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That earned a cackle. “Excellent! Okay. Next up—favorite color?”
“Didn’t realize I’d get a pop quiz on this phone call.”
“Oh, yes, you did. It’s why you called me and not Noel.” She had a point. “So. Answer me, Allen.”
“She’d say red, but it’s actually purple.” Growing up sandwiched in brothers, El tended to lean into her masculine unless she was around her sisters, or it was just us. I got to see those pieces of her that James and Rhyett didn’t.
“Not even gonna ask. Flowers? Shells? What’s she like?”
“Uh, roses, and those great big balls.”
“Great. Big. Balls?”
“Oh, fuck off.”
The cackle crackling over the speaker was absolutely maniacal. “Come on, you gotta give me that one.”
“Did you and Noel share an egg at one point?” Seriously, no wonder these two were best friends. Double trouble.
Her laughter was renewed, breath a little shallow as she said, “I wish. Honestly, we’re probably closer this way. Come on though, stay focused. You gotta have something beyond balls.”
Smirking, I added, “The big, soft, fluffy ones.” Brex’s ensuing laugh seemed to earn one from Quinn, the happy little coos making me smile. Questioning myself, I guessed, “Peonies, I think?”
“Ooooh, we don’t have those here. They die too fast to ship. But they’re awfully pretty.”
“I think they’re out of season?”
“So stick with roses. Can’t go wrong if she likes red. Now, what’s something you can do together?”
“Umm…”
“Come on Allen, you’re in Sin fucking City. Your options are unlimited.”
“I uh…I think I have an idea.”
“Well hurry up. Out with it.”
TEN
ELORA
“This means war,” Alice chirped from where I’d propped her sweet face on the table.
“Yeah!” Max said with gusto. “What the fuck Broad-dick?” The rest of his words were drowned out by our collective laughter.
“I don’t think that image is helping our girl,” Mara noted, smirking from the corner chair where she was nursing baby Nate.
“Fine, poor pun—but I’m not wrong. He’s being a real prick.”
“I think he’s jealous,” Mara stated flatly.
“Of Pierce,” I pointed out with an eye roll.
“The man is fine,” Max said, shrugging. “Thanks for that, by the way.”
“Anytime.”
“That hair!” He swooned, with a dramatic eye roll.
