She shrieks through her laughter and jumps back when he stands.
“You’re all a bunch of pricks,” he barks and storms from the room.
We all watch his retreating back and wince when the door slams.
“Maybe you should just go suck his cock. Cheer him up a bit,” Jodie suggests, damn near making me choke on my mouthful of coffee.
“He’s got a perfectly good right hand. I’m sure he can cope.”
“He’s just pissed because he found Calli in Alex’s bed this morning,” Seb announces.
My eyes find a very sheepish-looking Calli.
“You didn’t,” I gasp.
“What?” she asks incredulously. “I didn’t sleep with him.”
“Not sure Nico cares about the details, baby C,” Seb points out.
“Well, fuck him. And you too,” she spits, pointing at Theo to cut off any opinion he might have about this before he gets a chance to say anything. “I was drunk. Alex was… bearable.”
“Thanks, babe. I just about managed to put up with you too.”
Calli flips him off before dropping into the empty chair beside him.
I watch them with interest as Alex leans into her and whispers something in her ear that makes her giggle.
I don’t have any kind of issue with something happening between them, but I can understand why Nico does. She’s his little sister, and we’ve watched her grow up from that little girl in pink tutus and playing with her Barbies. But he needs to accept that she’s no longer a child. She’s a woman. A beautiful, funny and intelligent one at that. Alex would be fucking lucky to have her, if that’s what she wants.
“They’re cute together,” Jodie whispers in my ear.
“Yeah, they are.”
Our conversations move on from the revelation of Calli and Alex spending the night together, and before we know it, we’re knocking on Nico’s door and telling him that we’re leaving with or without him.
“I’ll meet you out in the car, Demon,” I say to Jodie after carrying our bags down to the front door. “I want to talk to Stella before we leave.”
I don’t need to say more. Jodie knows what I want to talk to my sister about, and she’s more than happy to not know about the details.
She drops a kiss on my lips and follows Emmie and Theo out the door.
“Stel,” I say as she and Seb go to move past me.
“Is everything okay?” she asks, reading something in my expression.
Wrapping my hand around her upper arm I pull her to the side of the stairs and explain what I’m planning on doing when we get back.
“Do you want to be there?”
“Aw, Toby. You’re such a sweetheart,” she teases.
“Do you or not? Because you won’t get a second shot at this.”
“Do I want to watch the life drain from that cunt’s eyes? Hell yeah, I do.”
“Something’s wrong with you, Sis.”
“Takes one to know one,” she quips.