JJ mocked, clasping his heart dramatically.
"Well, I like watching you fuck my girl," Maverick corrected. "And I don't find your personality totally abrasive, so there's that."
"Come on, Rick, you can admit you love him. I know you want to," I pushed, closing the distance between me and him as JJ released me to grab himself a drink.
Maverick smirked at me, licking the pad of his thumb before swiping his saliva along the groove of his collar bone and shaking some salt onto the skin. He tilted his head to the side, jerking his chin in a command and I obediently tiptoed up, slowly licking the salt from his flesh and pressing my hands to his abs as they contracted at my touch.
He raised a shot of tequila to my lips and I knocked it back before he held a wedge of lime to my mouth for me to suck on last.
"Hey, beautiful," he said in his deep voice, his gaze devouring me as I licked the last taste of lime from my lips and looked at his mouth.
But instead of giving me the kiss I wanted, he beckoned JJ closer and placed another line of salt on his neck.
"I didn't realise you liked me like this," JJ teased, while Maverick just shrugged.
"I'm testing the waters. But I'm thinking I'll prefer the feeling of her mouth on my body over yours."
I bit my lip as JJ leaned in, making a show of licking the salt from Maverick's skin before accepting his shot and lime. I sucked in a sharp breath as I looked between the two of them and JJ gave me a dark look as he leaned in to kiss me slowly.
"Dance for us, pretty girl," he breathed against my lips.
"I'm too sad for dancing," I murmured.
"Because Foxy boy fucked up your life and sent Chase away?" Maverick asked and I frowned at his candid question before nodding. "I bet you really hate him for doing that, don't you?"
"You know how pissed I am at Fox for doing that. But seeing as he's run off and won't even answer my calls, I'm stuck waiting for him to decide he gives a shit about any of us again and comes back," I snapped, wondering why he felt the need to bring the mood down by rehashing this.
"Yeah, Fox is such a dick. He's turned on all of us now, hasn't he? Goes to show what he really thinks of his so-called family," Maverick said, sinking another shot without bothering with the lime or salt.
"Yeah, well fuck him," JJ muttered, the hurt in his voice clear beneath the anger. "All he really gives a shit about is what he wants. He clearly never gave a single thought to what the rest of us need to be happy."
"All I want is for him to see sense and bring Chase home," I said, slamming back another shot too. "That's it. But in this moment that isn't going to happen, so I say we all get fucked up and try to forget about the mess he's left us in for one night. I'm so fucking tired of hurting all the time."
Maverick and JJ exchanged a wicked look before Rick raised his glass in a toast. "To forgetting all about Fox fucking Harlequin then. And being a whole lot happier without him trying to control our fucking lives."
JJ grunted, knocking back his own drink alongside Rick but I just glared into mine. "Fuck that," I muttered. "But I'll drink to forgetting all the things I have to hurt over and trying to chase happiness tonight."
"To emotionless oblivion then," Rick agreed and I snorted half a laugh before downing my shot.
My head spun a little at the onslaught of the alcohol and as the music shifted to So What by P!nk I took JJ's hand and pulled him away from the bar to dance with me.
Maverick watched us with a smirk lining his lips as I pressed my back to JJ's chest and let the music have me. I was so fucking angry and I needed an outlet for it, so I was going to dance with my boys and tell the world to get fucked tonight. It would still be waiting to destroy me in the morning anyway and I didn't have to let it ruin this too.
The music moved on to more angry fuck you break up kinds of songs and I swear they were just playing my pissed off feelings over this whole Fox