Page 40 of Silver Spoon MC Collection: Loni's Crew

“Hold up.” Jenna shushes her best friend before turning to me. “Are you freaking serious?”

“As a heart attack.” I shrug.

“Holy cow.” Emery’s eyes almost bulge out of her head. “You snagged the hottest rockstar in the world?” She doesn’t have to act like it’s so unbelievable.

“He’s one of Cash’s MC brothers.” I sigh. “It just happened.” They all stare at me with wide eyes as I explain what I’ve been up to the last week. I tell my best friends everything, leaving out the part where Bender played my body like a well-tuned instrument.

“Are you sure he feels the same way?” Maddie has always been the most cautious of us.

“I have no doubt,” I reassure her. “This is the real thing. Like what Jenna has with Wild, and what Emery has with Marco.” Maddie’s shoulders relax, and she gives me a sad smile.

“Fudge my life,” Jenna complains. “I did this. If I hadn’t made you go to that interview, I wouldn’t be losing my bestie.”

“Hey.” Piper smacks her arm. “For one thing, I’m your bestie, and for another, we’re not losing her.” Then she looks at me with a raised eyebrow. “Right?”

“Right,” I agree. “I was hoping Jenna would let me work remotely. And I’ll come to visit you guys often. Oh, and you guys can come to Silver Spoon Falls to visit me.”

The phone on the middle of the table buzzes before our secretary’s voice comes through the intercom. “Uh,” Lou stutters, “You won’t believe this. Bender Valentine is standing in front of my desk asking for London.”

“Send him in.” I smile. Seeing my hunky rockstar in person will show my friends.

All three of them sit with their mouths hanging open as Bender strolls in and pulls me into his arms. “I wanted to see how it’s going.” He kisses me to within an inch of my life, and I forget about my three friends watching us. “And I missed you,” he adds, and I hear Maddie sigh behind me. Bender looks yummy in his tight faded jeans and a yellow polo shirt with his long hair pulled back in a low ponytail. He has a baseball cap pulled low on his forehead with dark sunglasses that hide a good part of his handsome face. Someone passing him on the sidewalk might have trouble recognizing the world-famous rockstar.

“I was just telling the girls about our plans.” I pull back and smile at him, then turn to introduce my friends. “Bender, this is my friend, Jenna, the Editor-in-Chief of Curvy Cuties.”

He gives her his million-dollar smile and reaches for her outstretched hand. “Nice to finally meet you.”

I watch my happily married friend melt right before my eyes. “You too,” is all the chattiest of all of us manages.

“This is Maddie, Emery, and Piper.” I point at each of my friends and watch while they each have the same reaction as Jenna.

“I thought I might take all of you to lunch after your meeting,” Bender offers. “If you have time?” They all nod while staring at him with their mouths hanging open. He turns to me and smiles the special smile he reserves for me. “Is noon good? I have a few errands, and then I’ll come back to get you guys.”

“That sounds great.” I kiss him one more time and watch him walk out the door.

“You lucky bitch,” Jenna mutters. “We’ll make your job work because there is no way you can turn down a chance with that man.”

My heart settles into place knowing I won’t have to give up my friends to have my future with Bender.

CHAPTERFORTY

BENDER

Ispend the rest of the morning putting my plan into action. After London walked out her door this morning, I got a taste of missing her. I can’t take that shit. It only took a few calls for me to make my arrangements.

At ten minutes to noon, I walk back into the Curvy Cuties office to find three bulking assholes glaring at me. “He does look like all that,” the tallest of the three growls. “Look at that shiner. I bet he pissed off a mean motherfucker.”

These must be the Cuties’ men. After years of dealing with jealous men who have nothing to worry about, I hold out my hand to the leader. “I’m Bender Valentine, London’s man.” None of these fuckers better have a thing for my angel or I will be forced to kick some ass. “And my angel’s brother was a little disgruntled.” They don’t need to know any more than that.

His eyes narrow, but he returns my shake. “Wild Templeton, Jenna’s husband.” Then he steps back and points at the shortest of the three. “This is Captain Marco Grayson.” The other man grips my hand so tight, tears almost come to my eyes. I make sure to return his shake with equal pressure. “And this is my business partner, Dillon Evans.”

“Piper’s man,” the blond man adds.

“As soon as you get off your ass and make a move,” Wild mumbles under his breath, and his business partner growls something unintelligible under his breath before shaking my hand.

“I’m happy to meet all of you.” The years of Gloria drilling manners into my head pay off. “I was just coming to take the girls to lunch. You’re all welcome to join us if you’d like to.”

“Hell fucking yes,” the one who hasn’t grown the balls to make a move on his girl agrees.

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