Page 17 of Alice & Meg

I smiled and tucked it back into my purse. “Thank you.”

Wrecker nodded to King. “You ready to get this day of meetings going?”

Lo shrugged. “I’m hoping they don’t put me to sleep.”

“I’d like to just skip to your pinstriping seminar this afternoon,” Pipe called.

“Yeah, me, too,” Lo agreed. “I much prefer to keep my hands busy than to just sit around listening to some guy drone on about water runoff or accounting for the future of body shops.”

“Uh,” Wrecker grunted. “I am for sure going to skip the accounting one. I leave that all to Alice.”

“You got stuck with all of the office work, too?” I asked Alice.

Alice wrinkled her nose. “I mean, yeah, but Nikki and Karmen help me a lot. The math is sometimes not mathing for me.”

Wrecker glanced at Alice. “Maybe we shouldn’t tell people that our accounting is less than stellar.”

Alice bumped her shoulder into him. “Easy, beardilocks. I don’t think Meg and King are going to run around the hotel telling everyone the accounting at the garage sucks.” Alice lowered her voice. “It only halfway sucks.”

We all laughed, and I had to admit that Alice was a hoot.

“Why don’t you guys come with us to the store while the guy’s head to the morning meetings?” Nikki suggested. “We did a little Google before coming down and saw there is a Walmart a few miles away.”

“Sounds good to me,” Lennox replied. “I’d much rather wander around shopping than sit in some boring meeting.”

“And,” Alice drawled. “We noticed there is also an outlet mall right by the grocery store.”

Lennox pressed a kiss to Jonas’ cheek. “Check ya later, sexy. I’m shopping.”

I glanced at Lo who had a genuine smile on his lip.

“Go,” he laughed.

“Are you sure?” I really didn’t want to leave Lo. I knew that Jonas would kick ass if anyone tried to make Lo feel bad, but I still wanted to be close to him.

Lo nodded. “Babe, go.”

“I’ll be back in time for your pinstriping seminar, okay?”

He leaned down and pressed a kiss to my lips. “I know you will be.”

“Ready for my water to break at any time,” I added. Lo shook his head and stepped back.

“What?” Alice laughed.

I waved at her. “I’ll explain in the car.”

“Behave,” Wrecker grunted at Alice, his voice tinged with a hint of warning. “I don't want a phone call asking for bail money.”

Alice scoffed, her defiance evident in her tone. “Oh, please, Wrecker. When is the last time I did anything remotely bad that would get me arrested?”

Pipe chimed in with a smirk. “July fourth, three years ago. You girls bought some fireworks from some shady guy on the side of the road. You popped the trunk for us to get them out, a cop pulled up, and we found out you bought some freaking illegal ass fireworks. You bought illegal fireworks from an undercover cop,” he emphasized, his words dripping with amusement. “Thankfully, the cops figured out you guys had no freaking clue what you were doing and just got a warning not to buy fireworks from the side of the road.”

Alice rolled her eyes, dismissing Pipe with a wave of her hand. “He didn't even pull out his handcuffs, Pipe. That does not qualify as getting arrested.”

“Are you sure your name isn’t Meg?” Lennox asked. “That sounds like something Meg and Cyn would do.”

“We just break beds,” I laughed.

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