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When Griff’scell rang a few minutes later, he picked it up and held it out so the others could see it was Jess who was calling him. “Hi, baby.”
“Hi, Griff. We wanted to make you guys something for dinner tonight. Spaghetti. Wanna come over around five?”
“Let me ask the guys, we’re eating lunch right now,” Griff said. “Hey, fellas’ the ladies would like to invite us for dinner this evening. It’s spaghetti.”
“Count me in,” Ethan said.
“Me too,” Phoenix said. “And tell Cait, I can’t wait to see her. I’ve got something to ask her.”
“Did you hear that, baby?” Griff asked.
“I did hear that. So, we’ll see you then. Why don’t you bring wine?”
“Anything you want, baby. I can’t wait to get my hands on you,” he said with a growling sound.
“Oh, but you will,” she said with a giggle then hung up.
“The girl is the devil,” Griff said as he put his phone away.
“Can you imagine using sex to get yourself a husband to pay your bills for you?” Ethan asked as he slammed his beer mug on the table. “The audacity!”
“So, how’re you going to make Kel not want to trap you in a marriage and still get her into bed?” Phoenix asked because he had no idea what to do about Cait.
“I’m still thinking on that one, Phoenix,” Ethan said. “Let’s face it, we’ll have to dig deep to make them believe we’re not worthy of being their husbands. We’re all catches.”
“I just can’t believe my little Jess is this devious. She seems so sweet and innocent,” Griff said.
“Well, the heartless oldest sister who had her heart broken, who’s become a shrew, has led her sisters down a dark path. I just hope the younger two see the light before they follow in her footsteps,” Ethan said. “And what a great actress she is!”
“All three of them are,” Phoenix said as he shook his head. “So damn honest looking and talking like they’re good girls. They are not good girls!”
“No, they are not!” Griff said then finished his beer. “I think I need a nap before I see Jess again. I don’t know how I’m going to hide the fact that I know about their terrible plan.”
“Me neither,” Phoenix said then finished his beer. “Let’s go. My head hurts.”
“Aye, mine too,” Ethan agreed. “That woman has let me down so completely. And to think that I contemplated ending the bet.”
“You did?” Griff asked. “How come you didn’t say anything about that? I’ve thought about it too.”
“Me too,” Phoenix said. “Especially since yesterday.”
“Well, I wasn’t sure about it. I wanted a couple more days to go by before I said anything,” Ethan admitted. “But now I’ll never stop the bet. One of them will make one of us the winner then we’ll dump all three of the money grubbing whores!”
“Whores is a bit much,” Griff said. “Let’s just call them gold diggers and let that be their brand.”
“Yeah, they aren’t whores, Ethan,” Phoenix said as he got up. “But they are liars.”
“They are that,” Griff agreed. “But Jess is still naïve and pretty innocent.”
“For a woman who’s trying to get a guy to marry her to pay off her debts,” Ethan said with raised brows. “Don’t let the sirens fool you. And I think we have a better shot at getting them into bed now, anyway.”
“After we marry them, we do,” Phoenix said with a sigh.
Ethan smiled as they walked outside. “Stipulations could be made, you know. Put a cheap, fake ring on their fingers then tell them we want to marry them but have to know if the sex will be good before we go all the way through with it.”
“Genius!” Griff said and the three high-fived one another.
