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My interest was piqued, however, when I happened to pass the living room window and saw the guys taking a water break out by the moving truck. They'd taken their shirts off and were pouring the water over their heads and chests.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! They were all fine-looking men, but Jax? He took it to an entirely different level. Those abs! And look at that ink covering his upper arm! As Jax moved, what appeared to be some kind of bird on his left arm almost looked like it was breathing as the muscle beneath it flexed.
"Catch anything with your mouth hanging open?" Jade crept up behind me. "Oh, wow. Now I really wish I'd been the one to go to his office. I'd have been willing to make a contribution of my own to him."
I nudged her with my elbow. "Stop being so crude."
She crossed her arms and turned to face me. I did my best to ignore her by moving some furniture that had been left in the center of the room, but it was obvious she was studying me.
"Interesting."
"What?"
"He's different. You really like him.”
"It doesn't matter. He made his feelings clear enough."
"Did you?"
"Did I what?"
"Did you make your feelings clear to him?"
I kept working so I didn’t have to look at her. I grabbed a lamp, plugged it in, and placed it on an end table before moving on to unwrap some pictures that I placed on their mantle. At this rate, I'd have the entire room organized if Jade kept up her evaluation.
I paused to brush some hair out of my face. "Why are you pursuing this? I'm trying to move on. In fact, there wasn't that much to move on from, so I don't understand why you're pushing me on this."
"You forget you confessed to me about him. I know you were on the verge of opening yourself up to someone for the first time in a while. I want to make sure you're honestly good, not just faking it."
I blew out a breath and looked at the ceiling. "Look. I'm good, okay? I'm grateful he stopped it before I started to have real feelings. He could have strung me along. He did an honorable thing."
"Okay."
"Really? You'll drop this now?"
"Drop what?" Maggie's voice chimed from the entranceway. "Please tell me it wasn't my grandmother's crystal vase!"
"No," Jade answered. "Just our friend here needs to get laid and fast."
"Oh, good lord. I'm going to go pray for your soul," I groaned and moved around them, eager to leave the room.
"You know, there's a couple of guys at my work who are pretty hot. I could set you up," Maggie called after me.
"No!" Although I trusted Maggie's taste more than Jade's, at this point, I could use a break from men. And a break from my friends might not be a bad idea either.
"We're just looking out for you, honey. Maybe you could give them a chance and go out. Maybe even...you know. A girl has needs, too."
Oh, my god! Sweet, sweet Maggie couldn't bring herself to say the words like Jade could, but that she even thought it spoke volumes. Did I have "desperate" scrolled on my forehead?
I threw my hands in the air and spun back around to face them. "Enough!" I almost shouted. "My sex life is fine, thank you very much. I can get laid all by myself. Well, you know, not all by myself, that sort of defeats the point. But you know what I mean. I can find someone to take care of my needs”—I made air quotes—"without your interference. In fact, I'm meeting someone tomorrow night. Maybe while I'm there, I'll—"
Someone cleared a throat. I choked on whatever I was going to say, at once grateful that someone had stopped my word vomit and horrified that someone other than Maggie and Jade might have heard it.
I raised my eyebrow at them. Maggie at least had the decency to look embarrassed. Not Jade, however. She smirked and looked over my shoulder.
"I think I can speak for all of us when I say we didn't need to hear that," a masculine voice stated.
I whirled to find all three guys, Derek, Paul, and Jax staring at me. Derek was openly laughing after his comment, Paul appeared to be biting his cheek, but his eyes were twinkling, and Jax, well, he stared hard at me before he scowled and put the box he was carrying down a little harder than necessary. Then he turned and stomped off with five pairs of eyes staring after him.
