The Do-Over (The Rooftop Crew #5) - Piper Rayne Page 0,54
court date, we’re going to be looking for Leilani.”
“Okay,” he mumbles over another forkful of omelet. “I’m just doing the shitty job of being your best friend. I have to warn you so I can tell you I told you so later. Good luck.”
I walk over to my bedroom door to prepare to shower. “Do you want to come with us?”
“What time? Depends on my appointments at the shop.”
Asshole. He and I both know he’s going to come. He’s just gonna make me work for it.
“Two,” I say.
“I’ll be there.”
Two o’clock comes and there’s a knock on my bedroom door.
“This is the part where we get out of bed,” Kamea says, wiggling in my arms.
But I haven’t had enough of her just yet. She sneaked into my bed after her coffee shift and woke me in the best possible way—naked and sucking my cock.
After a round of sex, I fell asleep to her tapping fingers on her keyboard. Although she snuck out of my room at some point because when I woke, she was where I like to see her—at the breakfast bar. Which spurred me to pick her up and take her back into my bedroom.
“Let’s go, Whelan, I got shit to do,” Jax calls through the door.
Kamea draws back from me. “Why is Jax coming with us?”
I don’t want to start our relationship with a lie, but this is for her own good. “He wants to go to the old neighborhood. Plus, he might get more information than I would. Most of them know I’m a cop and Leilani made good friends with a few of them during the time we were together.”
She nods. I bring my lips to hers with the hope of getting that look of apprehension off her face. My hand slides down to hers, and I lead her toward my bedroom door. We walk out and I see not only Jax, but Dylan and Rian too.
“What is this, a field trip?” I say.
Kamea’s hand falls out of mine and she goes to Rian, asking about the rest of her day at the bakery and saying how she was working all day on T-shirts for the store.
“Excuse me.” Jax raises his hand. “Are you pushing Rian’s T-shirt order ahead of mine?”
Kamea laughs. “Yours are on their way. Stop worrying.”
Sometimes a tinge of jealousy hits me with Jax and Kamea. They formed a friendship so quickly, it scares me that there could be more.
“What exactly are these T-shirts you ordered and am I going to be pissed when you hand them out?” Dylan asks Jax.
“Let’s get to the train. I gotta be back for my shift,” I say.
We all usher out, but Jax claps Dylan’s shoulder and assures Dylan he’ll love them. I really need to try to pull that information out of Kamea before Dylan does have a problem on his hands. Sometimes what Jax thinks is funny isn’t what everyone else does.
On the train, Kamea sits with me, Rian and Dylan across the aisle, and Jax in front of us. We talk about me playing Santa in two weeks. Jax tells me not to miss it. He’s so protective of Jolie, you’d think she was his daughter. Plus Blanca’s wedding is fast approaching in the new year, and I have my interview for the detective position in two days. There’s a lot of shit going on.
Hopping off the train in our old neighborhood, Dylan clenches Rian’s hand a little tighter, not giving her much space to separate. From what I know, he’s rarely returned here after Winnie’s passing, whereas I have to come visit my parents who still live here.
“Johnny’s?” Jax asks.
I nod, and we head in the direction of a dive bar in the middle of the neighborhood. It’s a well-known fact that Johnny sells drugs in the back while operating a bar for all the older alcoholics in our neighborhood to drink themselves to oblivion.
Leilani took a liking to Johnny, and him to her, the first time they met at a barbecue I took her too. Although I don’t ever hang out at Johnny’s Bar, I found her here twice and she wasn’t trying to get him to sign a petition to save the whales. She was snorting cocaine. It was my first time finding out she even did that, and in retrospect, it made me want to save her more.
All five of us walk in, and Dylan practically keeps Rian behind him. I’m surprised he even brought her.