Page 56 of Sinful Like Us
She washes down the heart and then picks up another with a heavy breath. Quietly, she asks her brothers, “What happens if I vomit?”
Eliot grins. “You’ll have to eat it.”
“No,” I say at the same time as Beckett.
“You’ll lose if you puke,” Charlie says. “The game stops for you, but Thatcher will continue.”
Jane looks simultaneously determined and afraid. “I’m finishing.” Pinching her nose, she places another heart in her mouth.
She gags instantly. One more gag and she’s puking—she starts to.
I cover her mouth with my hand.
What I do for love and pussy.
Jane has to force down vomit. Her blue eyes flit to me with relief and appreciation. She swallows. Her cheeks radiate heat against my hand, and I’m more in love with this girl today than I was yesterday.
I didn’t think that was possible.
She has five hearts left to eat. I kiss her temple, and it takes ten minutes for her to eat the next two.
Three more to go.
I wipe her watering eyes while her dirtied hands hover mid-air. And then her phone rings, and I eye her breasts.
She stuffed her phone in her bra.Eating a mouthful, her eyes spark with panic and rest on me.
Her brothers are going to have to deal. I reach down into her rainbow-hued blouse. My fingers brush against the soft flesh of her breasts, and volcanic tension bubbles between me and her—our eyes latched.
Our breaths caught.
And I pull out her cellphone on the fourth ring.
“What was that aboutrespectingour sister?” Charlie cocks his head.
I grind my teeth. Whatever I say will be another shovel of dirt and deeper grave I’m digging. Lord fucking knows I can’t find the perfect words.
Jane tries to speak with a mouthful. Mumbling.
“The ears can’t understand thy tongue,” Eliot says.
She enunciates better. “I asked him to grab… my phone.” She swallows, then nods me on to answer the phone.
Audrey Cobalt is calling. Back when I was just Jane’s bodyguard, her thirteen-year-old carrot-orange-haired sister would gawk up at me while I was on-duty. I’d wait for her to say something, and she’d just let out this wheezy sigh.
Easily smitten, I’m sure she’s had a crush on half the team, but the one that grew strong was towards Oscar Oliveira. She’d bake him cookies, up until the Hot Santa video leak.
Audreysent the footage to a friend, who leaked the video and screwed all of Omega.
It wasn’t her fault. I was a lead. That was on me. The video should’ve never existed in the first place.
I put their sister on the line.
“Jane?” Audrey says tearfully.
Jane frowns at the phone and clears her throat of food. “Audrey, what’s wrong?”
“I heard all six of you are there and I’m not. You’ve all left me out.” Her voice cracks, nearing a sob. “Us, Cobalts—we’re aseven. Not a six. Yet you…you kept me from joining tonight, why? Is it because I’m untrustworthy? Because I leaked the bodyguard video? I promise you can trust me!I promise.Please, give me another—”
