Page 53 of For Pleasure Or Worse

Echo

Sam and I are cuddling

Me

You sure about that?

Wink

Put me down for a plus one

Echo

Who the fuck are you bringing, bro?

Angelo

If I say I'm bringing a plus one do I get two dinners?

Me

No

Wink

Don’t worry about it

Echo

I’ll find out

Pike

I didn’t know you had a girlfriend Sam

Wink

I don’t

Angelo

Doesn't Natalia have like three sisters?

Echo

That's what I said!

Easter was tomorrow,and for the first time in several weeks I was spending a Saturday morning at home instead of dedicating half of my day to the cyber security business. The second half of my Saturdays were blocked out for getting as much filming done with Tally as possible in what little time we had after Mom and Dad went to bed. Even then, what we could do was limited with the noise level, and the quality we were producing was nowhere near what Natalia was known for. The grit was gone, passion completely and utterly sucked out of the sequences. Apart from that, there was another problem: Recently, theonlytimes we had sex were while on camera.

Me

Sister-in-laws are off-limits

Angelo

You're a party pooper

My phone pinged with a picture of Tyler flipping off the camera and I snickered, kicking myself back further into the soft recliner. The house was quiet. Tally was out at the grocery storegetting a few last-minute things for the holiday, and Dad had gone out to bingo with Gino Barry from next door. Mom had been milling around the kitchen cooking the last time I noticed her, but peering up from my seat I realized that was no longer the case. A hot, unsettling wave licked up my spine and my hair stood on end at my neck. I turned my head over my shoulder.

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