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I smiled wide. “We haven’t tried them yet, but Alice managed to snag them before the hotel staff booted us from the room. She texted me that we should come over when you’re done yelling at me.”

“I’m not yelling at you, I’m just…” he trailed off.

I stood and wrapped my arms around his waist. “Coming down an adrenaline rush because you thought I was dead? Burned up in our hotel room from two loaves of banana bread?”

He wrapped his arms around me and buried his face in my hair. “That stroke didn’t kill me, but something tells me you are going to be the death of me, Meg.”

I leaned back, and my eyes connected to his. “I mean, let’s hope it’s when we’re in the middle of sex and not because of banana bread.”

“God, you’re crazy, but I fucking love it.” He leaned in and pressed a soft kiss to my lips. “I love you.”

I closed my eyes and pressed my forehead against his. “I love you, too.”

“We’re really going to have to add no fires to the rules, aren’t we?” he whispered.

“I mean,” I whispered, “it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea.”

“God, you really are a nut, Meg,” he sighed.

“A nut you love, though.” And thank god for that. I just hoped Wrecker, Pipe, and Jonas weren’t too upset with Alice, Nikki, and Lennox.

I knew Jonas was more than likely laughing his ass off with Lennox, but I wasn’t sure about Pipe and Wrecker.

Chapter Eleven

Alice

“Everyone is staring at us, aren’t they?”

Nikki looked around. “I think some people are, but it might just be because we’re hot. I mean, I would stare at us if I was them.”

We had managed to grab one of the large round tables toward the back of the ballroom for the pizza party. The guys were up getting pizza and drinks for us while we tried to lay low.

“No one is staring at us,” Meg laughed. “This hotel is filled with thousands of people. No one can know we were the ones who, uh, prompted the evacuation of the third floor.”

“And the fourth floor,” I added.

Meg bugged her eyes out at me. “No?”

I nodded. “Uh, yeah. The hotel manager told Wrecker that they, uh, had to evacuate the third and fourth floor.”

“I have to say, this is right up there with Cyn and I almost getting arrested for breaking a bed,” Meg laughed.

Lennox waved her hand. “Uh, I would have to say that evacuating two floors for some banana bread surpasses the broken bed.”

“There is one good thing, though.” I reached down and grabbed my purse.

“No,” Nikki gasped. “You didn’t.”

I shrugged and reached into my bag. “This stuff smells so good. I had to distract Wrecker by flashing him so he wouldn’t eat it.” I pulled out the loaves of banana bread and set them on the table.

We all stared at the banana bread.

“I mean, it looks pretty damn good,” Nikki confessed.

“I can smell it from here.” Lennox licked her lips.

Meg grabbed one of the loaves and broke it in half. “This is impossible.” She held the loaf to her nose and inhaled. “It doesn’t smell like smoke at all. I thought for sure it would be a smoke loaf.” She broke off a piece and popped it in her mouth.

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