Page 42 of An Unexpected Home

“OH MY GOD!” Carly shouted. “Stop talking about my cousin and eating pussy. I’m never going to be able to look at him again.”

Leah looked at Mel, ignoring Carly. “Both but the mouth skills... HOLY SHIT!”

“I knew it!” Mel said.

“Been thinking about it, have you?” Leah laughed.

Melanie blushed. “Not about Brandon.”

“Seriously, I’m about to poke my eyes out over here,” Carly said. “Can we please stop talking about your sex life with Brandon?”

“Fine,” she said. “But you need to tell me what to do then.”

“Hell if I’m going to do that,” Carly said. “You are the most stubborn person I know, aside from Mel. No way am I telling you what to do.”

“Advice then,” Leah countered, basically admitting that she was stubborn.

“My advice,” Melanie said, “is to just go with the flow and see where it leads.”

“Carly?” she asked.

Carly thought about it. “Pretty much the same as Mel except I would make sure you are always honest. If you can’t be honest with the person you think you love, then who can you be honest with?”

She nodded. “I think you’re right. And with everything going on with my family, honesty is important to me, too. Thanks guys.”

“Anytime,” Melanie said.

“Oh by the way,” she said. “Brandon is coming over and staying tonight. Is that okay?”

“You don’t have to ask us if someone can come over,” Carly said. “It’s your home now, too.”

“What she said,” Melanie injected. “Is he eating dinner with us?”

“If it’s okay? He said he would bring dessert.”

“I’m sure he’s bringing you dessert,” Carly said and made a strange face. “And yuck, I just made a sexual innuendo about my cousin.”

Melanie ignored Carly and said, “Logan is eating with us, too.” At Leah’s ‘really’ look she said, “He wrangled an invitation when he was helping me earlier.”

Melanie finally stood up from her crouched position on the floor.

“Can I ask...what’s going on there? With you and Logan?”

“Nothing,” she said, straightening some folders on her desk. “We’re just friends.”

“Ha!” Carly scoffed.

Leah gave her the ‘shut the fuck up’ eyes. “If you ever wanted to talk, I’m a good listener.”

“If I ever get up the courage to do anything about Logan Graham, I promise I will talk to you guys. Until then, I like to pretend that he doesn’t really exist.”

Leah figured that statement was as good as an admission that she liked him and it was a start.

“All right, new subject,” Carly said. “Let’s talk open house since it is only six days away.”

“Probably a good idea,” Melanie said, and they got down to business.

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