“The night you guys were rescued, I believe it was.” She answers.
“That explains his attitude lately. He mentioned the girl of his dreams sneaking out of his bed in the middle of the night…Oh, you sly little girl.” Aly pretends to punch her in the arm, and Molly’s face turns so red it matches her hair.
“I can’t risk his safety if Travis comes looking for me.”
“Babe, we can’t change your mind, but just know that the Devil Dogs will protect what is theirs. If David claims you, you are part of our family now. Just like Nyx…and well, despite Kyra not wanting to be claimed by Cal yet, she is part of the family too.” Alyra states so matter-of-factly that I want to sink into the hot tub, if it wouldn’t cook me from the inside out.
“Well, duh, I claimed her and my men claimed me, therefore by proxy she has their protections too.” Nyx tries to deflect a little after noticing my face.
For a little while longer, we sit in the hot tub and just gossip about life, the guys, and anything and everything you can thinkof. My eyes start to drift closed, my blinks taking longer and longer to perform. Nyx notices I am about to fall into the hot tub, and she rounds up everyone, and we head back into the house to make a nest on the living room floor, and they pick a movie to put on. I am not even sure what movie they decide on before my eyes fall closed and I am asleep.
CHAPTER 22
CALLUM
As soon as Nyx told Graham and Demitri that she was heading back to the guest house for a girls’ night with Kyra, Molly, and Aly, Graham pulled his phone out and started typing like a madman. As soon as he put his phone down, mine pinged with a notification.
Graham: The girls are going to be back at the guest house for a girls night. Who wants to come over for beer and poker?
Me: I am already here so I guess I’m in lol
David: What girls? Is Molly there?
Dee: Yes, Molly is here David.
Demitri laughs as he sends his response. David really just needs to sit Molly down and tell her how he is feeling, but lord knows that he won’t. He will just continue to pine over her from a distance, and this poker game just gave him the perfect reason to be around her.
Jason: I’ll come grab you David in like 15. Then we will be over. See you soon
I get up from the couch where Graham and Dee are hanging out with a college football game on and head up to my room for a moment. The sun has already set, and I can stand here in the darkness to watch the guest house without Kyra being able to see me. The group of girls is sitting around the kitchen island, drinking wine from glasses, and snacking on pizza.
Losing track of time watching the girls just be at peace for the first time in forever, I am startled back to the present when I hear Jason and David yell up the stairs.
“Yo, Baby Hutch!” Jason calls out to me. “Stop being a creep, we all know what you're doing.”
The four of them start to laugh like they all aren’t obsessed with one of the women in that house out back. I snag a hoodie out of the closet before heading back downstairs to join them.
We have finished off the case of beer that we had and have switched over to whiskey. The amber liquid swirls gently in the glass in my hand while I wait for the guys to decide if they are calling or raising my bet. I have a full house, just waiting to take these assholes down…maybe.
At that moment, I hear the back yard erupt into fits of girlish giggles, and we all freeze. The card game is abandoned as they all stare towards the sliding glass door. Fuck, Aly is helping Molly across the snow-covered porch, and they are all in adorable little robes.
Sunflower, what are you girls up to?
“Oh shit,” Dee exclaims. “I forgot Nyx got me to turn up the hot tub for them.”
Fuck. The four of them in bikinis with their predators sitting in here. Nursing whiskey, but we are all definitely buzzed.
Catching a glimpse of my girl as she strips out of the hot pink robe. It’s January, so her skin no longer carries the glow from summer. But that mermaid bikini will live in my mental spank bank permanently.
“If we go up to my room, they can’t see us, but we have a perfect view down to the hot tub.” The words are out of my mouth before I even have a moment to think about what I said.
Yes, they will be able to watch Kyra, but they each have their own girl in that tub. Even if they won’t admit it to themselves or us.
“Ariel will kill me,” Jason speaks under his breath.
Shit, I forgot, he was still with that girl.
“What she doesn’t know won’t hurt her. Or you, for that matter.” David nudges Jason with his shoulder.
