"Love you too, baby sister."
The phone disconnects.
Huh.Looks like I won't have to kidnap my curvy little author after all.She's already here.The fact that she didn't tell me doesn't sit well with me, but I intend to get to the bottom of it first thing in the morning.If she's still worried that I'm a crazy man who spends all day locked in his mama's basement playing video games and knitting for kittens, she won't be for long.
I hope she's ready for me, because I'm not letting her leave until she knows exactly what it feels like to be loved hard by a real cowboy.
ChapterThree
CASSIA
"Wow, this place is fancy," I mumble to myself as I step into the resort restaurant.The setting sun sends bright rays of light filtering in through large windows at the front of the room.A massive live edge wood bar wraps around the back of the room, expensive bottles of alcohol neatly displayed on wooden shelves behind it.Combined with the vintage-style lighting hanging from above and the log walls, the entire restaurant exudes peace and relaxation…exactly like the rest of the resort.I should have suggested this place way before now.
"Back here!"Paige says.Her hand shoots into the air to wave even though there's no way I'd miss her crazy blonde curls.She and the girls are tucked into a booth in the back corner.They're the only group of all women here.
I giggle and head toward them.I'm not sure if everyone else had a productive day, but they're all smiles.Probably because they don't have a grumpy cowboy giving them dirty sex dreams.
"Sorry I'm late.I got lost."I scrunch my nose up."Did you know this place has two gyms?It's vacation.Who needs one gym, let alone two?"
"I ordered you a shot," Emmy says, smiling at me when I slip into the empty seat on the bench beside her.
"A shot?"I quirk a brow, looking skeptically at the tiny glass of clear liquid in front of me.Last time I had shots, I didn't even make it to three before I ended up on the floor.I'm not very graceful."Of what?"
"Liquid courage," Emmy mutters, making Mina laugh."We're talking about sex."
Emmy sits with her legs crossed at an awkward angle, one hip higher than the other.She avoids my gaze, but her cheeks are pink, and I wonder if we should slow her down.If she keeps knocking back shots, who knows what else we'll find out about her?
Yesterday, she confessed that she's a virgin like me and Clover.Paige and I caught her right after she had an awkward encounter with the maintenance guy who came to fix something in her cabin.Apparently, she talked him into helping her work out the mechanics of a sexy scene.Though, I doubt it took much convincing to get him to agree.Emmy is beautiful.Any man would be lucky to have her.Like me, Emmy tends to avoid men though.
But I'm pretty sure she has a thing for the maintenance man.
She slides the shot glass toward me and turns her attention to Paige.
"Not yet we're not."Mina waggles her brows suggestively, making everyone laugh."All I said was I want the inside scoop on how the four of you"—she points to me, Emmy, Clover, and Zoey—"write dirty hot sex when you still have your V-Cards."
"I've wondered that as well," Paige says."I mean, I've never been to medieval England, but I have been to England and seen medieval artifacts at museums, so that's kinda close."
I flap a hand in the air, trying to end this conversation quickly.I don't want to talk about sex things when I'm being haunted every night by an annoyingly hot cowboy.Seriously.Why does he have to be all sexy and grumpy?The jerk."I have a rose and Javier.And porn."
"Not the rose," Paige groans, making Emmy laugh hysterically.
"The rose?"Clover looks between the three of us in question.
"We almost had to stage an intervention over the rose," Emmy says.
"Seriously, she went missing for days.I was ready to call the police," Paige says.Then she laughs."When we finally got her back online and she told us where she'd been, well, let's just say, I ordered a rose for myself that afternoon."
"It was for research purposes," I sniff.It's the truth.I was researching how many orgasms you can have before you can't take anymore.Turns out…not very many with that thing.It's like magic.
"Who is Javier?"Zoey asks.
"Oh, uh, he's my battery-operated boyfriend."I blush, darting a quick glance around to make sure no one can hear me."I thought he needed a name."
"Do you scream it?"Clover asks, making everyone laugh.
"I named mine Paul," Paige says.
"Mine is justOh God, Oh God," Mina says.
