“I saw that.At the proposal.”Leighton tears off a little cotton candy from Ellis and pops it in her mouth, smiling at Ellis.
“For sure.”Penelope glances around.“It looked like you two were in love.”
I laugh and Tanner squirms in my arms, so I quickly calm down and run my hand down his back.“Maybe I should go into acting.”
There’s no way I’m going to admit to them that being proposed to by Easton wasn’t horrible.But I think it’s just because we have a deeper friendship now than before we embarked on this crazy plan.Easton says we’re a team, and it’s nice to have someone in the trenches with you.It’s not something I’m accustomed to.
“I have a question.”Leighton interrupts my thoughts.“How did you two meet the first time?”
I laugh again but quickly stop so Tanner doesn’t wake up.He’s out way past his bedtime tonight.
“Did he pick you up at a club?”Callie asks.
I shake my head.
“You don’t seem like the type to leave a note on the sign,” Penelope says.
“No.I’m not.”
“He’s bold.Did he just walk up to you and ask you to come back to his place?”Leighton raises an eyebrow.
“I got into his Uber.”I feel my cheeks warm and my lips tip up as I remember that moment.
Had I just gotten out like I should have, I wouldn’t be here.
“And?”Callie lets Ellis down and watches her go over to Monroe and Hazel.They take her by the hand, and the three of them sit in a circle.
“I told him to get out.He told me it was his ride, but he’s a sharer.”
“Of course he did.”Callie eyes the other women.
“I’m surprised he didn’t say something about taking you to his place,” Leighton says.
“Oh, he did… let me think of his exact words.”I recall the night and what made me go home with him.“He asked me where I was going.When I told him, he said he’d join me.”
They all shake their heads in a somewhat exasperated way, but I’ve always loved Easton’s cocky side.
“I said ‘You don’t even know me,’ and he responded with ‘Not yet.’”
They all groan, but that was the moment he intrigued me.It also didn’t hurt that he was so good-looking and I had just come from a dinner with my mom.I liked his interest.
I don’t mention how his eyes dropped briefly to my mouth… then back up, and he said,“Give me ten minutes.”
“So you just went out with him?”Penelope asks.
“I told him he could join me at the bar I was going to, but he had to buy me a drink and he said, ‘Already planned to.’”
“So damn cocky that guy.”Callie shakes her head.
I liked the way Easton knew what he wanted, and there were no games.There were no mixed signals.No hidden agenda.That night and every call after from him, I knew what I was getting, and it’s the reason I kept coming back.He was upfront and easy.
“He took me for a drink or two and asked me back to his place after.The next morning, he asked me for my number.I assumed he’d never use it.I knew guys like him.”
“So you knew he was a Colt?”Leighton asks.
I shake my head.“I’m not really a sports girl, but I figured it out when I left the next morning and saw the sign on the security gate.”
“That’s probably why you’re in that seat right now.”Callie points toward me.
