“Shit,” Noah sighs looking down at me. “you should go with her.”
“Why? You want me to screw her until she can’t remember her name?”
He rolls his eyes as Rivers looks longingly after her. “Just go and cheer her up,” he tells me.
“Aye, aye, Captain.”
With that, I hurry after Tully and reach her just in time for us to both climb up into her Jeep and speed away.
“You ok?” I ask as we rocket down the street towards her place.
She breaks into uncontrollable laughter. “Yeah,” she says with a beaming grin. “More than ok. That was so much fun and their faces! Holy shit, did you see that?”
“Wait….what? I thought you were pissed?”
“Hardly,” she scoffs. “Trust me, I’ve kissed much worse than that.” She looks across at me with a sly grin. ‘You know, he wasn’t all that bad. Added a bit of tongue, the dirty bastard.”
I roll my eyes, wishing I could burn the image of Principal Evans’ tongue from my mind. “So, what’s with the whole storming off, needing to wash out your mouth, and get ‘drunk’ thing?”
She grins across at me again. “Good, huh?” she chuckles. “Now the boys think I’ve crossed some imaginary, moral line to save their asses, and they’re going to suck up to me for the next few days. Just you watch. It’s going to be fucking awesome. Anything I want is mine.”
“Are you shitting me?” I laugh. “You played them?”
“Sure did,” she says proudly. “I sure fucking did.”
Chapter 2
“You know I love you, right Tullz?” Noah says, grabbing his sister and wrapping her up in a massive bear hug that has me raging with jealousy even though I know, that no matter what, I’ll be in those arms as soon as he releases her.
“Get off me, you big turd,” Tully groans, trying to pull herself free from her twin brother, though naturally, she has no luck at all, which is when Rivers joins in on the torture. “Noooooo.”
The boys’ wicked chuckles have me falling back into the couch, watching her torture session with amusement as she gets smothered. Usually, I’d be more than happy to dive in and save Tully from their wicked ways, but not today. After all, she played them. Played me. She deserves a little takedown.
Though, it’s not like they know she played them. This is just the boys’ way of showing their love and gratitude for her sticking her tongue down the principal’s throat to save our asses. No matter how annoying they need to be about it or how much they hated watching it go down.
Tully somehow gets her hands upon Noah’s chest before giving him a hard shove, but all that does is send her backward into Rivers, whose arms curl more firmly around her, locking her in tight. “You two are such dickheads,” she groans.
“Don’t act like you don’t love it,” Rivers murmurs in her ear, making her momentarily melt back into him before she realizes what she’s doing and sorts herself out.
Tully turns in Rivers’ arms, pressing herself into him and smiling up at his devilishly handsome face with that same man-eating smile she’d given Principal Evans. “You and I both know that I’m not the one acting like I don’t love it.”
His eyes focus heavily on her as he draws in a slow breath, silently loving having her in his arms while Noah groans out his annoyance at seeing his best friend and sister like this.
Tully raises her chin, hovering her lips just an inch away from Rivers, testing his willpower as she silently dares him to make a move with an excited sparkle glistening in her green eyes.
“Whoa,” Noah hurries in. He grabs Tully around the waist, pulling her from Rivers’ arms before hauling her across the room and throwing her down on the couch beside me. “This is not about to happen. Not now, not ever.”
Tully looks across at Rivers with that same sparkle still lighting her eyes. “And why the hell not?” she says, purposefully teasing her brother. “We all know he wants to.”
“Fuck me,” Noah grunts under his breath.
Rivers blanches and I can’t help but smother a smile. He shakes his head but the smile playing on his lips doesn’t go unnoticed before he turns on his heel and stalks out the front door.
With that, Tully pulls herself off the couch and disappears right behind him.
“I can only imagine what they’re doing out there,” Noah grunts, crashing down onto the couch, taking Tully’s vacated spot before pulling me onto his lap until I’m straddling him and looking down into the green eyes which I’m quickly falling for.
It’s crazy how quickly he’s managed to capture my heart. Only a few short weeks ago, I would have laughed at anyone who suggested that Noah Cage would have fallen for me. Not in a million years did I expect this and I’m so damn happy it did. Getting to know Noah has been nothing short of incredible. I’m at the point where imagining my life without him would be devastating. He’s my guy and I wouldn’t have it any other way.