Page 31 of Cowboy Triplets Next Door

I gave up the idea of getting any real work done that day and decided I was going to find Eve and get drunk. That seemed like a much better plan than worrying about the Hellstone brothers.

CHAPTER 26

Billie

I elbowed Eve and nodded to a couple of men staring at her. “What about them?”

She glanced over and immediately shook her head. “How drunk are you? Those men are my grandpa’s age.”

I squinted in their direction and shrugged. “Age is nothing but a number, right?”

She laughed and threw back another shot. “So you keep saying.”

My head was fuzzy but I did have a memory of ranting about age not mattering. I grunted and smiled, too drunk to care if I was repeating myself. “I’m just saying. Men who act like they’re a hundred years older when they’re less than fifteen years older are dumb. I’m an adult woman. Look at me! Do I look like a little kid?”

Eve watched with wide eyes as I stood up and pulled off the flannel shirt I’d worn over my tank top. She tried to grab my hand but I was drunk enough that I was past being stopped. After almost falling off a bar stool, I managed to stand on top of the bar and throw my shirt into the crowd.

“Attention, everyone at Jack’s!” I pushed my hair out of my face and waved at the bartender shaking his head at me. “Do I look like a little kid? Am I too young to have a little fun?”

Cheers went up around the bar. “You look old enough to me!”

“Thank you, stranger in the crowd! I am old enough. No matter what three stupid, big-headed, jackass men think. I, Billie Myers, am a grown woman and I can—”

Thick arms wrapped around my thighs and I screeched when it felt like I was falling. Clutching the head of whoever grabbed me, I laughed as I slid down their body. My breasts smashed into their face and then I saw I was staring into the very angry eyes of Keaton. I tried to spin away from him and act like it wasn’t happening, but he had his arms locked around me.

“I don’t want to dance right now, Keaton. I was in the middle of something.” I looked over his shoulder at Eve, who was definitely checking out his ass. “It’s nice, right? Too nice.”

Keaton picked me up and growled when I naturally wrapped my legs around his waist. “You’re so lucky it was me who came to get you, Bumble B.”

Eve stood up and grinned at me. “You’re in big trouble, missy.”

I laughed even as I looped my arms around Keaton’s neck and sighed happily. “I think I got a ride home, Eve. You want to hop on?”

She giggled until a large shadow fell over her. Her eyes trailed up the big man’s body and I saw her cheeks darken. “What do you want?”

Keaton paused. “Are you good? I can drive you home, if you need. It’ll give me longer to rip B a new one.”

“My old ones are just fine, thank you.” I hiccupped and leaned away from Keaton so I could whisper at Eve. “I let him touch my butt. You know what I mean? My butt.”

Keaton swore and spun me away from Eve. “Eve?”

I could hear her laughing wildly and gave her a thumbs up over Keaton’s shoulder. “I give it an eight out of ten. Would recommend!”

“An eight?” Keaton, momentarily distracted, leaned his head back so he could look me in the eyes. “Really?”

I shrugged. “You didn’t finish.”

Eve gasped. “You didn’t come?”

I leaned way over so I could see her. “No, I did. But he and his brothers got all superior in the middle and I ran home half naked. Then, their younger brother saw me because I was out looking for my raccoon. I was sad and I needed someone to cuddle but he was cuddling with Betsy so I went back home all alone. Now I have Turtle, though, so when they upset me, I can just cuddle him.”

The guy next to Eve sighed and tugged her out of her seat and into his arms. “Glad to see you’re not the only insane woman around here.”

Keaton nodded to the man and they exchanged some sort of silent communication because they each took their own drunk woman their own way. Keaton carried me out of the bar without uttering another word. He buckled me into the passenger side of his truck and pulled onto the highway, all while remaining silent.

I wiggled in my seat and shivered. “It’s cold in here.”

“Maybe you should’ve thought of that before you took your shirt off and threw it across the bar.”

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