“Oh, boy. Do you have a Dolly Parton fetish or a cowgirl fetish?” Riley asked breathlessly.
“Yes,” he said, dragging his teeth over her exposed flesh.
“Wait. Why aren’t you being overly protective grumpy guy right now and kicking people out of the house?”
“Because then I couldn’t be here telling you how I want to bite my way over every inch of your perfect body.”
Someone tapped Riley on the shoulder. It was Sesame as Glitter Dolly. “Sorry to interrupt, but we have a problem.”
“I didn’t pick my costume,” Riley said, trying to pry Nick’s lips off her neck.
“Not that.This!”Sesame pointed at the scene in front of them.
“Hold that thought,” Riley said to Nick and stepped out of his grasp.
“As if I could think about anything but you and unzipping that jumpsuit,” he said wolfishly.
His eyes looked a little glassy.
“Did my mom bring edibles to this party?” Riley wondered out loud.
“It wasn’t your mom, and it’s not edibles,” Sesame said.
Jasmine danced over to them in a vinyl catsuit.
“Where did you get the costume?” Riley asked.
“I keep a spare in my purse.”
A guy dressed as a jack-o’-lantern danced up on her. Jasmine put her palm to his oversized pumpkin head and shoved him back. “Not now, Pumpkin Boy.”
The pumpkin stumbled backward into the snack table.
“Guys, I don’t know what’s going on, but there are boners everywhere,” Jasmine said.
“What do you mean everywhere?” Riley scoffed, shoving the synthetic blond curls out of her eyes. “Oh.Oh.No, no, no, no.”
Her friend was right. It looked like a high school make-out party after everyone had shared a bottle of Mad Dog.
A ghost with a haunted erection under its sheet was whispering sweet nothings into the ear of Velma fromScooby-Doo. Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf were dirty dancing with a pair of skeletons and a vampire. Darth Vader had no need for a light saber considering what was standing up in his pants. Riley’s parents were making out like about-to-be-grounded teenagers on the cupcake table.
Riley spied Josie on Brian’s lap. They were attached at the mouth when they disappeared toward the back of the house.
Gabe was on bended knee in the middle of the foyer, kissing his way up Wander’s arm as she blushed. Riley refused to look below her spiritual guide’s belt.
“That’s what I was trying to tell you. I think we’ve been HardMaxed,” Sesame said.
“Attention, everyone!”
Riley turned with the rest of the crowd at Nick’s voice coming from the DJ’s speakers.
“Ohhhhh noooooo,” she moaned.
“I just want everyone to know that Riley Thorn is the sexiest woman in the world,” he said, breathing heavily into the microphone. “You turn me on every day in every way.”
“Oh, God,” she groaned.
“Aww, how poetic,” Sesame said.
