“I mean it.”
I’d billeted with the Bukowskis when I’d been a Montreal teen who’d signed in Winnipeg. For years, they’d become as close to me as blood… and Kow had evolved into my best friend.
The dipshit.
Considering Gracie’s hate affair with her younger sibling, that made for awkward clashes, but fuck if I wasn’t here for this one.
I sidled around the counter and looped my arms around her waist. She huffed when she felt my erection digging into her ass but kept quiet when I didn’t actively make a nuisance out of myself.
“Why’s he changing your bedroom anyway? I’d have thought Hanna would have something to say about that.” The two got along better now, and Hanna rarely let her sons give Gracie shit.
“She did, but apparently it’s Dad who agreed because it’s the smallest bedroom. So I’m going to make sure that I hide all Mom’s pierogis so he can’t have any.” She peered at me over her shoulder. “We’re about to become Gremlins.”
Snickering, I pressed a kiss to her cheek. “Gremlins who fuck?”
“Loudly, remember? Just to makeeveryoneuncomfortable.”
I whistled. “Tabarnak, femme. You’re my hero.”
TEN
TEXT CHAT
Star: I need your help
Aoife: Mine?
Star: We have to work on our mutual menfolk
Aoife: Gladly
Aoife: To what end?
Star: Destruction
Aoife:
Aoife: What are we destroying?
Star: AI
Aoife: Huh?
Aoife: Think the horse’s bolted, no?
Star: If Benjamim tells me one more time that a single prompt uses a bottle of drinking water in a world that only has water because comets landed on earth back in the day and that our source is finite, I’ll scream
Star: So, we either destroy AI or I tell my kid I can’t fix this
Aoife: Right, okay, what’s the plan?
Star: You get onto Finn. Hell, I’ll communicate with the others too. We all need to nag our respective men. If we do that, then they’ll figure something out
Star: I’ll come up with a way to make Shay look good. You know they’re obsessed with the White House.
Aoife: True, if you make it look like eradicating AI will save human jobs then that’s bound to work. Especially if Shay can spearhead a campaign or something
Aoife: Benji’s upset, huh?
