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“Do you like scary movies?” Tanner asked curiously.
“No!” she half-yelled, hoping they weren’t horror junkies. Being scared wasn’t her idea of a good time. She had an extensive knowledge of the genre thanks to the Medina brothers, but she still couldn’t watch one with the volume on. “But even I know that scenario is just asking for someone to get hacked to pieces.”
“Hacked to pieces?” Vinyl repeated with a raised brow, obviously trying not to laugh.
She gave him a nod. “Lots of ‘em. And I don’t know about you, but I’d like to keep all my pieces unhacked please and thank you.”
“Nobody’s losing limbs,” Pax chuckled, pulling her attention from the guys in the backseat. He gave her a gentle smile as his hand slid over the center divider to hold hers. “We’ve kept you out late enough considering what time the garage opens tomorrow. What about Friday night?”
“I don’t know…” she hesitated. There were a lot of reasons for her to just simply say no, but the word refused to come out.
Their date tonight had gone surprisingly well; better than any other date she’d ever had in her limited dating history. The guys were funny, nice, ridiculously good looking, employed, notregistered as a sex offenders,andthey were interested in her. All of them.
More importantly, she liked them back. All of them.
Individually they checked off all her boxes of what she was looking for in a man. Combined, they blew even her wildest dreams out of the water—and she had some pretty wild dreams. The books she read had planted some dirty ideas in her head, particularly the reverse-harem collection she’d been growing over the last few years, and the possibility of living out her greatest fantasy was more tempting than she could handle. Add in the protective vibe they surrounded her with, she was done for. They made her feeltreasured. She’d be a fool to walk away.
Right?
“We’ll make dinner,” Tanner offered as Pax pulled into her driveway.
The porch light was on, and the curtains were closed but Elena had no doubt her roomies had stayed up to spy. On the nights she had to take a rideshare home, they were usually standing ready and waiting for her on the front porch—generally with a baseball bat. You’d think it was overkill, but it’d come in handy once with a driver that wanted to ‘linger and chat’.
Were they just dropping her off here in the driveway or was someone going to walk her up? What about a goodnight kiss? Did her breath smell okay?
“I’m not sure.” She was too busy worrying about everything else right now.
“I’ll handle dessert.” Vinyl nudged Tanner out of the way where he was leaning between him and Elena. “What do you like?”
“Pie,” she answered automatically.
“Welovepie,” Tanner quipped before letting out a yelp. “I was talking aboutactualpie, asshole.”
“Ouch, fucker!”
She couldn’t keep from giggling as Tanner and Vinyl began to scuffle in the backseat.
“Guys!” Pax barked, his tone separating the two men where they’d been elbowing each other. When he looked back at Elena, he grimaced. “I promise they’re usually better behaved.”
“We’re not dogs.” Vinyl rolled his eyes, still pushing back and forth with his friend.
“Then act like it,” Pax shot back with a glare via the rearview mirror.
“I was just wondering what type of pie she liked,” Tanner mumbled.
Elena had to bite back a smile when he gave Vinyl the skunk-eye.
“You’re the one who made it dirty.”
“Because you’re always dirty.” Vinyl pinched the bridge of his nose and let out a long-suffering sigh.
“Still deserve an apology,” Tanner said with a sniff.
Vinyl rolled his eyes as he turned to look at his buddy. “I’m sorry I assumed you were talking about—”
“What kind do you like, Elena?” Pax interrupted before he could finish. “Apple, pecan, cherry? What about cobbler? Everyone likes cobbler, right?”
“I love it,” Elena snickered, more than a little amused by the interaction between her dates. It wasn’t the first time she had to hold in her laughter tonight. The men acted like a trio of brothers instead of simple friends. It was incrediblyentertaining. Watching them interact with each other was better than scrollingTikTok.
