Page 97 of He Who Sleeps

"Good. Then let's get back to the party." He smiled and kissed her forehead.

Entering the living room, she saw Leo and Jack had pulled out desserts and were eating from the pies themselves, spraying forkfuls with whipped cream. “Look at the two of you.” She giggled. “Aren’t we supposed to be researching?”

"No," Finn said firmly. "This is supposed to be a holiday weekend. Enough of the books and the theories. We should be stuffing ourselves silly and relaxing. Things will get serious soon enough. There's time to figure out the history lessons afterwards."

"Amen to that," Leo said, stuffing another piece of pie in his face with a broad grin.

“You want some pie, baby?” Jack asked, brandishing a fork full of pie at her. Sitting, she let him feed her. “Open,” he said and she did, and he sprayed cream into her mouth. She squealed and then laughed.

“That was a lot!”

“I think you have taken a bit more than that in your mouth,” Emerson commented from his seat at the couch.

"Damn right, she has," Leo smirked.

“Jerks.” Shaking her head, she grabbed her wine glass, Rix filling it back up. “Well, dinner is done, desserts are being demolished...”

“There are two more pies in the kitchen,” Jack offered helpfully around a forkful of pie.

“So what else to do?” she asked with a grin.

“What would you normally do?” Emerson asked.

She shrugged. “With my girls? Drink a bunch of wine. Play some stupid game like Truth or Dare or Never Have I Ever or cards...”

"Please tell me we have a copy ofCards Against Humanity,"Leo said, perking up. "I'm going to make you laugh so hard you'll never recover."

“I didn’t bring any,” Emerson offered. “Do any of us own that?”

She shook her head. “I didn’t bring any, either. We could watch a movie?” She wasn’t sure they were really the kinda guys to play Truth or Dare with, and certainly not Never Have I Ever..

"I'm not sure..." Leo made a face. "How are we all supposed to snuggle with you at the same time? There's only one of you and seven of us."

“Then I guess it’s Truth or Dare,” Rix said with a smirk.

"You sure you're ready to go down that particular rabbit hole, cupcake?" Finn said with a grin.

She arched a brow. “I wasn’t the one that suggested it.”

“Um, you did mention it.”

“But I didn’t suggest it,” she insisted. “And anyway, you do realize that a game of Truth or Dare is not going to hold up to what we normally do, right?”

“Sounds like a challenge.” Rix smirked.

"Personally, I'm all up for chasing you all around the garden while you're naked, but it's maybe a bit cold," Leo sighed.

"We kind of suck at group activities," Carter laughed. "What about Charades? That doesn't require any equipment, and we could do it in teams."

"How is it that Finn's the leader, but you're the daddy?" Easton laughed, coming into the room.

“No one is chasing her anywhere but me,” Rix growled, desire flashing in his eyes.

Shivering slightly, she settled on the chair and a half alone, pulling her legs up to settle under her. She looked at Carter. “So should I call you Daddy? That going to be a thing now?”

"You can call me whatever you want, Princess," Carter said, heat in his eyes.

"And I'll chase whoever I want," Leo snarled right back at Rix. "Try and fucking stop me."

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