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“You still messing with her?” Jude asks.
“You guys were flirting? I thought you guys broke it off?”
“Who’s Baylor?” Mom and Lucy ask at the same time.
Giving Jace the look of death because I’ve decided that I am, for sure, gonna kill him, I shake my head. “No, I’m not messing with Skylar anymore. That ship has sailed, and Baylor is, um, a friend.”
“No, they are dating but don’t want to tell anyone,” Jace says offhandedly as he falls back onto his stomach to go back to work. “It’s all a bunch of hoopla, if you ask me. They get in a room together, and you can tell they are like sticky icky in love.”
“What? Jayden Mitchell, is that true?” Mom asks me, stunned. “You haven’t spoken of her.”
“She’s still keeping it a secret?” Jude asks.
“And she wanted to fight Skylar? Really? Skylar is scary,” Claire adds, and I let out an annoyed breath.
“Guys, it’s not a big deal. Let it go,” I sa
y, shaking my head. “Mom, really, I told you about her a long time ago.”
“But I haven’t met her!”
“You will,” I promise.
“Yeah, Mom, don’t worry,” Jace says. “But she’s great. A little rough around the edges, kinda moody, and acts more like a dude than a chick, but she’s cool, and man, can she play some hockey.”
“Oh! Number fifty? Baylor Moore?” Mom squeals. “Is that her?”
“I really don’t like you,” I say to Jace, and he grins back at me, unfazed by my declaration of hatred as I nod. “Yeah, Mom, that’s her.”
“Oh, she’s adorable.”
“Is she? I want to meet her,” Claire pouts and Jude hugs her tighter.
“She’s cool, and she punched the sh-crap out of Jayden in Florida,” Jude teases. “That’s when I knew she was awesome.”
“She hit you?” Lucy giggles. “She sounds amazing.”
“Oh yeah, she’s a beast,” Jace adds with a nod just as the doorbell rings. He pops up. “That’s Markus.”
“Oh! Let me get the ham out,” Mom says, rushing to the kitchen, and when Jace passes by me, I trip him.
“Jerk!” he yells back at me, and I glare.
“I’m gonna murder you,” I promise, and he shrugs.
“Get in line. I’m sure Lucy and Jude want to help.”
Looking at my older siblings, I shake my head. “We didn’t kick his ass enough.”
“Nope, we were more concerned with each other,” Lucy agrees.
“Yeah, we should hold him down and kick his ass,” Jude decides, and we all agree, just as Claire’s eyes widen and her head falls to the side.
“What’s wrong with y—” I start, but I don’t finish because a pair of hands come over my eyes. “What the hell?” Not because I don’t know who it is, but because I do. Her scent gave her away.
“Oooh, you said a cuss word,” Angie reminds me, and I reach in my pocket pulling out a bill, praying it isn’t my hundred-dollar bill. I feel her snatch it, and then I reach back and take ahold of Baylor’s ass as she squeals, moving out of my grip and unmasking my eyes. When I look back at her, a grin pulls at my lips as I stand to go to her. She, of course, looks hot as hell in a pair of jeans with boots that go up to her knees. Wearing a tight red sweater that clings to her breasts, her red lips shine as she grins back at me.
“What are you doing here?” I say, closing the distance between us and wrapping my arms around her as her eyes go wide. But I don’t care. I need to feel her against me.
