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His hands cover his face. “Fuck you very much, Lane.” He lets out a breath. “We didn’t have sex at the club.”

“No, you just fin-”

“Lane!” I shout. “Shut the fuck up. I don’t want to hear about where Knox fucks my sister.”

“Fine by me,” Knox mutters, pinching his brow.

“Since Lane’s stirring shit,” Josh says, “why doesn’t he answer the question?”

“Because I probably have too many,” he shrugs. “I was quite the exhibitionist before I had a kid.”

“Ew,” I say, wrinkling my nose. “No one wants to see your dick.”

“I have a nice dick, thank you. Never had any complaints.”

“Well, that’s enough dick talk for me,” I grumble, starting to stand up.

“Sit your ass down,” Josh says, and I listen. “This is my bachelor party, and now I demand to know the craziest place you’ve had sex.”

“Does a cornfield count as crazy? I haven’t slept around much since I got back to NY, and Kansas was filled with cornfields.”

“Cornfields aren’t crazy,” Josh chides. “That’s like a rite of fucking passage in the midwest. You really don’t have any crazy sex stories?”

“Not about location,” I shrug. “I’m more of a bed kinda guy.”

“Oh, come on,” Knox says, egging me on. “You’ve got to have some crazy experience.”

“I… kind of do,” I mutter, rubbing the back of my neck.

“Ooh, this is going to be juicy, isn’t it?” Lane asks, looking as excited as a kid in a damn candy store.

“Probably,” I reply. “It can’t leave this room.”

“What the hell are you about to tell us?” Josh asks, actually looking nervous.

“I had sex with Rory!” I blurt out, the words escaping me before I can compose them in a more refined fashion.

Knox, Lane, and Josh all stare at me, mouths agape. Safe to say they weren’t expecting that.

“Skip’sdaughter?!”Josh says. “What the fuck?”

“Yeah, what the fuck?” Lane yells. “You told me this morning that nothing happened between you two.”

“I fucking lied,” I sigh. “To fill you in, Josh, I’ve liked Rory for a long ass time. Knox and Lane figured it out. It apparently wasn’tone-sided. I took Knox’s advice on Monday and had her come over that evening, after the girls got back from Vegas. Didn’t expect it to happen, but we fucked.”

“My advice was to talk to her, not stick your dick in her!”

“Skip is going to murder you,” Josh says, eyes wide.

“That’s why I said it doesn’t leave this room. According to Rory, we were just ‘getting it out of our systems.’” I say the last part in air quotes. “Well, she ain’t outta my fucking system.”

“How the fuck am I always the last to find something out?” Josh asks.

“I didn’t tell either of these two dickheads,” I chide. “They figured it out on their own.”

“What the fuck are you going to do, Cole?” Knox asks, sounding genuinely concerned.

“Nothing,” I sigh. “Can’t do a goddamn thing anymore. It was one night. On a totally unrelated note, anyone know where the nearest monastery is? I think I have a new calling as a priest.”

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