“You know the phone can block those, too, right? Here, give me the—” Aurora reaches for the phone in Lexi’s hand, but she swats her little sister away, dropping the phone into the front pocket on her overalls, clasping her fingers together overtop of it and scowling up at her.
Lucky phone. If I could live nestled between her breasts, I would.
Or her thighs. Yeah, definitely those.
“I don’t need your help wiping my ass, thank you,” Lexi bites out.
“Just every other aspect of your life then?” Rory’s sharp words don’t come out as harsh as they could, her eyes are too soft for that.
Just the same, I decide to jump in before one of them draws blood.
“We were just discussing the overwhelming support from the townsfolk about the new menu,” I say, biting back my smirk.
Lexi swivels her head up at me. “Townsfolk? There you go patronizing us again.”
“What am I supposed to call them? Is that not an accurate name?”
Her eyes narrow at me with enough heat to power half the menu I’m trying to get the green light on. When she speaks, it’s scathing. “It’s the way you said it.”
“My accent? Is that what’s got you all bunched up beneath those jeans? Can’t help it,bella. Born and raised in the city. Brooklyn, baby!” Two fingers come to my mouth for a quick kiss, then head for the sky.
She rolls her eyes and crosses her legs. “Not your accent, the way you sneered when you said it.”
Zero fucks given, Rory interrupts with a tone that could peel the wallpaper in my grandmother’s upstate cabin. “Clearly things are going great here, I don’t know why I bothered coming by.”
“Oh shush. You’re the one that stuck him on me.” Lexi flails a hand, fluttering it at me like I’m a pest she can’t bother looking at.
Probably because her nipples get stiff when she does.
“Are we still on about that then?” Rory takes a seat in the open chair next to her sister, crossing one pantsuited leg over the other. Into mediator mode in a flash, quicker than Charlie could start a grease fire.
“Just for another three months,” Lexi grits out through her teeth. “Then he’s back to the rat-infested gutters you both called home.”
“Hey!” Aurora and I bark out in unison.
“What did the city ever do to you?” I ask.
“If you visited, you’d get it, Alexis.” Aurora folds her arms over one another and settles back in her chair. “And Wilder lives here now, so can you stop trying to make it harder on him?”
“Oh, she’s made itrealhard, but it’s okay, that’s how I like it.”
Lexi squeals when I shoot her a wink, meanwhile her sister just throws her head back and laughs.
“Someone who drives you even crazier than I do. He deserves a raise. Text me your birthday, Wilder, I owe you something nice.”
Lexi’s brows slide down her face. “You’re leaving already?”
“Looks like you’ve got everything under control, right?”
“Okay, I’m sorry I was a bitch, stay for a minute.”
“You think I don’t know your personality by now? I love when you’re a bitch. It’s your love language, Lex. If you don’t like someone, you don’t give them the time of day. When you go full see you next Tuesday? Mmhmm. That’s when it counts.”
Interesting.
So is the subtle wink Aurora throws at me when Lexi is too busy rolling her eyes to notice.
Lexi’s shoulders slump as she leans forward in her chair, head in her hands. Aurora glides behind her and massages her shoulders.
