I picked up my glass. “I’m relaxed as I get.”
Elliot chuckled and leaned back in his seat. “Which isn’t relaxed at all.”
Luca shot him a look. “Pot, meet kettle.”
Elliot slung an arm over the back of his chair. “I’m relaxed. Just because I’m not out riding motorcycles and going to house parties like a fucking frat boy doesn’t mean I’m incapable of relaxing.”
It was Sunday. Elliot had just arrived home from his Dubai trip two days prior. He’d spent the afternoon with his sister. Tonight, the three of us had gone to dinner, and now we were having a few drinks at a bar we often frequented.
Luca held up his beer. “There’s no need for you to be jealous of my active social life. Just because I have more than two friends doesn’t mean I don’t love you guys the most.”
Elliot’s eyes rolled. “As if I’m insecure about my place in your heart. I’m firmly wedged in there.”
Luca winked at him and patted his chest. “For lifers, bro.”
“Please don’t say bro. Or lifers. It offends me.” I tipped back my bourbon and soda, finishing it off.
“Speaking of.” Luca nodded to someone near the bar. “There’s Celeste. Looks like she’s got some friends with her.”
“Oh, Celeste,” I said drolly. “I have no idea who that is.”
Luca backhanded my arm. “I took her to the Saviano benefit. You met her. Auburn hair, hot body, sucks dick like she’s being paid for it.”
Elliot’s brow winged. “Was she?”
Luca raised his glass in cheers. “Fuck off, old man. I’ve never paid for a lay in my life. That’s a strictly volunteer position.” He hopped up from his seat. “I’m going to bring them over.”
I groaned. The women who flocked around Luca were always the most insufferable. Gorgeous, obviously, but I needed more than a pretty face to keep me interested, and that was all most of Luca’s women offered.
Elliot angled himself toward me. “You never said, did you catch up with Elise on her hike yesterday?”
I happened to be talking to Elliot when Elise had texted where she was spending her day yesterday. Something had come over me—panic was probably the word—and I’d followed her. She’d been easy to find and hadn’t noticed me behind her until I’d made myself known.
I didn’t let even an ounce of guilt flicker across my face. “No. We must have missed each other.”
If she hadn’t told her brother about what had happened yesterday, I wouldn’t be the one to do it. Not the mountain lion. Definitely not what had happened after.
He shook his head. “I can’t believe she went out on her own again. Next time I see her, I’m going to throttle her. I’d intended to this morning, but she’d been so thrilled by the presents I’d brought back for her, I didn’t have the heart to yell at her.
