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“I’ll be right back,” Haley said, not really sure if she would. She really didn’t feel like spending the night getting hounded over her virginity again.

“Uh-huh,” Beth said.

“Sure,” Amy said.

Haley didn’t bother arguing with them. She wasn’t in the mood. All she wanted to do was cuddle with Jason while he fed her hot wings. Was that too much to ask for?

She walked over to their table. Jason paused mid-order when he saw her. Frowning, he asked the waitress to come back in a few minutes.

“What’s wrong, my little grasshopper?” Jason asked, pulling her against his side.

“Girl’s night sucks,” Haley mumbled pathetically against his shoulder.

He chuckled, pressing a kiss to the top of her head.

“Do you want to join guy’s night?” he asked, sounding amused.

After a short pause, she asked, “Do I have to have a penis?”

“I think we can ignore that requirement tonight,” Jason said, chuckling.

“Will you buy me hot wings?” Haley mumbled, tracing circles on his knee.

He sighed heavily. “If I must.”

“You must,” she said, nodding solemnly.

“Anything else?”

She shook her head. “No, that will do,” she announced, leaning over to kiss his cheek.

“I’ll order you hot wings if you kiss me,” Mitch offered. “In fact, if you kiss my-Ow! Damn it!” he snapped, glaring at Brad.

Brad gestured towards Jason with his beer. “It saves time this way.”

Laughing and feeling better already, she gave Jason one last kiss before heading to the bathroom, where she would no doubt spend half the night just waiting in line.

Chapter 19

“Did you just growl?” Mitch asked, laughing.

Jason tore his eyes off his little grasshopper’s retreating ass and sent a scowl towards the man. “No.” But he had. Oh goddamn, he had. He’d imagined licking frosting off Haley in a hundred different ways since she’d offered.

Licking frosting off a woman was a simple fantasy, one he’d dreamed of doing for years but hadn’t found the right woman to share it with. There was no doubt that he could have asked any one of the countless women he’d slept with in the past to live out this fantasy with him before, but he’d never felt comfortable enough with any of them to ask.

With Haley...

There wasn’t anything that he couldn’t talk about with her. In fact, he’d mentioned this fantasy to her only last week. After she’d playfully teased him for a good hour about it, she swore she’d let him lick anything he wanted off her body. Anytime. Thirty seconds later, he’d been struggling to get his damn legs in his pants and mentally making a shopping list when she walked back into his bedroom wearing a smile and a whip cream bikini.

He may have tackled her to the ground and licked every damn creamy morsel off her before he threw his giggling grasshopper over his shoulder and carried her to the refrigerator, where he proceeded to put all the sundae toppings he had to good use.

God, he loved that woman.

“Excuse me? Do you remember me?” a beautiful woman with silky black hair asked, tearing him from his thoughts.

Jason looked at her and frowned. He didn’t have a clue who the hell she was, and judging by the appreciative look Mitch was sending her way, his friend wouldn’t mind getting to know her better.

“No, I’m sorry,” Jason said, taking a sip of his beer.