Page 22 of We Are All Sinners

I get dressed quickly and make my way back downstairs as the smell of pizza hits my nose.

“Oh my God tell me you bought enough for me to take to Evie’s?” I ask as I open one of the boxes on the counter in the kitchen and grab a slice of pepperoni.

“I got plenty. Figured we would all want to stay in tonight. I know I do. Sorry Noah, but you are banished to your room or the backyard.” Liam laughs as he takes a bite of his typical pepperoni and jalapeno pizza.

“Don’t worry, I’ll make myself scarce in the media room tonight jerking off to whatever porn I can find on my favorite site!” Noah rolls his eyes, sighing.

“Why don’t you go out tonight? I heard Bourbon Heat is having a party with live music. You never know, you could meet someone.” I offer, attempting to get him to go have some fun. Sometimes, I feel like Noah prefers solitude.

“Maybe, I do love their boils!” He replies with a smirk as he drops his Canadian bacon and pineapple pizza back on his paper plate. He gets up from the table nodding his head, “Yeah, I think I’ll go take a shower and go out tonight. Don’t wait up!” He chuckles, waggling his eyebrows as he turns the corner out of the kitchen.

“Well, that was easy. Now go to Evie’s and work your magic getting Emily to come over here!” Liam nudges my shoulder.

“I don’t think I’ll have to beg bro. She was gushing about you to Evie this morning. She already likes you; you just have to make sure she continues to like you.” I joke with my best friend. We have been through a lot together over the years. Love just has not been one of them. We never planned on settling down.

We had a plan in place so that we wouldn’t have to.

Noah, on the other hand, I have always expected to find someone special and settle down at any point in time. He has always longed for love, just never found anyone he wanted to give his love to.

He is as ruthless as we are when it comes to the job, but he is very different when it comes to what he has always wanted in life.I hope he finds his mystery girl and she is everything he could have ever dreamed of. Noah truly is a hopeless romantic.

“I just want tonight to go well. She was drunk on some wine that she got in a big thank you basket one of her authors sent her and probably doesn’t remember much anyway. She told me a few things about herself and why she is a recluse. She doesn’t seem fragile, but she is. I don’t want to break her.” Liam is more open about real feelings right now than I have ever seen him be with anything. Maybe we have all been under the same spell not able to feel until we were all back together.

I’ve noticed that Emily doesn’t venture out much. It made getting the cameras in tricky, but I made sure Liam kept an eye on her so I could slip out before she returned. Mostly, she just brings Genevieve lunch or heads to a place off Frenchmen St. that belongs to her author friend Lily.

Last week she surprised us and met Lily, who is a stunning strawberry blonde. Noah seemed to drool over her a bit while we watched the girls eat lunch at the little jazz bistro close to her house called Snug Harbor.

“Maybe you can help mend her broken pieces. Take your time with her, get to know her, and see where it goes. That’s all I got man. I’m not really in a position to give advice. I know my little witch is the only woman I’ll ever need, but I spent my whole life trying to win her over before she was taken from me. Honestly, I don’t know the first thing about relationships.” I reply as honestly as I can.

Two weeks ago, I wouldn’t have uttered those words about anyone, let alone had thought them at all.

“I will be as patient with her as she needs. I ordered a few things last week that finally came in to help get us over the hump!” Liam claps his hands, rubbing them together as he stands up and leaves the room for only a few seconds. He comes back carrying a big box, then dumps it on the table.

“Jesus Christ! What did you do, order the whole setup from porn hub r us? Is this because they thought we were gay?” I ask as I sift through the mountain of XXX DVD’s, four different pocket pussies, what looks like a human female ass that is very realistic, a blow-up doll, three penis pumps, three rubber doll faces with the mouth open in an O, three large boxes of flavored condoms that glow in the dark, three boxes of regular condoms, and every lube known to mankind.

“I ordered this last week when I thought you were going to take forever to get pipsqueak over there to finally give you the time of day. Now, it’s perfect for me if Emily isn’t ready to take that step, since she just got out of a relationship. I can be the good guy and wait for her instead of being my typical man-whore self, fucking whatever is present to get by! Don’t ya think?” He explains as he slaps the fake ass, grinning from ear to ear.

“Hmm, really does seem more realistic when you smacked it. You can keep this shit for you and Noah man, I think I’m good. But thanks!” I laugh as I smack the ass myself. Feels like a real ass! I watch it jiggle, nodding my approval. I had to feel it at least once to see.

“Yup pretty realistic!” I joke as I grab a few pizza boxes and head out the side door, of the kitchen.

“Yeah, we’ll see how much you need it when Evie is every bit the prude she was ten years ago bro!” Liam yells after me laughing as the door shuts.

They don’t know that I took her virginity that night, and they have no clue she took mine.

“We’ll see asshole!” I mumble under my breath with a smirk.

He may not be wrong but judging by the way my little witch’s body reacted to my every touch, I’m pretty sure I’m good. My dick hardens at the thought of being with her again.

I have to tell her everything before I let it get to that though...

I stop halfway around the porch and turn back around going back in the way I came out. Liam looks up stunned.

“What did you forget? Or did she reject you already?!” He busts out laughing.

“I forgot the file! You’re a dickhead! I can’t sleep with her and act like I don’t have secrets right now, she deserves to know the truth. I need to show her before I take anything to whatever level is next with us. She will see it anyway if I don’t and I can’t be that guy with her.” I get serious for a minute to make sure he understands what this means.

“I’ll grab it, do what ya gotta do brother. I’m going to go ahead and contact Alec and see what he knows. He was the one who brought all the shit about Boudreaux and Queen bee. He will be the one we need to go through on this one if we want to find him. You’re right, she is gonna want to know who her mom and dad are.” He offers before disappearing from the kitchen again.

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