Page 72 of Beautifully Reckless

Imagine it grinding on your lap.

Leather & Lace Gentlemen’s Club Melbourne

My cheeks flame as Lani giggles and Millie glares, both of them taking a moment to read the damn t-shirt.

Mortified.

That’s the only word for what I feel right now.

Okay, ground. You can open up and swallow me now.

Please!

“Well, I guess we know where he found you,” Millie scoffs as Ringo finally strolls in, a frown tugging at his brows.

“And where’s that?” he asks, his gaze bouncing between us.

“A strip club, Cam? Really?” Millie crosses her arms over her chest, unimpressed, and Ringo’s frown deepens until he spots my tee.

Then he laughs.

“Yep. Apparently I’ve got a thing for half naked, pregnant strippers.”

“Cameron!” his mother snaps, but he and his sisters ignore her.

“She was already pregnant?” Lani squeaks. “You mean to tell me, you made a stripper your old lady and the baby’s not even yours?”

She makes it sound like a scandal, talking about me like I’m not even in the room.

Ringo’s sisters are confusing me. One second I think they like me, and the next I feel like I’m the enemy, and all Ringo can do is shrug like it’s just another typical Friday.

I can’t just sit here and listen to this.

Theold Abbey would have, but I’m not her anymore.

“Whoa, hold up.” I slide off the stool, hands raised. “First of all, I amnota stripper. Don’t listen to your brother. He’s talking shit.”

JD bursts out laughing, while Ringo’s smile falls.

“You’re swearing now?”

“Damn right I am, Mr!” I snap back before swinging my glare at the sisters, who both look like they have a front row seat to a reality show. “If youmustknow, your brother kidnapped me, kept me locked in his room, and then claimed me as his in front of his barbarian biker buddies.”

“Hey,” JD pouts. “I’m no barbarian.”

“He kidnapped you?!” Lani gasps, just as Ringo’s mum slams her knife down on the stone benchtop.

“She’d better be joking, Cameron!”

Cringing, I glance at Ringo, and his jaw ticks as he levels me with a glare.

“Thanks for throwing me under the bus, Angel.”

“Angel?” Lani echoes, so softly I almost miss it.

Sighing, Ringo pinches the bridge of his nose before raising his hands.

“Everyone just stop. Give me a second to think.”

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