“Sorry for what?” I ask.
“God, you’re so vanilla, Eden.” Lexi looks at me up and down and giggles, but she sounds fake. “Look at you. All that time in the city, and you’re still a bumpkin.”
“Girl, what the hell—”
Cori holds up her hand and tells me to shut up with just a look.
“Do you two ever fuck? How does that work with a micro-penis?” Cori asks.
“Three pumps and he’s done,” Lexi says. “I don’t feel a thing. I have to get myself off with the vibrator while he sleeps on the floor. He doesn’t think he’s good enough to sleep beside me on the bed.”
“Well,” Cori says moments later. “That’s some story, Lex. I think my friends and I will stick to regular-sized dicks.”
Lexi stands tall, as if she’s proud of herself.
“It’s probably best if you guys look outside of Shadow Cove.” She looks at me with flared nostrils. “You should go back to Boston or Providence or wherever the hell you’ve been for the past decade. Keep it vanilla, ladies,” she says while only looking at me. “You can’t handle none of this. What I just described is for big girls only. Okay? Buh-bye,” she yells over her shoulder. She walks into the restaurant without a second look.
Once she goes through the doors, Selene and Cori both lose it and start to laugh so hard that they lose their breath, but I don’t find anything Lexi said funny.
“You know she’s lying, right?” Cori says between uncontrollable giggles.
“Tell me you’re insecure without telling me you’re insecure.” Selene bursts into laughter again.
I know Lexi is most likely lying to warn me away from him. She doesn’t know that I’m not interested. However, a part of me wonders if there might be a modicum of truth in her words.
Chapter 16
Rip
This must be the consequence of having a little dick.
Jack Brennan sits behind his desk like it’s a throne. He looks like a spoiled, smug little asshole who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He’s an incompetent fuck who only has a job because his family runs guns and they need us to clean their money.
Dax and I dealt with his brothers, and once we had an agreement, they threw him in the mix. I told Dax we should pull out of the deal. Nothing had been done yet, but dumping Jack on us was a red flag, but the potential payoff was too tempting.
A detailed background check was run on this asshole, and since he was clean, he became our point of contact.
So far, despite my misgivings, he hasn’t done anything that would cause us to break our partnership, but something about him irks me. I can’t put my finger on it, but I don’t like him, and the feeling is mutual.
“Why am I here?” I don’t bother to hide my irritation. I’ve been standing here for ten minutes, and he still won’t tell me why. “You got two minutes and I’m out.”
No one summons me. I work for Dax, but he’s never treated me like a gopher, and I’m not about to put up with it with this guy.
“Just making sure that all the accounts you set up are good and that the money adds up.”
I snort. The money is there. Word of mouth is how we get business, and we don’t get that by cheating our clients.
“I don’t set up accounts.” My voice is clipped. He knows this. Dax runs shit. I’m the face, and Preacher is the computer genius.
“You need to learn to relax, dude,” he says. He stares at the computer screen for far too long. I’d bet anything this guy is too stupid to understand what he’s looking at. “It all looks good,” he finally announces.
Idiot.
He rolls his chair away from his desk and stands.Short little fuck. He’s barely five feet five inches tall. He definitely has a Napoleon complex.
“I need a sit-down with Dax,” he says. “I have more business coming in.”
Everything that he just sputtered is a red flag. Why would he come to us about more business when his brothers are the ones who run things?
