you know how good you look? Good enough to eat. Fuck, I’m gonna be fighting with all the men tonight.”
I close the space between us and rest my hand on his chest. “Thank you.”
“We need to get out of my sister’s room right now, because us fucking in here is downright creepy.”
He wraps his arm around my shoulder and leads me outside. Glancing down at me, he says, “Welcome to my world.”
The question is, will I survive it?
* * *
“Is that woman stripping just because she can?” I ask Faye with wide eyes, unable to look away from the woman’s bared nipples.
Faye laughs, her wavy auburn hair flying around her face. “These women will do anything for some attention from our men. Ignore them. Although they are some pretty good boobs, right? They have to be fake.” She shoves a fry in her mouth and tilts her head, still staring at the woman’s breasts. “Her nipples are really perky.”
Having no idea what to say to that, I blurt out the first thing that comes to my mind. “You smell like cherry blossoms.”
She grins and nods. “My body lotion. It’s the shit, right?”
Faye’s a beautiful woman, and even though she’s the most powerful woman in here, she doesn’t throw that around. She’s always cracking jokes and making light of situations, and although I wouldn’t want to get on her bad side, she’s been nothing but nice to me from the get-go.
“So you and Rake, huh?” she says absently, her eyes now on Sin. “’Bout time that happened. You guys were eye-fucking each other every time I saw you.”
I laugh at that, shifting in my seat. “Yeah, I guess it is about time. But it’s more complicated than anyone knows. I mean, yeah, things are okay for now, but I don’t really know what’s going to happen in the long run.”
“Nothing worth having is easy, Bails,” she says. “Sin and I didn’t have it easy. Anna and Arrow probably had it the worst. Tracker and Lana had to fight for each other. But in the end it’s all worth it. And people might say Rake is the sluttiest out of the men, and between you and me, well, he is.” She shrugs unapologetically. “But I think if you get his heart, he will be the most loyal, devoted man you could ask for.”
I’m about to reply when she says, “Oooh, look, her pants are coming off now!”
“Do you care if Sin looks?” I ask curiously, watching the woman now dance around the garden in nothing but a G-string. No shame whatsoever.
“Sin might glance that way,” Faye says, a smug look on her face. “But that’s all he will do. He knows what he has, and he won’t do anything to ruin that. He wouldn’t survive if he lost me. And to be completely honest, I trust him. I know he won’t cheat.”
“The way he looks at you,” I admit, looking down at my lap. “I want that. Relationship goals.”
Faye touches my shoulder. “You already have that, sweetie—the look is just a little guarded and unsure right now. You just need to work it out with him. And for the record, I’m happy with his pick. All the men have picked awesome chicks, and it really makes my life easier.”
We both share a smile at that.
“Now,” she says. “It’s your turn to deal with this shit, because we’ve all been there.”
“Deal with what?”
She nods her head, and I look in that direction, to where a woman is talking with Rake, her hand on his chest, just like I had mine not even an hour ago.
“Who is that bitch?” I growl, rising from my seat.
Faye grabs my hand. “Don’t go up there. I have a better idea.”
I don’t like the mischievous, scheming look on her pretty face, but she’s the president’s wife, surely she knows what she’s talking about, right?
“What?” I ask, my blood boiling as I see the woman step closer to him, and him do nothing about it.
Nothing.
He invited me to this damn orgy party! Or whatever it’s called!
“I’m going to kill him.”
Faye gets in front of me, blocking my view. “Acting out right now isn’t going to teach him anything, and you’re both still in that unsure stage. Do you want to come off as jealous and crazy?”
“No,” I grumble quietly, exhaling.
“So can you go up there and make a scene about this? I mean technically he’s not yours, and he’s just talking to her,” she continues, giving me a look