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We look at each other, and she chuckles

I’m sure she can see the need in my eyes, while hers only hold a playfulness I enjoy as she covers that sexy mouth of hers that’s still full

I’d like to fill it up with so else

“Sorry” She fights a s in for another bite

“Moan like that again and—”

The ringing ofit fro

My feet stop lare at the screen

He never calls

“You can answer that if you need to,” Demi says and I look to her “I can walk ahead”

No

I hit ignore, shoving it inwhere we know the others will be

My dad calls three more times between the walk there and the end of the ride

We’re back with the group and entering the hotel lobby when it rings again

“Da you up?” Trent whispers “Is it Josie?”

I scoff and glance around to make sure nobody is in earshot “It’s my dad”

“Whoa” His eyes widen “Why you think he’s calling?”

I frown “I don’t know Could be about ht now If not that, then it’s about the fight with the fuckhead in the locker room”

“He’s been watching you guys all day, you know,” he says, referring to Alex

“Good Let him think he can take her, it’ll be that much sweeter when she decides she don’t want him”

“And if he goes in nohile she still does, or if she keeps on wanting him, then what?”

I shoveacross the room where Demi is “Then I find a reason to force her to stay”

“Blackmail?”

I look to my friend “If I have to”

Trent shakes his head with a sigh “You need to be careful, Nic For real”

“I told you to let me worry about this”

“I’ the subject “You goin’ to your rooht over to the party area?”

I look to Des so she can slide off, ending the piggyback ride she was giving her

“D,” I call

She says so half over her shoulder She bu at him briefly when he chuckles

I frown, pulling her attention back to oin’ to your room first?”