Total pages in book: 77
Estimated words: 72990 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 72990 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
“Listen to you. So worried about her long-term relationship success and happiness. And what about us isn’t decent?”
“Maybe we could ask for something else in return,” Dalton says, looking up thoughtfully, completely avoiding my question.
“Oh yeah? And what would that be?” I roll my shoulders as a grin lights up my brother’s face like New Year’s fireworks.
“Maybe she could cook us dinner. She cooks like her momma, you know. Travis told me.”
It’s at this point that I know my brothers have lost all their fucking sense. “You’re seriously suggesting that a girl like Gabby will not only want to take us up on our offer of a three-sausage buffet, but also want to make us dinner in return. What kind of world are you living in because it isn’t the real one?”
Blake turns to the closet, pulling open the door before he swivels back to me and grins. “I’m living in the world where I know what’s in Gabby’s diary. She wants us. All of us.”
I glance at the door to the bathroom, my mouth dropping open at Blake’s admission, wondering what Gabby’s doing in her room right now. My cock stirs at how close that sweet pussy is. How close she is. I adjust my cock who’s come so close to paradise but has to remain confined to my snug boxer briefs. “You read her diary?” I ask with disgust.
“Not me. Travis. He thought it was hilarious that she had a teenage crush on the three of us.”
“That’s because he never imagined we’d do anything about it.”
“She’s not a kid anymore,” Dalton says. “And Blake’s right. If she’s that thirsty, and it’s not us, it could be someone a whole lot worse.”
“That’s it, bro. Sell yourself,” Blake laughs, tossing Travis’s Yoda pillow at Dalton’s head.
“We care about her, right?” Dalton rubs his beard, as a flush paints the skin over the top of his cheeks. “We’d do good by her.”
“Hell yeah,” Blake agrees, pulling out a pile of the sketchiest looking dirty magazines I’ve ever seen and dropping them on the bed. “Travis doesn’t need to know because there won’t be feelings involved. At least, not from her side. The diary said nothing about our winning personalities. She’s just hooked up on our ripped bodies and rugged good looks. This might be our only chance to know what it’d be like to have a girl like Gabby.”
I stare at my brothers, blinking slowly as their crazy, harebrained idea settles around us. If it’s not us, it could be someone else who doesn’t care for and respect her like we do. It could be so much worse.
The one-eighty my mind has done over the past few minutes unnerves me, but what can I say? I’ve had a crush on Gabby since before I even knew what it was. And if we can be what she needs, even for a few months, that would be more than I’ve ever hoped for.
“Who’s going to ask her?”
Blake and Dalton nod their heads, grinning like I just offered them a case of beer and a monster-sized sirloin. “You,” they both say simultaneously.
Now I’m sure they’ve lost their minds.
2
GABRIELLA
“They did what?” Ellie gasps, her hands flying to her mouth and her eyes bugging out.
“Do I need to say it again?”
“They came into your room while you were…” Ellie wiggles her eyebrows and I cringe all over again.
“While my vibe was doing what vibes do best,” I say, groaning as the image of Kain, Blake, and Dalton barreling into my room floods my mind in all its terrible glory.
“Why were they there? I don’t get it.”
“Apparently my asshole brother wanted them to clear his room to help Mom before she redecorates. He’s never been thoughtful before, so my guess is he had something sketchy in there that he wanted to hide.”
“Probably a monster porn collection, although who has physical porn anymore when you can access it all online?”
I sip my black coffee and lick my lips. “My brother has always been a collector. He started with comics and probably downgraded to smutty mags.”
“It’s always the quiet ones.” Ellie smiles and glances over her shoulder at a rowdy table of football players. I know she’s probably missing her own rowdy team. It was weird when she wasn’t around last year and I’m bummed that we won’t graduate at the same time, but it’s awesome she’s managed to come back and finish her studies, despite having a baby and a whole new life with her three sexy stepbrothers.
“Yeah, well, my three nosy neighbors left with their mouths hanging open.”
“I bet they did. It’s not every day you stumble across your friend’s sister with her legs open.”
I cringe again and then shake my head, frustrated. Yeah, it wasn’t ideal to be caught out like that, but I’m a woman with needs that I’m perfectly able to take care of. I shouldn’t be embarrassed about it. I’m sure their right hands are busy most nights if they’re not dating. The thought of those three fine men handling their junk sends heat pooling in places I’d rather weren’t warm right now.