Roxie was there too, though she seemed to be having a ball.“This is so typical,” her friend said.“You should’ve stayed with us at the house last night.We might have missed all the fun.”
Rourke was in a fancy hotel suite.Fancier than the room she’d been in all week.Roxie, Jane, and Lilya had gone back to their house with their guys after the party.
She’d stayed late, until the last guest left, and Rourke had been with her all the way.
“Where are the cops?”
“The Zs have them in the hall,” Lilya said.“Zach and Zairn.”
“We have experience,” Roxie said, opening her arms to drop onto the middle of the couch.“A lot of experience with law enforcement in LA.At least it wasn’t me getting arrested this time.”
“You got arrested in LA?”
“Twice so far,” Roxie said, showing the peace sign.“Zairn enjoys bailing me out.It’s foreplay.”
“And there was the time you went missing,” Jane said.“Had all of us stressed out.”
“That stress got you laid, Little Miss,” Roxie said, pulling Jane onto the couch with her.
“Not that night!”
“I don’t get enough credit for getting you and Knox together,” Roxie said, finger combing the length of Jane’s hair down her back.“You’re so pretty.”
“I never heard how you and Kintyre met,” she said to Lilya.
The expectant mom was eating toast from somewhere.“He was naked, commandeered me to his plot.From there, I guess it was inevitable.”
And she was none the wiser.
“Lola!”
Came a call at the same time the door swung shut.
“Yes, my love?”
“We’re getting the hell out of LA.Leaving LA and never coming back.”He and Kintyre appeared and nodded in greeting at Rourke.“What is with you and this city?”
“This one wasn’t me.But I do miss New York.Should we stop in Chicago on the way back home?”
“If we stop in Chicago, we’ll never leave again.Though your dad wanted to talk investment opportunities.”
“You are not investing money in my family.Not in my sister’s boyfriend or my dad.”
“Actually, he wanted to invest with me.”
“Stop taking money from my dad!”
“I didn’t take the wedding money.We talked about it in private.And I have a guy who can double his yield.Triple it.”
“Since when were you a shady shyster?”
“We pay Dunlap to be our shady shyster,” he said.“You mean a grifter.”
“I mean a scammer.You’re scamming my father.”
“By marrying his daughter and ensuring he’ll have grandchildren?”
“You’re too friendly with my dad,” Roxie said, suspicious.“You talk all the time.”Her friend gestured around.“Look at all these people, all these guy friends you have.Take their money.Call them.Talk to them.”
