Page 58 of 12 Days

Chapter 24

Alyssa

Here I am, on my way out the door of True Love’s salon, all dressed up with no place to go.

“Or should I say, all turned-on with no super-hot men to fuck,” I say out loud to my reflection in a mirror. I see my reflection immediately start blushing in response.

“Whoa, that came out of nowhere,” I confess sheepishly to my mirror-self.

I’m not wrong, though. Not about the turned-on part, at least. Fortunately, I believe I’m wrong about the part that I’m hoping to be wrong about.

True Love hasn’t disappointed me yet in that area. Every bit of desire I’ve ever felt here has been addressed handily, and I’ve no reason to believe that this time should be any different.

Although with that perfume hanging heavily in the air, I’m not sure if anything could fill the great chasm of fiery, devastating lust that’s still growing inside me.

I wonder if anyone got my selfie yet. I hope that simple, seemingly innocent photo of me, smiling and radiant in the salon, is enough to convey a crumb, a tiny fragment of the carnal heat that’s consuming me.

Even if I’m horribly, disappointingly correct about no men to help me live out my current cravings, I can take some comfort in the fact that I got to share some of my passion with an audience who I know will appreciate it.

But there is a deep, deep well?a sea, actually, an ocean of that same passion waiting for its chance to be explored properly.

All I can think about right now, the goal I have in life that’s eclipsing everything else at the moment, to fulfill any part of it.

A friendly walk in the park, a picnic, a wild night of crazed sex with a coterie of devoted, sexy men?I would be over the moon to experience any of it right now.

I’ve barely left the salon when I’m greeted by the welcome site of the most handsome foursome imaginable.

Sean. Ethan. Nico. Ford.

My eyes scan the group slowly from left to right, then from right to left as they stand before me in a straight line. It doesn’t matter if I start with Sean and move slowly to Ford, or if I begin by looking at Ford and work my way over to Sean; it always starts out amazing and gets better and better.

“You guys are about the best sight I could have hoped to see right now,” I share, and they exchange a few understated looks with each other.

“I said the same thing when I got your text,” Ethan responds immediately. “That photo, my goodness.”

“We all said that,” admits Nico, his beautiful eyes fixed on me, riveted by my post-salon allure.

“The four of us were all in the same room when that text went through, and after seeing that photo, we all basically raced each other down here,” Sean explains with a mischievous smirk, which lets me know he’s embellishing a bit and letting me in on the joke.

“That’s all true, technically.” Here’s the moment I knew would come: Ford weighing in with his serious and seriously sexy way of cutting through the silliness and presenting the bare facts.

“But we’ve also been planning this for a while,” he continues. “Your selfie just happened to come at the perfect moment, throwing gasoline to the fire I already have burning for you wildly.”

Ford’s doing his best to draw my attention exclusively to himself?stepping forward slightly, his eyes both greedily drinking in my beauty and effortlessly conveying his own intense passion and desire.

“Yeah. You looked fucking hot!” Ethan interrupts Ford’s meaningful gaze with that pithy observation, but Ford doesn’t even turn around to give Ethan a brief, angry look. All he does is nod in agreement.

“You look even better now, which I didn’t think was possible.” Ethan’s follow-up to his own statement is met with nods from everyone.

The four of them are still standing in essentially the same position, perfect for going down the line one more time, and I’m feeling real heat as they return my desirous expression with fiery expressions in their eyes.

“I’m not sure where this is going,” I say, “but I’m liking it very much regardless.”

“We’re all liking it very much, as well, I assure you,” Nico responds instantly, “but I can also give you a hint where this is going in the very near future.”

Once Nico sees that I’m providing him with my full attention, he indicates where this is all leading to by silently pointing upwards.

I look straight up at the ceiling, spotting nothing out of the ordinary.

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