Page 83 of Easy Out

I fall back on the bed. Lauren climbs over my naked body and smushes her tits on my chest. Damn dick is already twitching back to life.

“Are you okay?” Lauren brushes my hair off my face, twirling the curls around her fingers.

“I don’t know. That was…” I trail off trying to think of the right word. I cup her face and pull her toward my lips. “Thank you.” Kissing her thoroughly, I roll her over where she’s under me.

“James,” she says. It’ a siren’s song luring me. I attack her breasts with my mouth while I work the buttons on her jeans.

We’re doing this.

“Hello! Anyone home? Syd? Lo?” Someone looking for a slow death yells from the living room. My head drops on Lauren’s chest, and I groan. Lauren’s laughing.

“It’s Charlie. Give me a second. I’ll get rid of her.”

“Apúrate, brujita.”

“Put your pants on.” Lauren throws my boxers and pants at me. She whips a sweatshirt over her head.

Then glares at me with her hand on the doorknob. Ugh, fine.

I push my legs through the holes of my pants and tuck my dick away.

Happy now. I raise an eyebrow.

She smirks. Very.

Lauren opens the door and greets Charlie in the living room.

“Do you have company?” Charlie asks. Lauren’s hair is mused and her lips are swollen. Charlie knows the answer to her question.

“Hart is here. We’re studying.” Studying? We should study more often.

“Right, well, I won’t keep you from your studies.“ I can’t see the girls, but Charlie isn’t buying what Lauren is selling her.

“I’m guessing Syd isn’t here?” Lauren doesn’t answer her verbally. “Figures. She’s probably hanging out with her hot lab partner.”

“Probably,” Lauren agrees. I remind myself I don’t want to get involved, but I also file this information away for later in case Koa needs to know.

“I just came from The Armory, and they are doing a costume party for Halloween.” Charlie squeals. “We are all going.”

“I don’t know,” Lauren says.

“You could do couple costumes. It would be so cute.” I like Lauren a lot but that won’t be happening. The one thing I don’t do is costumes. I never have and I never will.

“Costumes aren’t really my thing, Charlie.” Thank fuck.

“Just think about it. Even Wren is going to be there.”

“She agreed to costumes?”

“Not exactly. But she will. She can’t say no to me.” I’ve never met Charlie, other than seeing her in the hall when I visit Lauren. I get the impression she is the type of girl that always gets what she wants.

I stop listening to the girls as they continue to make plans. This is the first time I’ve been in Lauren’s room and had the chance to look around.

Her bed is made with a fluffy dark teal comforter. The table by her bed and dresser are free of clutter except for a lamp and a textbook.

I won’t be a creep and look through her underwear drawer, as tempting as it is, but I’m not against looking through her nightstand. I’ll blame it on my investigation, but really, I will always want to dig deeper with Lauren. My curiosity will never be satisfied.

I also have this gut feeling there’s more she’s not telling me.

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