by J. S. Cooper
“Liv.” She made a face. “Not that that’s ever going to happen.”
“You never know.”
“I doubt Aiden will ever give me the time of day, no matter what I wear.” She lay back on the bed next to me. “He’s just not into me.”
“According to Xander, both Scott and Aiden are into you.”
“What?” She rolled over and looked at me. “Are you joking?”
“Nope.” I shrugged. “He said that he thinks they’re both into you.”
“What makes him think that? Did they tell him?”
“He’s never met them before Alice.” I shook my head. “I don’t think either of them told him crap, it’s just an observation he made from ten seconds of being in the room with all of us.”
“Oh,” She made a face. “So that doesn’t really mean much then.”
“Yeah, not really.” I sat up. “Now go and show me your outfits and let me help you figure out what to wear.”
“I suck.”
“We both suck.” I groaned. “I was flirting with Henry to make Xander jealous.”
“Oh, Mr. Tongue’s brother?” Alice’s eyes widened.
“Yeah, he’s a cutie.” I nodded. “I think you might like him.”
“I don’t need a third guy to worry about.”
“A third guy?” I frowned. “Who’s the second?”
“Well you said Scott liked me...” She said weakly and made a face.
“Oh my God, Alice, do you like Scott as well?” I asked her. This time it was my turn to be shocked.
“No, yes, no, I don’t know.” She made a face. “He’s nice as well.”
“Alice, you’re the dirty dog now.”
“We’re both dirty dogs.” She giggled and held up two tops. “Which one?”
“Wear the white top with your skinny jeans. The blue ones.” I grinned at her. “And wear your white, opened toed heels.”
“Heels to breakfast?” She made a face. “Are you sure that’s not too much?”
“Trust me, it’s not too much.” I held in a laugh. If she was willing to wear fake eyelashes, dark eyeliner and hair extensions, heels to breakfast was not too much at all.
“Okay, if you say it’s good.” She grinned at me. “Maybe Aiden will take one look at me and be like ‘where have you been all my life?’.”
“Yeah, maybe.” I offered her a weak smile. I was pretty confident that Aiden didn’t have a romantic bone in his body.
“So what else happened with you and Xander?”
“Nothing much. He’s such a jerk, ugh.” I groaned. “Why do I still have the hots for him?”
“Because he’s hot.” She made a face. “And he has a tongue that can make you come in seconds?”
“Alice!”
“What? I’m just repeating what you told me.”
“That was when I still liked him. That was when he was the stranger I hooked up with at a wedding. That was when it was still exciting and I could remember and fantasize. Now I can’t do either of them.”
“Well you can do both, it would just be a bit weird.”
“He’s the one that tried to have sex with me again. Should I tell Gabby?”
“I think you should.” She nodded. “He can’t have his cake and eat it too. That would be wrong.”
“You really think I should tell her?” I asked in surprise.
“Hell no.” She made a face and frowned up at me. “If you say anything, Gabby will never forgive you and everyone in your family will think you’re a slut and Aiden will think I’m a bad influence.”
“Alice.” I shook my head at her.
“And I just don’t think it’s a good idea, honestly, Liv. Just spend the weekend and we’ll go home and forget him. Gabby deserves him. They’re both jerks.”
“Yeah, I guess.”
“And I mean, we don’t even know why they’re really getting married.”
“True.” I nodded. “I have no idea why he proposed to her all of a sudden.”
“Yeah, it all seems weird. Maybe he’s some shady drug dealer or part of the mafia or something. Maybe Gabby is signing her baby away like Rumpelstiltskin or The Omen or something.”
“The Omen?”
“Yeah, you know how that lady gave birth to Damian, the devil.”
“She sold her baby to the devil?”
“No, her baby was the devil.”
“Oh.” I scratched the side of my head. “So you’re saying you think Gabby is giving birth to the devil?”
“No, I meant more like maybe she’s selling her soul to the devil and Xander is the devil.”
“I wouldn’t be shocked if I found that out.”
