Page 89 of A Little Bit Reckless
She was my sister, and I hugged her so hard. Holding her hand, I noticed something metal on her finger, herringfinger.
Sloane noticedI noticedand slid her hand back into the sleeve of Dorian’s hoodie. My mouth parted, shocked, and Sloane pressed a finger to her lips.
Slowly, she showed me the ring on her hand. It was a diamond nearly the size of a baseball. Well, not really, but it was freaking huge.
Sloane pressed her finger to her mouth again before hiding her hand in her sleeve once more. She smiled. “He asked the night of his draft party.”
Oh… my…
“We’re telling everyone soon,” she said, hugging me again, and I had to fight from squealing since Aspen and Fawn were with us on the bleachers. The two were watching the boys play football too but were distracted as they chatted about Aspen’s tour.
I hugged my sister back. I expected a story soon about her engagement.
“God, I love when they do this,” Aspen said, and Sloane and I faced the field. Thatcher was taking his shirt off. He tossed it before getting back into the game, and Ares and Dorian did the same.
That got Fawn and Sloane’s attention, the two of them sighing. Aspen did too which made me laugh, but I stopped when my eyes locked on to Wells and Bru. They’d been shirtless from the jump, beautiful, but now, they had their attention on me. Bru waved, and Wells winked. Wells even gave me a set of heart hands before playing again, which was crazy.
It was crazy wonderful.
“You okay?” Sloane asked me. We were taking a cooler of drinks to my brother’s car. The guys finished playing football, and Sloane, Aspen, Fawn, and I were helping load up the stuff we brought. The girls had packed a picnic earlier in the day, and we all ate on the field before the guys started their game.
It’d been nice, but I got killer heartburn after eating one of the sandwiches. That’d subsided, but now, I was feeling a little nauseous for some reason. I had bouts of nausea lately, but I figured it’d been all the stress I’d been going through. I’d never had a strong stomach.
“I just have a little stomachache,” I told Sloane. We’d had to slow to a stop with the cooler after the world kind of tilted, and my stomach flipped. I released a breath. “I’m okay.”
“You sure?” she asked, looking concerned, but I was. We picked up the pace and met Thatcher and Aspen at his car. The trunk of his SUV was open, and it was no surprise the two were basically making out under the open trunk.
Sloane made a gagging noise when she and I came around, and I was sure I looked like I’d sucked a lemon. It wasn’t the first time I’d come across my brother all over a girl. I loved Aspen of course, but he was basically mauling her.
Looking embarrassed, Aspen attempted to let go of my brother, but he wasn’t having it. He pretty much strengthened his hold around her and flipped Sloane off which made her laugh. My brother was lucky Dorian wasn’t around. He was really protective of Sloane and probably would have hit him. Dorian was still on the field gathering stuff with our other friends.
My brother did drop his arms from around Aspen when he saw what Sloane and I had though, a cooler. Immediately, he took it.
“Why are you guys carrying this thing? It’s heavy as fuck,” he said but didn’t look fazed picking it up himself. I wasn’t surprised since he probably bench-pressed something twice that size if not more daily.
“Um, we may be girls, but we’re perfectly capable,” Sloane said, which was the same argument she actually gave her boyfriend before we took the cooler. Bru and Wells had headed off to the restroom which was probably the only reason why I hadn’t been in the same argument. They probably wouldn’t have let me take the cooler either, but I wanted to help.
Sloane was like me in that regard, and Dorian definitely argued with her about the cooler. When it came to an argument though, Sloane was a spitfire. She easily won, and Dorian gave up. He said we could take one of the lighter coolers while he and Ares got the other two. Fawn was getting some of the lighter things from our picnic and said she’d catch up with Sloane and me.
My brother frowned. “I’m aware you’re capable, but you don’t have to do shit like that. You got us guys.”
Sloane lifted her eyes. “Yeah, okay.”
Thatcher looked like he wanted to say something else, but Aspen patted his big chest. She calmed him down like Black Widow and the Hulk, and it was so funny to see. My brother was so in love.
He wasn’t the only one, and the need to see my guys suddenly hit me. I hadn’t gotten to spend nearly enough time with them today. We’d been with our friends, and really, the last time we’d beenalonewas after the dinner the other night with our parents. We did have plans for the three of us to get together tonight though.
The guys said they wanted to date me.
I didn’t know how this would work, me and the two of them. Whatever was going to happen, I was open to things. Especially sexually.
A surge pulsed between my thighs thinking about that. I quickly got distracted by the thoughts, and Sloane actually had to get my attention. I passed my dirty thoughts off by asking to see her ring again. We’d left Thatcher and Aspen. They were basically mauling each other again beneath the open trunk, so Sloane and I stepped away from the SUV a bit while we waited for our other friends.
I admired Sloane’s ring again while we waited. I couldn’t believe another one of my friends was engaged. Ares and Fawn were engaged too.
“It’s so beautiful, Sloane,” I said to her, studying the sparkling ring.
Sloane sighed. “He did pretty good, didn’t he? He said it was one of his grandmothers’.”
