Page 89 of Always Yours

“Sure it is, sweetie; it has your name on it,” Camilla says in confusion as she turns it around.

Torch’s name is printed on there in glittery, purple letters. Everyone bursts out in laughter at the sight.

“She’s lying! She did that! I have a black, manly toolbox!” he shouts.

The women walk over as they start pulling out tools that all have sparkly pink handles.

“We probably need this,” Krista says grabbing a hammer.

They start holding tools and measuring with their fingers against the walls.

“I don’t know if it’s going to work,” Ella says, narrowing her eyes at the shelves as the men are still looking on in amusement.

“Do you think we should tell them?” Derek whispers to me.

I shake my head. “No way.”

“Well, we can use this,” Annalise says, grabbing a small saw and looking for somewhere to plug it in.

That’s when the men finally get off their seats and rush over to the women. Kid takes the saw out of Annalise’s hands, and they all practically push the woman out of the working area.

“Only if you’re sure you don’t need our help...” Ella says over her shoulder. The men can’t see the wicked grin on her face.

“No, you ladies rest; we can handle this,” Damien says.

The women giggle as they head to the kitchen.

“You ladies are evil,” Derek says with a laugh.

“We got played, didn’t we?” Steal asks, whispering to his brother.

Torch nods his head with a sigh. “Yep,” he replies.

I shake my head at the women.

“We’ve taught you well,” I say, and pretend to wipe a proud tear.

“It doesn’t work every time,” Derek grumbles.

I turn to look over at him and raise an eyebrow. “Really? Name one time that it didn’t work.”

When he doesn’t say anything for a few minutes, I smirk. “Go ahead... take your time.”

He lets out a defeated sigh. “Okay, I can’t think of one; but I’m sure there was one,” he mumbles.

“Just admit it works every time,” I say, causing the women to laugh.

“What works every time?” Crash asks while walking up to us.

“When you tell your man you want to ride him and, if he doesn’t, you’ve always got B.O.B,” Demi says loudly, making everyone look over at her.

“Damn rights. If you are playing with B.O.B, then I have to be there too,” Crash says grinning widely at Demi. He walks over and smacks her ass then heads back to the group of men.

The women laugh as soon as he is out of ear shot.

It definitely is never dull around here.

Derek “Prez”

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