I karate chop their forearms with my hands. “You two need to shut your traps before I shut them for you. Anyway, what’s this about the den?”
“Your brothers take their girls there.”
“THEY’RE KIDS!”
Both men snort.
“No, they’re not.”
“They’re hockey players,” Zach points out.
I groan. “Fucking hockey players. What is it about you morons that girls love?”
Pecan pouts. “Youlove us.”
“Yeah, but I loved you before hockey and I have no interest in seeing more of your dick than I already?—”
“How have you seen his dick?! His ass is one thing, but his dick?!”
Lex turns up before I have to answer Zach’s outraged question.
“Actually, I want to know why too.” Lex taps her pen onto the order pad. “How have you seen Pecan’s dick, Denny?”
“Hello?! He’s an exhibitionist.”
Mason snickers. “You don’t say.”
“That’s why we keep catching you and Hailey in the locker room, huh?” Joker flings his arms behind the booth and spreads out. “I knew you were a kinky fucker.”
“Exhibitionism is perfectly normal!” Pecan retorts, completely unflustered.
“It might be when you’re four,” I say dryly.
Pecan rubs his middle finger along his nose with a wink then rattles off a massive order. As does the rest of the team. For myself, I grab avocado toast because I’m not that hungryandI have yet another day in the library before classes in the afternoon to nourish.
Gregg bats his lashes at Lex. “If you make my coffee the way I like, I’ll propose.”
While the rest of the team heckles him, she rolls her eyes. “I’ll make sure it’s extra shitty today then.”
Ah, Gregg and his propensity to propose for the dumbest of reasons.
Lex and food took some of the attention off us, but when she disappears, we’re back front and center.
I definitely feel bad for the fish at the aquarium. Unfortunately, the gaping lulls me into a false sense of security.
Alec leans into the table once we’re alone again, his fist balled as he bangs it on the surface. “I don’t believe that you didn’t film the videoafter I repeatedly asked you to. I told you to kiss her and film it, not—” Alec looks me up and down and I get the picture that I don’t measure up to his oh, so high standards. “Whatever this is.”
Zach’s tension increases exponentially. I’m almost relieved that Lex appears with coffee mugs and a pot of coffee as it dispels the testosterone suddenly flooding the air.
Honestly, I grew up with this nonsense and I’m still coughing and choking on it.
Only when Lex disappears again does Pecan insert, “What the fuck’s it gotta do with you, cap, where Zach sticks his tongue?”
Mirroring his captain, Zach looms over the table. “The man asked you a question.”
Alec’s jaw tightens. “Why didn’t you take the video?”
“Because I told you I wouldn’t! I’m not leveraging my relationship with Denver for your bullshit idea of a marketing campaign.”
