Page 26 of Seize Me

“Here’s a table,” Savannah announced as she rushed to set her purse down on an empty four top.

“Perfect.Thank you.”I forced a smile.“Let’s have some drinks.”

“It’s like, three in the afternoon,” Savannah blinked as she gaped at me.

“You make it sound like it’s a bad thing,” I chuckled.

“Hell no!”Trevor shot us both a conspiratory grin.“It’s five o’clock somewhere.”

“I don’t drink very much,” Savannah confessed.“Someone has to stay sober to drive us back to Genesis.”

“No problem,” I assured.“I can drink like a sailor on leave.”

Well, I usually could.Having skipped breakfast and lunch, the four sweet, woody bottles of wine proved a bad call of judgment…Really bad.

Savannah suggested food might sober us up a bit, so we ordered a couple of appetizers, most of which went uneaten.We were too busy laughing and drinking and drinking even more.

“We need more wine,” Trevor announced.Standing he wobbled to the bar for another bottle.When he returned, he wore a frown.

“Whass wrong?”Savannah slurred.

“Snotty…umm, I mean, Scotty.”Trevor nearly fell to the floor in a fit of giggles.

Tears leaked from Savannah’s eyes, as well as my own.I patted the chair next to me, and Trevor slunk down onto the seat, still laughing hysterically as I wrapped him in a hug.

“What did Snotty say?”I asked, then snorted, and our laughter grew thunderous once again.

“This is the last bottle for us,” Trevor pouted, holding up the half empty carafe.

“Slotty’s a dirty rotten sloundrel,” Savannah sulked.

Trevor and I weaved to the bar and tried to wheedle shots of vodka, but Scotty was adamant.Once our last bottle of wine was empty, our beverage choices were limited to coffee, tea, or soda.He’d cut us off.It was probably a good thing too, because the three of us were so blasted we had to make trips to the bathroom using the buddy system.

Raising our glasses with the last of the wine, Savannah’s cell phone rang, and rang, and rang.Carefully placing her wine glass on the table, she pawed at her purse but couldn’t find the right compartment that held the ringing device.

“Awww, just fnuck it,” she groused as she held her purse to her face and spoke loudly into the leather bag.“Leave me a massage…err, I mean, a message at the beep.Beep!”

Trevor and I howled.That’s about the time Scotty sauntered up to our table.

“You three seem to be having a fine time this evening,” he announced with an arch of his brow.“Whoever is driving, I’ll take your keys now.”

“Are you a donnannit too?”I asked.“You sure give orders like one.”

“No, Leagh, I’m not.But I am curious.Do your Dominants know where the three of you are right now?”Scotty asked with a suspicious glare.

His question hit me like a Mack truck.

Looking at Trevor first, then Savannah, when Scotty’s gaze landed on me, his face fell.“Oh shit, Leagh.I’m sorry, baby.I didn’t mean…”

“Oh honey, shhh.No.No, don’t cry,” Savannah commiserated as she plucked the napkin from her lap and wiped my face.

I hadn’t even realized that tears streamed down my cheeks.

“It’s okay, Snotty.Just can you call Dadd…Drake for us, please,” Trevor whispered as he wrapped his arm around my shoulder and squeezed me tight.

I held the stiff cotton linen to my face and sobbed.Scotty’s innocuous question knocked the foundation out from under me.And once I’d turned on the water works, I couldn’t seem to find a way to shut them off.

Trevor and Savannah led me to the ladies’ room and set me on a red velvet chaise.They held me as I bawled and bawled.

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