Page 310 of Vile Boys

“Do it for me, please?” Crystal begs, looking up at him with those sweet eyes of hers.

She knows just how to wrap all of us around her pretty littlefingers.

Ares’s eye roll makes me chuckle. “Fine.”

“Great,” I say. “Then let’s begin.”

“With what?” Ares asks. “What book is this even? What’s the genre?”

“Romance, darling.”

“Romance?” both boys say in tandem.

Caleb tries to lean up. “Nuh-uh, I ain’t reading that shit.”

“No one asked you to read. I’m reading it to you,” I reply.

When he moves his legs off, I grab them and place them back on top of me where they were before. “Stay.”

“Jesus,” he grumbles.

“Caleb, just shut up and listen,” Ares growls at him.

“What? Like you don’t feel the same way.”

“She wants us to do this together,” Ares says, throwing his hand over her shoulder. “So let’s just get it over with.”

“Yes. I want us to have more bonding time,” she says, melting my heart.

“You’re so sweet. Whatever did we do to deserve you?” I say, pecking her on the cheek.

“Enough with the slickness,” Caleb says. “Just start already.”

“Chapter one? Or chapter fifteen?” I wriggle my brows.

“What’s the difference?”

“The spice.”

“Oh yes, all the spice,” Crystal muses, biting her lip.

“Of course, you’d pick that chapter,” I reply, winking.

“Well, if you want spice, I’ll give you all the spice you desire later,” Ares says, slipping his hand down her shirt. “Start reading, then. Let’s see how far you get before she begs you to put it down and play out the scene instead.”

“Oh …” A mischievous grin spreads on my face. “Now that’s a plan I can definitely get behind.”

Caleb

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“So wait,let me get this straight … first, you tell me you want to be close again, and now you’re dating CrystalandAres together?” Nathan sloshes his coffee around in his cup.

I shrug and take a sip of my own. “You make it sound more complicated than it is. And I already told you I wanted to be friends.”

“Youarecomplicated,” he rebukes.

I snort. “Aren’t we all?”

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