fucking me against the door jamb,” Anna snaps her head up in surprise with her eyes bulging out. “What? Are you fucking kidding me right now?! Tell me more you slut!”
Laughing out loud, I try to not let it be too obvious I have dirty details but that is quickly fading.
“There’s nothing really to tell. He came on to me...a lot. I mean a whole lot. Phew, I’m still warm from it.” Anna has scooted to the end of her chair, zoned in on my story.
“It was one of those kisses that you read about in your mother’s romance novels. The one where the hunky alpha male sweeps you up into his arms and presses you firmly against the wall and kisses you so roughly, the breath you didn’t even realize you were holding, is let out then you know without a shadow of a doubt everything is alright in the world.” Anna is staring with a stargazed look in her eyes and it makes me blush. “That sounds so amazing. I want a kiss like that. No, I need a kiss like that. From both of the Falcon brothers. Fuck, we need help.” Anna chuckles softly before grabbing a pastry out from beneath the display case and taking a huge bite out of it.
“Umm, who’s going to pay for that?” I ask in mock shock.
“Put it on my tab,” Anna says with a wink. “It was either this or a cold shower. A cold shower might actually be more useful right now.” Anna smiles brightly which is contagious because I start smiling too.
“You’re such a hot mess,” I say gently nudging her.
“Takes one to know one. We should get tramp stamps that say “hot mess” on our lower backs, you know just to give us the proper label.” Anna retorts, which only makes me laugh. That would be something she would do during one of her drunken adventures. She reaches over into her bag and pulling out a six pack of Corona and handing one to me. “But instead, I picked us up a little emotion killer.”
Looking at her wide-eyed, I shake my head. “We aren’t licensed for these types of beverages.” I say in a stern tone before popping the cap and taking a long swig of the amber liquid. It slightly burns and tastes horrible but I don’t care. Our grandmother used to say beer tasted like horse piss and she was right. This shit is nasty. But, we have limited resources until we get back home and get into the good stuff.
“So what do we do about these men in our lives now? We have got to remain focused on looking for Jayde and can’t stray away from that,” Anna says while finishing up her pastry. She is right. Our focus has to be on Jayde and nothing else can deter that focus.
“You’re absolutely right. Which is why we aren’t going to let these men distract us from finding Jayde,” I say with a finality in my voice. We make a silent pact that from that point forward, nothing is going to stop us from finding our sister and best friend. Nothing. Not even hunky alpha males with movie star good looks.
Chapter 20
Anna
The silent pact we exchange without saying the words is overwhelming. Ronan and Ryder are gorgeous and apparently Leo was too. To think about it brought up too many feelings. These guys were going to royally corrupt us from head to toe and there wasn’t a damn thing we could do about it.
“Do we actually believe that in our heart of hearts we can turn down those gorgeous guys?” I ask skeptically.
“Ugh, I wish. At this rate, we’ll both be knocked up before the next full moon.” At Sarah’s words, I choke on the remainder of my pastry and almost toss it back up.
“Damn, don’t talk like that. I don’t even want to think about kids right now.” I say, wiping my mouth from almost choking. Kids would be such a horrible idea right now. It’s not like I don’t want kids, just not right now. My phone buzzes from my purse and I reach over to retrieve it. “It’s Zac. He stopped by the office and we weren’t there. I’m going to tell him to come by here.” As I begin typing out my reply, Sarah
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