Page 79 of Indecent Ventures

She nods.

“It’s nice to meet you. You have excellent taste in wine. Not so much when it comes to men.”

Collin and Ashleigh both laugh. Mac does not.

She peeks into the bag. “Oh my god. I love Snoop Dogg wine. It’s so underrated.”

I nod. “I agree. Have you ever seen how the bottle can talk to you?”

Ashleigh’s eyes widen. “What? Are you serious?”

“Yep. There’s a website where you hold your phone up to the bottle and Snoop on the label starts talking to you.”

She looks downright excited. “Will you show me later?”

“Of course.”

Collin kisses Ashleigh on the cheek. “Hi, beautiful.”

She blushes. Does her husband never compliment her? I really don’t like him.

She loops her arm through mine and pulls me into the house. “I’m so excited to meet you. We’ve never once met anyone Collin has dated.”

“We’re not dating. We’re just fucking.”

She spits out laughing. “I see you two are a lot alike.”

I was serious, but she seems to think I was joking.

“I heard about this morning. Mac was whining about it, but it sounds really hot.”

I give a conspiratorial smile. “It wasveryhot.”

She lowers her voice. “Did you guys really have sex in the bucket?”

“No, we just got naked and slept in it.”

“Oh.”

“I’m kidding, Ashleigh. Yes, we had sex in the bucket. Several times.”

Her face lights up. “God, that sounds so exciting.”

“It was amazing.” Clearly Collin not only got all the attractiveness genes in the family, but the sex-god genes as well.

We walk into the rest of the house, and I’m introduced to the entire family. His father has a thick Irish accent. It’s cute. His mother makes at least six comments about my height. It’s like she’s never seen a tall woman before.

I know Braden, and briefly met Shane at the construction site. I meet his wife, Lydia, but when they introduce me to their son, NJ, I can’t help but toggle my head between him and Collin. I land on Collin. “Is he yours?”

Collins laughs as he wraps his arm around Lydia. “We’ll never be a hundred percent sure, right Lyd?” He winks at her, and she smiles.

Shane removes Collin’s arm. “He doesn’t look that much like Collin.”

Collin bends down to NJ and gives him a high-five. “We’re the hottest guys around, right NJ?”

NJ rubs his own chin with a bit of bravado. “Our mugs get all the mademoiselles, right Uncle Collin?”

Collin winks at him. Shane smacks the back of Collin’s head. Hard. “Did you teach him that?”

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