“Imagine if you really had slept with the devil, you’d have to spend the rest of your life in church asking for forgiveness, just for a chance to get to heaven.”
“Thanks Alice, that makes me feel a lot better.” I groaned. “I’m doomed.”
“You’re not doomed. Maybe you’ll like Henry, or we can find you another guy. We’ll let Xander know he can shove his dick up his own ass.”
“That would be funny.” I giggled.
“Wouldn’t it be?” She laughed with me and we both just stared at each other for a few seconds before she spoke to me again. “I have a feeling that this is going to be another crazy weekend.”
“You and me both, sister. You and me both.”
Chapter Six
“Liv.” Gabby’s voice echoed throughout the restroom. “Are you in here?”
I froze at the sound of her voice and I could see that Xander was trying not to laugh as his hand covered my mouth.
“Liv? Are you in here?” Gabby said again. “Speak up if you’re in here. We can’t find you, Alice, Xander or Scott and mom and dad want to pay the bill and leave now.”
I glanced up at Xander, my face burning a bright red and I could feel myself sliding down his body, until his hands slipped to my ass and he pulled me back up, so that once again I was nestled firmly against his body, his cock nestled in-between my legs.
“Liv? Alice?” Gabby said again sounding annoyed and I bit my lower lip in shame and listened to her as she exited the restroom.
“I’m a horrible sister.” I groaned and then cried out as Xander ignored my comment and instead entered me again swiftly.
“No, you’re not.” He grinned, his fingers squeezing my butt cheeks as he moved in and out of me. I tightened my grip around his waist and bit down on his shoulder to stop myself from crying out in ecstasy.
I know you’re wondering what happened at breakfast that would have me fucking Xander again, and in the restaurant restroom, of all places. First off, you have to know that I’m not the sort of girl that stole other girls’ boyfriends. Not in high school, not in college. Not ever. I was never the girl to go after another woman’s man. I just don’t do that, but you have to understand that these were extenuating circumstances. Xander wasn’t really Gabby’s man and well, he just made it too damn hard to say no to. Way too hard.
I didn’t leave the house expecting to have sex with Xander again. That was not part of the plan. Not at all. I was planning on ignoring him, but that all went downhill as soon as we got into the SUV to go to the restaurant two hours ago.
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“I’m so happy that everyone came home to hear my good news.” Gabby grinned from the passenger seat of my father’s Lincoln Navigator. “You guys, rock.” She looked at me and then Alice. “I can’t believe that even people that weren’t invited showed up.” She gave Alice another look and then turned back to Aiden who was driving the car.
“Why didn’t you ride with mom, dad, and Chett?” I asked Gabby, annoyed by her already and we’d only been in the car for five minutes.
“Because I wanted to drive with my fiancé and his brother.” She said as she smiled at Xander lovingly. “And I wanted to be in the Lincoln. It seats eight and I wanted the largest amount of people to enjoy my company while we celebrate this weekend.”
“Yay us
.” Alice said and looked at me with a grin.
“Grow up.” Gabby rolled her eyes. “You two are college graduates now, you’re both twenty-two. Stop acting like you’re twelve.”
“Don’t talk to Alice like that.” I snapped at Gabby.
“Yeah, give it a break.” Scott spoke up from the backseat. “No one wants to hear you lecturing all day.” He continued.
“Scott.” Aiden stopped at the traffic light and looked into the back. “This is Gabby’s big weekend. Have some respect.”
“Yeah yeah yeah. No one died and made you John Boy Walton, Aiden.” Scott retorted and Alice and I laughed at his comments. Aiden looked at Alice for a second then and her face went red as her laughter died.
“See what you’ve done.” I turned around and looked at Xander, who was sitting in the last row with a smirk on his face. Henry was sitting next to him and looked slightly uncomfortable.
“Liv.” Gabby snapped. “Do not talk to my fiancé that way.”
“Am I lying?”
“That’s why you’re still single and can’t get a man.” Gabby snapped again, her eyes flaring at me. “You do not know how to treat a man.”
