Page 45 of Cold Foot Cash

“Remind me to never get on your bad side,” Dylan said.

“See?” Cash asked Wreck. “All good. Everyone lived, my truck had new shiny windows, no need to make a big deal of it.”

“Hey Cash, did you know your lady can do a party trick?” Timber asked.

Well, that perked him up. “What kind of party trick?”Please be a stripper dance, please be a stripper dance—

“I can make a sound like an elephant.” Even in the firelight, the blush on Harley’s cheeks was evident.

“How does Timber know you have a party trick before I do?” Cash asked.

“She did it for us when you were taking a piss,” Katrina explained.

“If you do this, is it going to turn me on?” Cash asked. He wanted to know what he was in for.

“I think you’re super safe from that,” Harley said. “Ready?”

Preparing mentally for his potential boner, Cash nodded. “Born ready.”

She put her arm in front of her nose and did this graceful motion with it like it was an elephant trunk. She pursed her lips together and blew out a sound and was sort of elephant in nature, and Cash burst out laughing along with the others.

“Okay that was awesome.”

“Hey Cash, you should show her your party trick,” Katrina called out from where she was aiming her horseshoe at the small metal post in the ground.

“I assume you’re talking about my rapping.” He stood and cleared his throat.

“I will kill you if you rap a single line,” Wreck assured him.

“No, Raynah told me you pretend to be an angel at bars to attract hot chicks,” Katrina said.

Busted. He tossed a glare over his shoulder at Raynah, who was slithering through the water. All he could see were thespiked scales along her back. Traitor. “Do you girls talk about everything?” he grumbled.

“So it’s true?” Harley asked. She looked intrigued. Great.

“It’s sort of true,” he admitted.

“You should try it on Harley,” Katrina pushed.

“Well, me and Harley are the king and queen of the friendzone, and I don’t think she’s ready for that kind of seduction. Rain check.”

“I promise I won’t get seduced. Show me your angel moves.”

Cash inhaled deep and closed his eyes for a three count. He was going to piss on Raynah’s truck tires tonight. Or maybe he would just take them off her truck and toss them in the woods.

“Come on,” Harley encouraged him. “I’m feeling very difficult to seduce tonight. Very dry. Very unattracted.”

He narrowed his eyes at her. Was she throwing a challenge down? “Oh really,” he asked in a husky voice as he stood. Cash only broke eye contact with her as his shirt was coming off, and then he focused on the half Change. Pain ripped through his back as his wings pierced his skin, and he beat them hard against the air, leaped over the bonfire and landed gracefully right in front of Harley, whose smile had faded.

Wings folding slowly, he took three more slow, deliberate steps to close the last of the space between them, and then lifted his chin higher, fueled by the hungry look in her pretty blue eyes. Cash brushed one of her blond waves from her face and tucked it behind her ear, then cocked his head. “You and I both know I can seduce you whenever I want.”

“Ooooh,” the girls crowed at once.

“Okay, that was actually scary-smooth,” Timber said.

“How are you feeling there, Harley?” Sasha asked her.

Harley cleared her throat delicately and averted her gaze. “I’m…I’m…unaffected.” But her voice cracked on the last wordand the girls were all cracking up and goading her now. She took it well enough, and was trying and failing to hide her smile.

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