“Yes, dad, we’re back in the states,” Jacque told her father. Though it was nearly midnight and they had only been back in the states for eleven hours, she had decided she had better go ahead and call him and give him a heads up. She thought that Vasile might have already talked to him since they had been gone nearly twenty-two hours, but based on his reaction he hadn’t heard anything from anyone.
“Is Fane with you?” Dillon asked.
“No, none of the males came with us,” Jacque pulled the phone away from her ear as her father’s raised voice came blaring through. “Dad, Dad,” she said loudly, “you can’t come here and you can’t just try to jump in anytime Vasile or Fane do something you don’t agree with. Dad, no.”
Just as she was about to put the phone back to her ear it was snatched from her hand. “Hey,” she hollered but then stopped herself when she saw who had her phone.
“Why didn’t they send any of the males you ask, Dillon, Alpha of the Denver pack? Why don’t you call those idiots and find out? Have a nice night.” Peri hit the end key and tossed the phone back to Jacque.
“Uh, Peri, I was sort of talking to my dad,” Jacque said.
Peri snorted. “You were sort of talking, but I can guarantee he was sort of not listening.”
“Why do you say that?” Sally asked as she came into the living room and joined Jacque on the couch.
“Because he has a penis,” Peri said matter-of-fact like.
Jen’s foot hit the bottom step just about the time Peri finished talking and she had a wicked grin on her face. “Peri busted out the P word! Ok.” She hurried her pregnant self around to the love seat and sat down. “Now, what’s with all the penis talk? Are we comparing notes, learning new techniques?”
“As truly interesting as any of those conversations would be, that is not why I busted out, as you put it, with the P word.” Peri fold her arms across her chest and glared down at the three girls.
“Okay,” Jacque prompted, “so can you tell us why you felt the need to use a man’s body part as way to make a point?”
“Which by the way, you picked the perfect part if you indeed were trying to make a point,” Jen added.
Peri’s lips twitched and Jen reached over and held her fist out to her two best friends. “I made the fae twitch with her own penis point.”
Jacque and Sally’s heads whipped around at Jen’s words and they busted out laughing. Jen shrugged. “I know, I know, I’m freaking hilarious.” She looked up at Peri and grinned when she saw the fae smothering her own laugh with her hand.
“Okay, pull it together you perverts,” Peri finally told them as she collected herself. “I went and saw your males during their meeting with Cypher,”
“What happened?”
“Are they alright?”
Sally and Jacque asked at the same time.
“Pipe down you two. Your men are fine. Although, after I told them they were all idiots, they might have been less than happy with me.”
“You told Decebel he was an idiot?” Jen asked in awe.
“Sort of, I actually told him he was the queen of the idiots.”
“Nice,” Jen grinned.
“Um Peri, I’m totally in agreement with penises and idiots, but if Costin is alright then why has he not used our bond to contact me and why is he not responding to me when I try to contact him?” Sally asked.
“Yeah,” Jacque agreed, “what she said, only with Fane’s name in his place.”
Peri gave both girls a dry look. “You both know that I love you right? But do I look like a couples’ counselor to you? I don’t know why they won’t get their heads out of their asses and talk to you. What I do know is they’re idiots.”
“And they have penises,” Jen added.
“Thanks for the clarification, Jennifer,” Peri rolled her eyes.
“Just want to make sure we stay on the same penis, I mean page.”
Jacque and Sally were laughing again as Peri glared at Jen who shrugged. “I told you. I’m freaking hilarious.”