“And you do?” My jaw dropped at her rudeness.
“I’m the one that’s engaged.” She flashed her ring and I turned away, wanting so desperately to shout that I was the one that had fucked him the previous weekend.
“Girls.” Aiden spoke up again. “That’s enough Gabby.”
“What? Liv is the one–”
“You’re being rude to Liv and to Alice, just stop it.”
The car was silent then. I don’t think any of us could believe that Aiden had spoken like that to Gabby. He never told her off. The only two he seemed to ride were Scott and I, even Chett didn’t get chastised much. I turned around and looked at Xander again, but stopped myself from glaring at him because Henry was there. We were all more than ready to arrive at the restaurant and Alice and I jumped out of the SUV quickly and walked towards the entrance.
“Who knew that Aiden would stick up for me?” She grinned and I tried not to roll my eyes.
“So we still sharing those pancakes?” Henry ran up to join us.
“Sounds like a plan to me.” I nodded and smiled. “Just remember—”
“No bacon, I know.” He completed my sentence for me.
“Hmm, I don’t believe we’ve been formally introduced.” Alice held her hand out. “I’m Alice, Liv’s best friend and number one supporter.”
‘Hi Alice,” He shook her hand. “I’m Xander’s younger brother Henry and general underling.”
“Nice to meet you underling.” Alice grinned.
“Nice to meet you number one supporter.” He grinned back at her.
“Alice, I was hoping to speak to you.” Aiden was suddenly by her side and I saw her looking over at him in glee.
“So just why did you come this weekend?” I asked Henry as we walked into the restaurant to join my parents and Chett. I could hear Gabby and Xander talking behind us.
“Xander asked me to come.” Henry lowered his voice. “To be honest, I’ve never heard of Gabby before this weekend.” He looked behind us for a quick second. “And she’s not the sort of girl I expected him to settle down with. I mean, I never thought he would get married, period.” He laughed.
“Oh? Why’s that?”
“My brother Xander is a playboy. A confirmed bachelor so to speak. He’s always said he never had any intentions to get married or to have kids.”
“Really?” I wanted so badly to turn around and ask Xander why he was marrying Gabby. “So why do you think he’s marrying Gabby?”
“My mom said that Xander would marry when he fell in love.” He grinned. “She always said that she didn’t give birth to robots and the day would come when a woman would claim his heart and he’d never be the same again. I guess that day came.”
“Oh wow. So you think he really loves her then?”
“What do I know?” Henry shrugged and looked away.
“What? What aren’t you telling me?”
“I don’t want to be rude.” Henry made a face. “But I just didn’t think that someone like Gabby would ever be his type. I know she’s your sister and all, but she’s just so...” His voice trailed off and I laughed.
“She’s a bitch.”
“I didn’t want to say that.”
“It’s fine.” I laughed and hooked my arm through his, genuinely happy that he was here this weekend. We walked over to the table and my parents stood up, while Chett chatted away to someone on the phone. “We all call her that.” I whispered in his ear before we sat down.
“Really?” He looked at me in surprise.
“And by all, I mean Alice and me.” I grinned as he laughed.
“What are you two laughing at?” Xander approached us with a frown.
“None of your business.” I said smartly and then winked at Henry, who laughed again.
“Hmmph.” Xander’s throat made a noise, but he didn’t say anything.
“I’ll sit next to you.” Henry sat in the chair next to me and I smiled happily.
“I guess I’ll take the other seat.” Xander said and plopped down next me on the other side.
“But Alice was going to sit there.”
“Well, she’s not, is she?” He raised an eyebrow at me.
“Whatever.” I looked past him, up at Gabby who was staring at us with daggers in her eyes. “I thought you’d want to sit with your fiancé. There isn’t a chair to your right.” I said stiffly.
“Well you thought wrong, didn’t you?”
“So did you sleep well?” I turned back to Henry and decided to ignore Xander. I wasn’t going to let him rile me up at breakfast in front of everyone. I knew my parents would not be happy if they heard me calling him names.
