Page 16 of Better than Revenge

“Wait, what do you mean ‘what the hell is this’? Why should it matter to you?” Ah, the bed-hopping ex-friend finally says something.

“This,” I wave my hand up and down in his direction, “looks like regret. Thank God you’re fucking stupid or not man enough to hold on to a woman like my kitten.”

His face goes from pale to red with outrage as Tamsin makes it worse. “Levi, we would have found each other no matter what.”

“Wait, this is your new boyfriend you were getting dinner for the other week?”

My girl nods with a self-satisfied smile curling her lips up. “I had to get my man fuel for all the extra activities I was going to put him through.”

“Seems like she found someone who can fill up her…nights, finally.” Sophie has both our backs.

“Tamsin doesn’t move that fast, buddy. So don’t even try to make us believe something happened between the two of you like that.”

“Maybe, but the towel she was prancing around the bedroom in says otherwise, Zit…Zane.”

Max, Sophie, and Tamsin laugh at my nickname for Zane since the day we met and I found out he was a little bullying shit.

“You already slept with him?”

“Now, Zi..Z,” she cuts herself off before committing to my nickname.

“Good save, baby.”

She giggles before focusing back on the asshole in front of us.

“A lady never tells, and she certainly doesn’t show what belongs to only her man.”

A well-placed dig at the ex-friend.

“You know how to keep Daddy happy, don’t you kitten.”

She nods before leaning down and taking my bottom lip between her teeth in the sexiest fucking kiss I have ever been privileged to. Eyes open and staring into mine. I swat her ass when she leans back to study my reaction, to make sure I’m okay with this. Fuck yes, I’m alright with it. I’m more than alright, I’m fucking rock hard and I show her as I take her hip and move against her so she can feel just how alright I am.

She giggles and stares down at me with a look of amazement in her eyes as I cup her cheek and pull her down so I can whisper to her. “I told you, you were sexy as hell, baby.”

“Hello.” God, did he always have such a whiny voice?

This time she does jump as she turns her eyes back to the little zit. “Sorry, I forgot you were there.”

“And the death blow has been dealt, people. Ooh, that must hurt like a sunburn over sand.”

He turns and stomps off leaving the traitor behind until she realizes he’s gone. Then she turns and runs after him.

We dissolve into cackles and laughs.

Sophie takes both of us in before dropping the thought that eats at me for the rest of the night, “You guys are good. You sure you’re not…more?”

Chapter Fourteen

Tamsin

Sometimes Sophie’s mouth shoots off and I want to bop her in the arm. I jump up out of Levi’s lap to tug on her arm.

“I mean, I get your partners-in-revenge, but you two have chemistry dripping off…”

“Sophie, honey, can you not? The last thing I want is for you to be overheard by those assholes or to chase Levi off.”

When I turn back to look at Levi, he’s giving me a look I don’t really understand. It’s intense and makes the blues of his eyes darken like the water of a lake right before a storm.

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