“Please do so with my blessing. Bitch keeps turning up at our house. I blame Reed for fucking her over the summer.”
Storm flinched beside me, grabbing my attention. “What?”
Reed rushed into his defence. “She wasn’t looking for me, Nix, and you know that. She wanted to know why you were a no-show at her party. You slept with her during freshman year, maybe she wanted to repeat those few mind-blowing minutes?”
Nix grunted, ignoring his dig. “It was a friend-with-benefits deal, a hook up, and the girl only blew me. What’s your excuse, Reed?”
“All right, big mouth, leave it,” Reed snapped, darting Nix a death glare before his eyes rested on Storm. “It’s not like you think.”
Her shoulders were rigid, that body language screaming, pissed off and she’d lost some of her usual golden glow. “So, youdidn’thave sex with my best friend?”
Best friend? That was pushing it. I held my tongue and watched the scene continue to unfold.
“Yes, but it was more of a dare, and we were both tanked. It didn’tmeananything.”
Storm took what I would describe as a calming breath and glanced away. “I couldn’t care less who you sleep with, Reed.”
It was clear she was lying.
“From what I heard, there was little sleeping. You bang her, give her the cold shoulder, and then stick your tongue down her throat at Straker’s party last weekend. Kinda giving the girl mixed messages, don’t you think?” Nix sang, carrying it on.
My eyes were drawn to the muscle jerking in Reed’s jaw, “Straker’s doesn’t count. It was truth or dare dickhead. I honoured my dare, and if I recallyoubowed out like a pussy.”
Phoenix shrugged. “I don’t do games played by eighth graders.”
“It’s probably for the best as no one wants to see your donkey dick,” Reed chuntered, sneaking a glance at Storm. She looked like she’d burst into tears any moment.
Fucking truth or dare. That dumbass game always caused loads of drama.
I wasn’t in the room during their game, but I’d heard that Micah had dared Nix to get his cock out. Donkey dick was about right too, we’d never partaken in a dick-measuring contest, but we all knew Phoenix was hung like a baby’s arm with an apple in its hand.The guy could have any female he wanted; then again, we all could, hence the fact that we were all morally bankrupt. Where pussy was concerned anyway.
“It was the gentleman’s thing to do. Give you boys a fighting chance.” Nix said with a wink, patting his chest with a smug as fuck smile.
He was then pelted with food.
FIVE
Glancing over my shoulder towards the doors, I contemplated whether to go and check if Molly was still out in the hallway like Phoenix had said.
I suppress a yawn. I was so tired of their bullshit, but as I was about to push to my feet, Storm’s hand slid over my leg. “Do you want to hang out on Thursday after school? Daddy is staying in the city that night. So, it would just be the two of us.”
The atmosphere around the table switched from playful to not.
“I can’t; I have practice,” I replied. At least I hoped I did. Miller and Rutherford hadn’t threatened they’d bench me for the game while they’d chewed me out at our earlier meeting. Shit, at this rate I would be lucky to make it to the weekend let alone the play offs.
“You could miss practice. How about a few drinks in the hot tub, like old times? I know where Daddy keeps the key to the wine cellar now. And if today is anything to go by, you need to loosen up. I can help you with that,” she purred seductively.
I could tell from his body language that one of my boys was pissed. So, I shot her down and changed the subject.
“Sorry, but it’s a no, Storm. Oh, and Reed, I need a lift on Friday.”
“Why?” he batted back, clearly annoyed.
“My truck is in the shop,” I replied with a belch, banging my fist against my chest.
“Again? Bummer.” My brother smirked before nudging Micah and adding, “That’s Ford for you. Pieces of shit.”
“Suck dick,” I shot back with more aggression than I intended, flipping them both off.
