“Can I marry you?”Guy Number Three smiled, his deep dimple flashing at Katy.
Lola glanced at her friend and saw Katy’s trademark smirk.“Do you know whatparonomasiameans?”
“I have the internet.”He held up his phone.
Katy glanced at Lola.“You’ve been over here for ten minutes talking tothem?”
Lola nodded.“Guilty.”
Katy looked back at the guys.Their eyes bounced from Maddie, to Lola, to Katy, and then back again.
“They’re hot,” Maddie said without an ounce of embarrassment.
“Theyarehot.”Rather than indicating any attraction to them, the tone of Katy’s voice made it sound like they were a clue to a mystery she was trying to solve.She pointed at Guy Number Four.“What’s your name?”
“Kian.”
“That’s Wyatt, Rafe, and Roan.”Lola pointed at each of them.
“You don’t say?”Katy asked, her voice taking on the mischievous purr it did anytime she was about to make a point.
“Dammit,” Lola bit out through clenched teeth at the same time Katy spoke.
“And you?”She pointed at Guy Number Three with the dimple.
Please be a Keith, or Bob, or—
“Drystan, and I’m still waiting for my answer.”
Katy held up a finger.“Yeah, be right with you.”She turned to Lola, but Lola refused to look at her best friend.
“Wyatt.”Katy held up a finger in front of her face.“Rafe.”Another finger joined the first.“Roan.”A third finger.“Kian.”A fourth.“Aaaaand Drystan.Do you see a theme, here Lo-lo?”
“They all have hot-as-hell names?”Maddie said, nearly making Lola jump because she’d forgotten she was there.
“Exactly.”Katy pointed at their other BFF.“Hot-as-hell names.You know who else has hot-as-hell names?”
“Katy Dire.”Lola turned and glared at her.“I will make you unable to boob-feed for the rest of your life if you say another word.”
“How have we never been here before?”Lola heard a deep voice that she was pretty sure was Wyatt’s.
“Because we didn’t know how hot the waitresses were,” another voice offered.
“They’d be hotter with tattoos.”That voice was Roan’s.Lola knew it because the statement was uttered without any inflection or feeling, as if he was simply pointing out a cloud in the sky.
“I’ll tell you who has names like that.Book boy—” Lola shoved her order pad so hard into Katy’s stomach that it knocked the wind from her lungs, and a gasp of air whistled out.
“Oh, snap.”Lola pasted on a smile and a fake cheery voice.“I think my friend here is getting sick.I better help her to the back.Your pizzas will be right out.Thank you and have a great day.”
Katy tried to suck in air.For a second, Lola wondered if maybe she’d gotten a little carried away.But then she remembered her BFF was about to reveal her obsession with paranormal-romance novels.And she was about to tell those guys that all their names sounded like the names of the characters in the books she read.Now that she thought about it, their names were kind of hilarious.Maybe later, if Katy didn’t kill her, they could laugh about it.The glare Katy shot her as she helped her to the back made Lola think it would be a few days— Maybe a few weeks— before that would happen.
For the rest of their shift, Katy gave Lola the stink eye and only spoke to her if she absolutely had to.Lola was definitely going to have to watch her back, or her front, for the foreseeable future.
Chapter 3
Out-Of-Work Porn Star.
“One little change in your life is all it takes for you to question your sanity.Of course, if no one else but you can see the change, your question is probably justified.”~Lola