“Yes, pretty good thanks.” Henry nodded back. “What about you?”
“Yeah, I felt...argh.” I jumped as I felt a hand on my leg. I looked over at Xander, but he was busy talking to my father across the table. I reached under the table and grabbed his hand and tried to remove it from my thigh, but it wasn’t budging; if anything, it was moving higher up on my thigh. Why oh why had I let Alice talk me into wearing a skirt this morning?
“Stop it.” I hissed at Xander, but he didn’t pay any attention to me.
“You okay, Liv?” Henry asked and I nodded. How could I tell him that his brother’s fingers were running up and down the inside of my leg and I was starting to feel turned on?
“Yeah, so I heard you’re single?” I said and then realized everyone was looking at me as the table had gone quiet.
“Way to be obvious, Liv.” Gabby shook her head at me.
“Obvious about what?” I looked at her with my best death glare.
“That you’re interested.” She shook her head. “Mom and dad really should have sent you to deportment classes, maybe then you’d have some class.”
“You’re talking to me about class?” I laughed and looked at Alice. “You the girl that used to sneak out to meet Tommy, the guy from the car wash on Friday nights so you could have sex in the back of rich people’s cars?”
“Liv.” My mother admonished me as her face went red. “That’s enough.”
“She started it.” I protested.
“Liv.” Aiden gave me a look. “Enough.”
“Yes, dad.” I rolled my eyes at him. “Oh wait, my dad is sitting next to mom. So who then are you, Sir?” I asked, my voice raising as Xander’s fingers ran all the way up my leg and settled at the top of my thigh and inched their way inwards. I closed my legs together, but that was a wrong move, as I just trapped his fingers in-between my legs and I could feel him rubbing against my bud. Oh God, why did it feel so good? I wanted to tell him to fuck off, but I couldn’t. A part of me was getting off on what we were doing. I know that sounds awful, but you had to be in the situation, with your bitchy horrible superior sister sitting opposite you with a look on her face like I wa
s a piece of dog poop on the bottom of her Jimmy Choo heels.
“Enough Liv.” My dad finally spoke up. “This is not the time for you and Gabby to bicker.”
“I’m not bickering. I’m just stating the....agh...” My voice trailed off as I felt Xanders index finger tapping and rubbing my clit. I was going to kill that man.
“You’re such a jealous little–” Gabby started with a look of rage on her face.
“Come on guys.” Scott cut her off. “We have guests. We don’t want Xander and Henry to think we’re all crazy.”
“What about what I think?” Alice asked him with a small smile.
“You already know how crazy we are.” He winked at her and she laughed.
“That’s true.”
“Are you two done?” Aiden glared at them and I looked over at Xander’s smug face in shock. Had he been right? Did both Scott and Aiden have crushes on Alice? Oh my God, how much crazier could our family get.
“Please do not worry about us.” Xander spoke up as his finger kept rubbing me gently. “My brother and I are happy to share in all experiences with your family. We lost our parents a few years ago and we’re happy to be a part of your family structure now.”
“So you’re orphans?” I asked him, my heart suddenly aching for him.
“We have a grandfather that is still very much alive.” He looked over at me and smiled. “He’s actually still working at the family business and making all sorts of demands.”
“Oh?”
“He wants us to provide heirs for the company.” Henry said with a laugh. “Antiquated isn’t it? He said he won’t pass on our shares until he sees us both getting married and having kids.”
“Wow.” I looked at Henry then. “That’s crazy.” Of course, I’d be lying if I said my mind wasn’t ticking a million miles a second. Was this why Xander was marrying Gabby?
“It’s a good thing that you’re already pregnant then, isn’t it Gabby?” Alice suddenly spoke up. “Xander will have both a wife and baby to show to his grandfather.” There was silence at the table after Alice spoke and I watched as her hand flew to her mouth and she looked at me with wide eyes. She had forgotten that my parents weren’t supposed to know about the baby.
“What baby?” Aiden frowned and looked at Gabby.
