Page 52 of The Nanny and the Beefcake
“Tell them the good part, Row,” Penny said, beaming at her nerd.
“The astronauts are rooting for Raz to win in the upcoming fight. So at least you’ve got that,” Rowen added as he grinned at Penny.
“It’s pretty great,” Mitch added, pulling out his phone. “They reenacted the vibrator throwing in space using extra PVC tubes. People love it.”
“Is screaming and throwing things a yoga technique?” Charlotte asked.
Speechless, Libby shared a look with Raz. In his eyes, she saw the same question she had.
How had this blown up so quickly?
“We get it,” Raz began. “You’ve seen the video. People floating in space have seen it. But why are you at my house? I don’t mean to be rude, but how the bloody hell did you get in?”
“Obviously, we broke in,” Rowen supplied smoothly. “Scratch that. I hacked in and bypassed the alarm.”
“Now, Raz,” Penny interjected. “I usually stop Rowen before he does anything like this, but we had no other choice. Neither of you would answer your texts.”
“Penny’s right,” Mitch continued. “First, Libby texted her friends, saying that she was getting arrested, and then you texted us and said the same thing. What were we supposed to do?”
Raz scoffed. “Oh, I don’t know—not break into my house.”
Her beefcake had a point. This was going to the extreme. Then again, she would have probably freaked out if Penny, Harper, or Charlotte texted a going-to-jail message, too.
“We went to Libby’s place first, but some lady named Ida lives there now. When did that happen?” Charlotte questioned, then narrowed her gaze. “And what’s that on your shoulder, Libbs?”
Libby stared at the sea of vibrators scattered across the floor before taking in her crusty shoulder. “It’s crow poop.”
“Crow poop?” Rowen, Penny, Charlotte, and Mitch exclaimed.
Libby sighed. “It happened after I got kicked out of my apartment.”
“And what about your meeting for your yoga center?” Charlotte asked, coming to her side.
“That turned out to be a sham. They weren’t looking to invest. It was a joke to meet women.”
Just saying that out loud made her want to throttle the stupid Derricks.
Penny joined Charlotte as the women huddled. “No wonder you went a little crazy, Libbs.”
“And shame on you, Erasmus,” Charlotte said, turning her wrath on the boxer.
“Shame on me? What do you mean?” the man exclaimed.
“Her chi, Raz,” Penny chided, getting in on the Raz bashing.
“And don’t forget about her O,” Charlotte added.
Mitch sucked in a tight breath. “That’s a tough one, Libby.”
“Yeah, the worst,” Rowen agreed.
And the humiliation hits kept coming.
The mortification meter had blown clear off the charts.
“Listen,” Raz explained. “I don’t know how it happened. I never meant tode-chiorde-Oyour friend. But now, we have to make the best of this peculiar situation.”
Peculiar was one way to describe it. Totally freaking insane was another.
