Total pages in book: 120
Estimated words: 121887 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 609(@200wpm)___ 488(@250wpm)___ 406(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 121887 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 609(@200wpm)___ 488(@250wpm)___ 406(@300wpm)
They all recoiled.
I got this. Sticking your nose in family business was rarely a smart thing go do. Sticking your nose into two alphas clashing about something important was courting a death wish.
But this was Javi.
This was my guy (yeah, I’d made that official in my head too).
So we had to do something.
“What are we gonna do about it?” Luna asked cautiously.
“Track him down and make him promise to lay off Javi,” I answered. “I told him last night, he needs to let Javi reach out when…and if…he wants to. But Javi says he’s blowing up his phone, so even though his dad left, I’m not sure he was listening to me.”
“You talked to the guy?” Raye inquired.
I nodded. “Javi was losing it, so I got between them. And by the way, Javi looks just like his dad, except his dad is blond.”
“I can’t envision it,” Shanti said.
“I can. I Googled him,” Luna said. “He was a heartbreaker back in the day, no pun intended. He married an up-and-coming actress who supposedly quit her dream to be a wife and mother. Though, I looked at her filmography and it’s probably more she quit because she’s a shit actress and she found her meal ticket. Case in point, a few years ago, she tried to get a Real Housewives of the Valley of the Sun thing going, but it didn’t take off.”
My lip curled. “Gross.”
“Mm-hmm,” Luna agreed.
“I am so down with finding this guy and laying some truth on him,” Jessie said.
“I’m in,” Shanti said.
“Me too,” Willow said.
“It’s agreed,” Raye put in. “We’ll add that to our caseload. I’ll ask Arthur for his deets and we’ll plan.”
Excellent.
“Okay, before we get into Raye sharing why she’s mad at Cap, I have another dilemma,” I said.
“And this would be?” Willow prompted.
“I told Javi I wanted to take the physical part of our relationship slow, and now every time it gets really good, he stops it so we can take it slow.”
No one said anything, they just stared at me.
“It should be said,” I added, “that every time he kisses me, it’s good. Actually, it’s great. But I mean, this morning, we were all over each other, and then, with no warning, I no longer had my hands in Javi’s jeans, and he wasn’t grinding between my legs.”
Still, no one said anything, but now Luna and Shanti had faraway looks in their eyes, probably because they were wondering what it would feel like to have their hands in Javi’s jeans.
I didn’t mind this, because they’d never know, and I already did.
And it felt awesome!
But we had a time limit on our briefing so we could go meet Shanti’s cousin, so they needed to snap out of it.
“Hello!” I called. “I mean, stupid me for saying I wanted to take it slow, I see I made a woeful mistake, but now I want to speed it up, and it’s not like I’m being quiet about it, but Javi refuses to take us there.”
“Has it occurred to you that he wants to take it slow?” Jessie asked.
“No. This did not occur to me,” I replied. “Seeing as he was grinding between my legs, and I felt how ready he was for me.”
“Oh my God, I haven’t been laid in a while and this is torture,” Luna groaned.
“I hear that, sis,” Shanti muttered.
“You know you could—” Raye started, aiming this at Luna, but I knew she was going to mention Knox, so I cut in.
“And he even said he wanted to ef me hard on the couch.”
“Babe,” Jessie said, but spoke no more.
“What?” I asked.
“It can be special for guys too,” she said.
I went statue still.
Because…
Oh.
My.
God.
It wasn’t just because I told Javi I wanted to take it slow.
It was because he wanted me so bad, he wanted our first time to be special.
“I think I’m going cry,” I whispered.
“I think I am too,” Willow whispered with me.
“I think she’s so over putting him off,” Luna said.
“I think she is too,” Jessie agreed.
“I think I’m going to let Javi set the pace,’ I said.
“I think that’s a good idea,” Raye affirmed.
Well, one thing to say about all of that, my minor freakout at kinda-sorta moving in with Javi was a whole lot more minor because more evidence had just been laid out for me about him being more amazing.
“Okay, fill me in,” I urged. “What’s going on with you and Cap?” I asked Raye.
She threw a hand toward the steel door. “What more do you need to know with him standing out there, ready to horn in on our action?”
I knew it was that.
“They just want to keep us safe,” I explained.
“That’s what I said,” Willow put in.
“We have tasers. We have brains,” Raye returned. “The last two cases we worked, did we go barreling in guns a’blazin’ to take down the bad guys?” She asked this but didn’t let any of us answer. “No! We called them in, and they took care of it.”