Her Dirty Bartenders (Men at Work #5) - Mika Lane Page 0,37
wasn’t ready. But I would be some day.
“I have something else to tell you,” he said.
What else was there?
“The other guys like you, too.”
Huh? What the hell did that mean? Of course, I’d kissed them both, but those were just flukes, right?
Right?
He pulled back, smoothing my hair and examining every inch of my face like he’d never seen it before. “We guys do this… thing. We share.”
Um, okay.
He nodded at my obvious confusion. “I know it’s unconventional, but we all like to date the same woman, when we find the right one. I mean, we have to all be interested in her, and then of course, she has to be into it too.”
Cripes, I’d thought I was dizzy before. Good thing I was sitting.
“So, you guys have like a ménage sort of thing, except it’s all three of you?”
He thought for a moment. “Well, yeah. It’s like that. Look, obviously you and I have history together, but I know Robbie likes you, and so does Maze.”
Shit. Did he know I’d kissed them both?
“You’ve kissed both of them, and that’s totally cool. In fact, I find it hot as shit.”
I side-eyed him because I didn’t know what else to do. “How do you know that?”
He shrugged. “They told me.”
Big mouths.
But wait. How did Maze know he’d kissed me?
“I was wearing a costume the night I kissed Maze—”
“He knew it was you. I think he figured it out later.”
Damn. I’d thought I was so clever. So much for Marni’s brilliant costumes.
“What are you doing?” a shrill voice called from the doorway.
I reflexively moved several inches away from Cab, before I even saw that it was psycho Annabel acting like she was the morality police.
Really, lady?
“Why do you care?” I snapped back.
I was tired of her shit.
“I’ll have you know that I am telling everyone I caught you two together—”
“Annabel, shut up. Just shut up. And after you shut up, please go to hell,” Cab said, turning back to me to kiss me even more passionately than before.
She gaped at our insolence in the face of her scolding, and stomped off.
As soon as she was gone, I looked at Cab. “That was seriously funny. I mean, who’s she going to tell? The school principal?”
I started laughing. Like I couldn't stop kind of laughing.
And because laughter was contagious, Cab joined me, shaking, and doubling over at the absurdity of her threat.
And maybe also the absurdity of life.
“Why’d you do it?” I finally asked.
I’d waited so long for an answer to this, I wasn’t even sure I really wanted it.
What if he said it was because I sucked in bed?
Or that he never really cared about me anyway?
It was best not to ask the questions you didn’t really want answers to.
He took a deep breath. “I’m not proud of this, but I let my dad pressure me into it. As soon as he found out about us, he put me on the next plane to Denver.”
Holy shit. Mr. Hendricks had been behind it. I’d always wondered.
“And he’s not done messing with my life,” Cab continued, running a finger down my cheek and over my bottom lip.
God, the effect he had on me.
“What’s he doing to you now?” I asked, in between licking and sucking his finger.
Cab’s eyelids got heavy and he shifted, no doubt making room for an erection.
“He wants me to come back and work in the family business. And to force my hand, he’s demanding back the investment he made in Tableau. Or, threatening to sell us.”
I’d always thought that man was horrible, and not just because my parents couldn’t stand him. It was a miracle Cab and Marni turned out as well as they did.
“God. I had no idea. What will you do?”
“The guys and I are hoping that by having private parties like we did last week, we might raise enough money to quickly to pay him back and get him out of our hair. He’s such an asshole he doesn’t even care that his pulling the plug on Tableau would put a shit load of people out of work, not to mention my business partners, Maze and Robbie.”
“What can I do to help?” I asked.
He laughed. “Unless you have a spare quarter of a million dollars lying around, not much. But thank you for asking,” he said, kissing me on the forehead.
“Hey, I think we’d better get downstairs to see if Maze needs any help.”
Cab glanced at his watch. His very expensive watch. I remembered when Mr. Hendricks gave one