Page 5 of Her Devils

Gina chooses that moment to come outside, dragging a carry-on, and Dad and I both rush to help her with it.

“All right, kids,” I say with my brightest smile before opening the car door to help my new stepmother into the passenger seat of Dad’s car. “Congratulations again. Have a good night, and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.”

They both laugh, because the joke isn’t lost on them that there would be very little I wouldn’t do in a hotel room with a beautiful woman in my bed.

I watch them drive off and do my best to ignore the pang of guilt I feel for not coming clean about myfriendshipwith Lenley. I justify it by telling myself that Lenley is nineteen and she’s a woman, and that it isn’t just my call to talk about our deal outside of the people who are a part of it.

One thing I know for sure is that I’m not giving up on my deal with Lenley. First off, the job of getting payback with Penn isn’t done, but mostly, after I was with her earlier, I can’t stop thinking about her soft body and those bright green eyes fixed on mine while I was inside of her. I can’t forget the sweet taste of her kisses and the way she sounds when I make her come.

Like every addict in the world, I can’t wait for my next fix.

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Some Things Never Change

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Lenley

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ISIT THROUGH DINNERwithout even tasting the food, and that’s completely out of character for me.

I couldn’t even tell you what the chef Mom hired served, because all I can think about is that I must have been transported to a parallel universe or something equally as weird.

Maybe it’s because the last few hours of my life seem absolutely surreal, but I’d want to see how anyone else would feel in my shoes.

First, there was the altercation with Darrius outside the Angels’ headquarters, when he accused me offlirtingwith the Devils after he walked in on Jameson and me making out in the locker room. I mean, wewere making out.He didn’t really catch us in the act, but that’s beside the point. Darrius almost kissed me.

He was the one who wanted to kiss me, and the only reason it didn’t happen is because I was too furious with him and his asshole behavior, first with Mom and then with me in the span of a couple of hours.

Then Peyton knocked on my door, and I still can’t believe that we had sex. It was exciting and hot, and he took such good care of me. It was everything I’d always dreamed of, even if it wasn’t with the person I’d imagined it with all these years. Peyton isn’t my boyfriend, and he’d be absolutely horrified if I even used that word in his presence.

That would have been enough to rock my world, and of course I was dying to call Sarah and tell her everything, but we had no time because I was late for a family dinner.

Family dinner.

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