“Ava was telling me she saw you and Sage last night.”
“Oh yeah, that guy you were with wasn’t mention worthy.Boring.”
Ava sits up in her chair, crosses her long legs in her shorts, folds her hands in her lap, and gives me a charming smile.Here we go, I see the little devil perching up on her shoulder.Chris smiles back at her with an equally charming smile, getting a bottle of water from the fridge.His phone rings, and he walks into the living room to take it.
“My date was not boring.He was a little reserved at first.He was starting to warm up when Chris and Old Spice showed up.She was in a real good mood last night when she saw my date and tagged along with us upstairs to the club.”
“That must have been fun.”
“It wasn’t.My date didn’t get interesting till way after-hours when he took me home and ended the drought.I was way beyond parched and dry.”
I sit back and smile at her.“You little slut.”
“Yes, I am and proud of it.”She holds her head up high.“I gave him what keeps them coming back for more.”
Coming out of the living room Chris asks, “Keeps who coming back?”
“I had sex last night,” Ava answers with a straight face and a flick of her hair.
“You did what?”Chris says, taking a swig of his water, standing next to me.
“You heard me.”
“You slept with the jerk-off?”
“There was no sleeping involved, and yes, he did jerk me off.”
Oh.My.God.I can’t believe she said that to my brother.They’re silently staring at each other.It’s like a competition of wills to see who’s going to look away first.Will it be Ava the fiery, blue-eyed temptress or Chris the brown-eyed, dashing stallion?With a nod of the head, we have a winner.
“I’m out.Cat, Imma see you later.”
Ding ding ding, Ava’s the winner.
“You just got here,” I say to his back as he’s leaving.
“I have things to do.”
He’s out the door without another look or word to Ava.
“What’s his problem?”Ava says innocently.
“You are.Tell me you didn’t sleep with that guy because of Chris.”
“Well, he didn’t want me.Someone did.It was a little pick-me-up I will never repeat again.Happy?”
“I hope you used protection during your pick-me-up jerk-off session.You don’t want to end up like this with a guy you don’t seem interested in out of bed.”
“God, yes.I’m not stupid—sorry, I didn’t mean it like that.”She looks at me apologetically.“No harm no foul?”she says.
“I know.No harm no foul.How is it you’re my love guru but you can’t guru yourself with Chris?”
“I don’t know?Maybe you should be my guru, your love life is doing pretty good these days.”
“Have you met me?”I wave my hand in her face.“With my record I’m in no shape to be a guru for myself or anyone.As soon as I pop this kid out, we are going to kick Chris’s ass for not seeing how great you two would be together.You would be the perfect ying to his yang.”
“Or is it yang to his ying?”
“Whatever, I think you two would balance each other out.Your fiery temper and his cool, level-headed thinking.”
