“I’m also a very persuasive guy.”
“I’ll get you back for that,” Red warned as she pointed at the bed and made her way around it to go to the bathroom.
“I’m counting on it.”
With a light laugh, she closed herself into the bathroom. It was good that, after the day she had endured, she was feeling better. Iwasa nice guy.
Chapter 31: Mia
After I’d cleaned up in the bathroom and calmed down, because Ash had just given me the best orgasms of my life and my knees were still weak, I needed a moment. I looked like I’d just had the best orgasm of my life, too, I thought wryly as I tried to fix myself up so I could walk into the kitchen and pretend I hadn’t just screamed his name out like the hussy they thought I was.
What a crazy, insane day. I always thought being friends with the Devils would be interesting, but this was something else. I had gone from being genuinely scared this morning to screaming in ecstasy a few hours later.
My encounter with Onyx was still swirling around in my mind, and I had so many questions that I wanted to ask. Mind-blowing orgasms aside, I needed answers, and these men were the ticket to finding out more about how much the older Santo shared with them.
With a loose braid, my face washed, and Ash’s shirt and my jeans on, I headed out to face the taunting I would no doubt receive. Ash was already downstairs, as I thought he would be. He was trying not to be too smug at getting me to swear, but he was a really bad actor.
In the kitchen, the three of them were talking to their teammates as Quinn and Ava prepared food, while some of the other team made their own. I watched Quinn. It must have been so hard for her to see and hear Gray cry like that. I hoped she was closer to some form of closure. However, you wouldn’t know it as she reigned over the kitchen like a queen. The players asked her questions constantly, and she would be in amongst their food prep, or she was at the stove, checking temperatures. And if Quinn was busy, they asked Ava, who being Ava, jumped right in to assist.
They may be a house of big, aggressive football stars, but anyone watching it was clear these boys needed a woman to guide them.
Tilting my head, I thought about it. No, not a woman, just a person with confidence. Quinn knew what she was doing, and it was obvious she had the certainty in her skill set to make sure the guys also knew what they were doing.
Deciding that hanging back had never been my style, I walked into the kitchen and looked around at the bustle.
“Can I help?” I asked as I tried to determine what they were even making.
Quinn looked up at me and smiled. “Absolutely,” she confirmed. “Can you slice and dice?”
Could I? “Yes, but I’m slow.”
“There’s no rush,” Quinn assured me as she pointed at a chopping board and some vegetables on it.
Ava, who had been at the stove with a player, tasting his food, made her way over to me. Wordlessly she handed me a knife, not the one I had been going for, and stood alongside me.
“Want me to show you how?” Her light conversational tone made me chuckle self-consciously. She had totally heard me in the bedroom.
“Please.”
I watched for a few moments, and then I was mimicking her as I did carrots. Ava reached over and stole one of my carrot sticks, and I slapped her hand as she giggled.
“All okay with you?” she asked me casually. Her look was knowing, and I shook my head at her inability to be an adult.
“Yes, Ava. I am quite well,” I said with an answering grin.
“It sounded like you were.”
“Shut up,” I mumbled as I ate a carrot stick, but we were both grinning.
Ava reached for another stick, but a hand slapped hers away. Gray stood behind us.
“Prep the food to eat the food later,” he scolded. “Quit yammering and work.”
I was about to scold him for doing nothing when I saw him start to work with whatever else Quinn was feeding us tonight.
“I forgot he cooked,” I said to Ava as I returned to my carrots. When the carrots were done, Quinn passed me sweet potato, asking for it to be small bite-sized chunks. I had no idea what that meant, but thankfully Ava did, and we shared the task between us.
As we were seated at the table later, with stir-fried chicken and veggies with rice noodles, I was unsure how my carrot sticks and bite-sized chunks of potato had helped create the wonderfully light tasty dish.
