I look up at him, and he’s got that look. Holy smokes. “Um…”
“I’ll prove differently when we get home.”
As Margo said: Hubba hubba.
12
JESSE
“I’m about fed up with this negativity shit the media’s shoveling.”
Lucy sighs. “You know how it goes. It gets worse before it gets better.”
“It’s bullshit!” I shout, angry, furious that my best friends—my brothers—have to go through this. “No one talked bad about me when I fucked different chicks every night. Ethan and Linc aren’t doing anything nearly as bad as that.”
“Calm your shit,” Linc bellows, walking into the living room. “You’re going to wake the She Devil. If you do, I’m so outta here.”
Lucy snickers. “Big bad Lincoln “Knock Out Ramirez” is afraid of a toddler.”
“She isn’t just any toddler and you know it. She’s like a 16-year-old in a toddler’s body. She knows way too much already.”
“Pussy,” I tease.
“Hell yes,” Linc agrees.
I chuckle. “Really, it’s not that funny. Sometimes she kinda scares me too. When I imagine her as a teenager, I start to get chest pains. I think I’ll need Xanax to get through those years.”
“We kinda fucked up,” Ethan blurts out.
“Dude, we’ve done way worse shit than that. It’s the narrow-mindedness and the stereotype they’re labeling you with just because you prefer to fuck each other rather than chicks,” I seethe, so angry I want to hit something.
“I, for one, don’t get it. I think it’s hot,” Meggie announces with a sigh.
“Oh, God, yes,” Lucy agrees, nearly moaning.
I raise by brows. “You two think these two fucking is hot?”
“Beyond words,” Meggie tells me, fanning herself.
Linc and Ethan grin. Trace frowns.
Meggie edges over to Ethan. “Do you think I could watch sometime?”
Trace growls.
“You better quit before Styxzilla erupts,” Linc tells her.
Trace tugs Meggie to his side. “Woman, you try my patience.”
Meggie snickers and Lucy winks at her. I don’t think Kierah is the only She Devil around here.
“Jesse, you need to calm down. Sera called. Cage is all over this,” my Cupcake tells me. She slides an arm around my waist and hugs my side.
“I just think it’s bullshit.”
Ethan nods. “It is bullshit, but it’s the way it is. I’m fine about it. The media are vultures looking for easy prey, and we just happened to hand them a freebie today.”
“Major mood killer,” Linc adds.
