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Olivia’s eyes lit with mischief. “I found a new friend.”
“Liv,” Josh began.
“Why don’t you introduce us, Olivia,” the brother fromanother mother said.
Nicole knew that was supposed to be a question. But thatwasn’t a question coming out of his mouth. That was a command, and it kind ofmade her heart race.
She wasn’t coming in between brothers. If she started abunch of gossip, people would look at her. She’d done a good job of flyingunder the radar.
“I would be happy to, Grim,” Olivia said before turningNicole’s way and wrinkling her nose. “His real name is Jared, which is a lovelyname, but he’s pissed at his father for dying and leaving him with a prick of astepdad, so everyone calls him Grim. He broods a lot.”
“Olivia.” Josh was the perfect picture of outrage.
Grim simply smiled and held out a hand. “That was a prettyfair assessment. Our Olivia never prevaricates.”
He did not talk like some ranch hand off the range. He was alot like his nickname except when his lips curled up, there was the sweetestdimple in his cheeks. She was suddenly slightly afraid of taking his hand. Likeif she touched him this thing, this pull she felt, would be real, and thatwould be the stupidest thing she could do.
Still, it was rude to ignore him. She put her hand in his,and she was wrapped in warm strength as he placed his other hand over hers.
“And I’m Joshua.” He took her other hand, and she wasbetween them.
Holy hell. Were they…
Just because their mom and dads were a threesome…
Really upped the odds that they wouldn’t mind. Except theywere brothers. Except they weren’t blood siblings.
Except… She was deeply confused, and it would be smart torun right this second.
But it seemed like so much more fun to sit here and talk andpretend she was normal.
“I’m Nicole,” she said and wished she didn’t sound sobreathless.
They both let go at the same time, as though they werecoordinated movements. They sat in the two unoccupied chairs.
“I thought you two were calling it an early night.” Therewas no small amount of teasing in Olivia’s tone.
“There’s a lot of plans changing,” Josh acknowledged andthen turned slightly to the bar. “Ed, bring two beers and double whatever mysister ordered.” He turned back to her, giving her a smile that damn nearmelted her panties. “So, Nicole, where are you from?”
Ah, there it was. She could see reason through the fine mistof lust. “Chicago.”
It was a well-crafted story and one she didn’t have to useoften. She’d discovered most people wanted no more than the minimum factsbefore they felt comfortable talking about themselves and then she could nodalong and give up nothing else.
Olivia looked like the cat who’d gotten all the cream as shestarted talking to Grim and Josh. Like a woman who’d set her brothers up tosucceed.
Would it be so bad? Why couldn’t she have a single night ofpleasure? She would be out of this town in a week. She would have the money,and the mechanic had told her the car would only take a few days to fix.
What if she could see them for those days? On the sly. Ornot. It wouldn’t matter if she was leaving. They could talk about themysterious young woman who worked at the café, dated two men, and thendisappeared.
Or they wouldn’t because something new would come along andthey would forget her. Like these two men would forget her.
But she didn’t have to forget them. She would be in anothercountry by this time next year, trying to make a life for herself.
Couldn’t she go a little wild now?
“You are a long way from home,” Josh said. “How did you cometo be in our town?”
She sat back and decided to go with the flow for once.
