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So why not.
She shook her head in slow-mo, utterly astonished. “You are straight up demented. ”
“You were happy to do something that pissed off your mom the first time I met you. Picking up a guy in a bar when you were supposed to be going to her engagement party…”
“That was before I knewthe guywas going to be my stepbrother!”
I held her gaze, willing her to remember that night. Before she found out who I was… she had to remember how much she’d enjoyed it, right? It wasn’t easy to forget.
I’d fucking tried.
“Think about it,” I told her.
She stared back at me, a mess of responses fighting over her features. Revulsion. Disbelief.
Curiosity?
Memories…
Maybe shewasthinking about it. Her cheeks were flaming pink again.
“You could really have a worse offer, Jolie.”
She shook her head in disbelief again. “Let me see. Your offer is to have sex with me to upset our parents?”
“Sure. Why not?”
“No. Straight up no. That’s twisted.”
I gave her a slow, twisted smile. “I don’t see a problem.”
“That’s because, as usual,youare the fucking problem, Shane.”
She got up, scooped a spoonful of whipped cream from her dish—and splatted it on my chest. Then she walked out.
ChapterNine
Jolie
“You want me to fuck Shane Madrigal!?!”
My beautiful twin cousins, seated across from me in the limo, gave each other a look. There was Dani, the ruthlessly self-interested, contentedly single one and there was Danica, the kind, caring, happily married and generally much saner one who would hopefully save me right now.
Because the shit that just came out of Dani’s mouth was shocking, even for her.
After I’d decorated Shane with whipped cream and left him in the pool house this morning, I’d left my cousins lounging by the pool, angrily gobbled down my berry breakfast, then got the hell out of that house and went to kill time at a nearby café until Mom came to pick me up in one of Jacob’s many luxury cars with his driver.
We’d picked up Aunt Madeleine and drove up to Whistler for the final walk-through of the wedding venue. Mom had harassed the staff with questions and we’d given them our final guest headcount—which I had to fudge slightly, since I still didn’t have Shane’s RSVP.
We’d then had lunch and headed back to town, mission accomplished.
However, as soon as they’d dropped me off at Dani’s apartment, where I was supposed to meet up with my cousins to go for dinner, I found out that the guys were throwing a bachelor party for Jacob tonight.
Because apparently after Shane had emerged from the pool house to find my beautiful cousins lounging by the pool, he’d sat his ass down to chat with them and told them so.
And I basically flipped out that the ladies weren’t throwing a bachelorette party for my mom, and that I hadn’t even thought of organizing one.
According to her maid of honor, Aunt Mireille, whom I’d then gotten on the phone, Mom didn’t want one.
