Trials and Tiaras (Untouchable #7) - Heather Long Page 0,101

ride with us.”

He gave me a look, then her. “Let’s do that. Follow me back to my place. Supposed to rain tomorrow, so I want to put the bike in the garage.”

“Sounds like a plan.”

Jake climbed in the back with Frankie, and I didn’t complain because I wanted to keep an eye on her. By the time we got to Bubba’s, she was sound asleep. When I looked back at him, I murmured, “What the hell?”

“She’s really warm,” he said.

“Think it’s a fever?” Frankie didn’t get sick that often. Not really. I swore germs were scared of her, because when she had the flu in ninth grade, she’d missed almost a week of classes and had been pissed about the sheer amount of make-up work she had to do after.

I sent a text to Archie about Frankie not feeling well. Bubba didn’t keep us waiting, and Frankie groused when we got to Archie’s ’cause Jake was all set to pick her up.

“I’m tired, not an invalid,” she complained and poked him.

“You don’t have to be an invalid for me to want to get my hands on you.”

Nice save.

Not that we had to really do any arguing to check on her, because Jeremy had a touchless thermometer waiting for us as soon as we got inside.

“Really, guys?” She made a face but didn’t argue with Jeremy. Archie shot me a small smile and folded his arms.

“You definitely have a touch of fever, Miss Frankie,” Jeremy told her. “Go make yourselves comfortable, and I’ll get you some cold medicine and some tea. Then you can eat. Any other symptoms?”

“Just tired.”

He nodded, then shooed us off to make ourselves comfortable.

“We can have this discussion later,” Archie offered.

“No,” she said. “I want to know what Wittaker found, and we really do need to lock down our decisions for the fall. We’ve been putting it off and putting it off, but I don’t think Harvard is changing their mind anytime soon. And it doesn’t matter where we go as long as we’re together.”

She raked a hand through her hair as we headed upstairs, and I hadn’t missed the note of stuffiness in her voice. In fact, she’d had a huskier quality to her voice all day, but again, thinking with my dick and not my brain. The smoky voice was a fucking turn on. Bad Coop.

We headed into the entertainment room and the big sofa. Archie snagged her a blanket, and when she would have curled up by herself, I slid in and pulled her into my lap.

“You’re gonna get sick,” she complained, and I chuckled as I stroked her hair back.

“Frankie, I ate you out last night for an hour, not to mention Jake and I were both fucking you. I’d say we were already as exposed as we’re gonna get.”

Her lower lip jutted out, and she sighed. “Crap. I don’t want to get you guys sick this close to AP exams. We have too much work to do.”

“We have plenty of time, Angel,” Bubba told her as he sat at the end of the sofa and pulled her feet to his lap. He stripped off her shoes so he could massage them. “Right now, we focus on getting you better and sorting all this out.”

“Blegh,” she said, and Jake laughed.

“I forgot how crabby she gets when she’s sick.”

“I do not get crabby,” she informed him, and I swore it was like watching a rapid decline. She’d been flushed on and off all day, but we’d been flirting like hell. So it was pretty normal.

“Tell you what, let’s just whiteboard it.” He motioned to the other side of the room, and sure as shit, there was a white board set up. “We’ll do all the pros and cons while you sit and rest. Then when we’re done, we’ll pull that final pin.”

Bubba worked his thumb against her instep, while I ran my fingers through her hair. “Okay,” she murmured. “Has anything changed about other schools? Aren’t you waiting on your auditions qualifying you?”

“Not anymore,” Bubba told her. He let go of her foot long enough to snag his bag and pulled out his phone. “I’ve gotten emails all day.”

“And?” Not even feeling crappy could diminish the excitement in her voice. To be honest, I was dying to know too. Also, I was going to start calling him Iceman, ’cause I used to think I was cool under pressure, but I hadn’t even realized he’d gotten any news. This after what he did with the