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Lexie was so right though, it did seem like Rick had some issues with listening to what Maria had to say. Hell, this morning he hadn’t even given her a chance to talk. Stupid men.
“Men suck.” She scowled at her drink. Which was her... what? Third one? Fourth one? Shit, she was starting to lose track.
“Ha, try living with one of them.” Belying her statement, Angel grinned. “Actually, right now, I technically live with three of them, but even combined they’re easier to deal with than Adam.”
“That’s because you don’t live with men, you live with minions,” Olivia said, grinning. “Anytime you want to send them over here, feel free. I could use some minions around this place.”
“Oh Lord...” Hilary rolled her eyes. “You would eat Sam alive, Olivia.”
“Yeah, but Q could probably go toe to toe with me.” Her tone was surprisingly wistful.
Maria looked at the redhead curiously. “You want a guy who can go toe to toe with you?”
“Yep. Right up until I put him on his knees.” The redhead grinned wickedly.
Drunken giggles broke out around the room. Yeah, Maria could see that. Olivia was a Domme who liked a challenge, kind of like how Angel challenged Adam and Lexie challenged Patrick. Hilary and Jessica seemed more sedate. What did Rick want? Maria had a sinking feeling she was kind of a challenge; did Rick want someone who was more like Jessica? Or was she only thinking that because she knew they had once had sex?
“I need more booze,” Hilary announced, pushing Jessica off of her and distracting Maria from her thoughts. The brunette protested, flopping down behind Hilary’s back as the blonde leaned forward to refill her drink. Picking up a bottle of salted caramel vodka, she gave it a loving little rub on the side before unscrewing the cap. “Hello vodka... goodbye dignity...”
“Dignity is overrated,” Jessica said, pumping her fist in the air so it was just visible over Hilary’s shoulder, her voice slightly muffled from being smushed between Hilary and the love seat. Maria had to laugh, and her insecurities about Jessica faded again. She was just being stupid about that and she needed to get over it.
Not surprisingly, two and a half hours later, Maria was drunker than she’d been in a really, really long time. Somehow she’d ended up on the floor with Lexie and Angel behind her. Lexie’s head was in Angel’s lap while Angel played with her hair and Lexie played with Maria’s, utterly, drunkenly fascinated by the little curls at the back of Maria’s neck. Olivia was still on her throne, except now she was kind of sprawled on it and was drinking straight from an almost empty bottle of Jack. The last time she’d gone for a refill she’d realized it was almost gone and had decided to just take the bottle.
“Hey... hey... anyone got a camera?” Olivia held up the bottle, grinning like a loon. “I need a drink of me finishing this!”
Blinking owlishly, Hilary peered at her. “A drink?”
“I mean a picture!”
“Maybe you shouldn’t finish that.”
Giving Hilary a one-fingered salute, Olivia brought the bottle to her lips and swallowed the last couple of gulps. Maria was in awe. “Hot damn.”
“Did anyone take a picture?” Olivia looked around at all of them. None of them had moved and she scowled. “You subbies are useless. Useless I say! Spankings for everyone!” Even she couldn’t keep a straight face through the threat though, and they all ended up laughing hysterically.
Lexie was laughing so hard she nearly fell off the couch.
“Whoa!” Maria rolled the other woman back. Even though she was “drunk as a skunk,” as Hilary had said earlier, Lexie managed to keep her glass held straight up so she didn’t spill a single drop.
Sniffing at the cup, Maria smelled cinnamon. “You’re not drinking straight Goldschlagger are you?
“Oh God no,” Lexie said, pushing herself up to a mostly sitting position. Even though Maria’s vision was kind of swirly and fuzzy, she could see Lexie was just as bad off. “It’s Goldschlagger, Malibu, and triple sec.”
She said it so reasonably Maria didn’t even catch the issue until Angel smacked Lexie on the arm. “That’s like, three times the alcohol.”
“There’s ice in it...” Smiling, Lexie took another sip of her drink.
“You puke, you clean it up,” Olivia said regally. Lexie just gave her a thumbs up.
“You’re so tiny,” Maria said, watching in wonderment. “How can you drink so much?”
“Lots of practice...” Lexie said, but instead of sounding snarky she almost sounded a little sad. “My guy friends all still see me as a kid, I can’t get into the fun parts of Stronghold and Patrick won’t fuck me... what else do I have to do?”
Maria patted Lexie’s knee comfortingly, because everyone else was too busy choking. “I’m sorry honey. I’m not getting laid either.”
“You didn’t get laid last night?” Jessica sounded shocked.
“Nope. Was totally okay with it too, but Rick said he didn’t want to do it there... not that he wants to do it anywhere now. Fucker wouldn’t even talk to me this morning. I wanna do it. But not if he doesn’t want me.”
