“I don’t think I’ve ever played this,” Loralei said.
“What?” Gabe chuckled. “Really?”
It was a little surprising to hear, if I were being honest.
“Really,” she responded flatly.
“Rules are simple,” Lucas said. “Each person makes the statement, ‘Never have I ever…’ If anyone has done the action, they drink. You can say stuff you have done; the whole point is to drink and loosen up, after all. And heads up…we aren’t usually PG-13.”
“Sounds…simple enough,” Loralei said with what I couldn’t help but feel like was a forced smile.
Lucas started the game, and one crude statement after the next, we all sipped our drinks through snickers and chuckles.
When Loralei’s turn arose, she hesitated for a moment. “Never have I ever…had a one-night stand.”
Everyone drank.
Wes snorted. “Child’s play.” His comment earned a coy grin from her, making the bile rise in my throat.
“There’s Wes with that big dick energy,” Gabe said with a laugh.
“You can only have big dick energy if you can back it up,” Lucas quipped with a good-natured grin, earning a middle finger from Wes.
I was now more than a few drinks in, and thanks to those drinks, I was feeling a little feisty and not thinking all that clearly. The thoughts were swirling in my head as I looked between Wes and Loralei, and a slow smirk curled on my lips.He never said our game of sabotage was over.
“Oh, he backs it upevery time,” I said casually.
All eyes turned to me.
“How the hell wouldyouknow that?” Callie giggled.
“Right?” Lucas snorted before tipping his beer back.
Wes stared at me with a curious expression as he sipped his drink.
“I would know since Wes and I were fucking for the last two years.”
At my words, both Lucas and Wes leaned forward, spraying the beer they’d just sipped across the table as they coughed. The other’s eyes went wide, looking between me and Wes, save for my brothers, who were tensing their jaws and glowering in his direction.
“Youwhat?” Gabe gasped.
“Holy shit,” Callie snickered in surprise.
Lucas wiped his mouth with the back of his hand as he stared at Wes. “Dude?”
“No way,” Gabe said with a chuckle. “You twohateeach other.”
Even Blake cracked a smile. “You were hate fucking?”
Wes’s eyes darted around before they landed on me; I leaned back in my chair and casually sipped my drink, momentarily unfazed by his shock. Suddenly, he fell into a fit of laughter, like he didn’t know what else to do. Still laughing, he stood from his seat and walked off, pushing through the door and disappearing outside.
Everyone turned towards me. My eyes were now locked intently on the seat Wes had just abandoned, refusing to meet any of their gazes.
Fuck. I shouldn’t have done that.
“Well, uh…” Lucas cleared his throat. “I’m gonna go grab another round.” Gabe and Blake stood to go with him.
“I could go for a game of pool,” Callie said. “Loralei, care to join?”
