My voice sounded so deep, I hardly recognized it.
The corner of his mouth shot up, and he wore a sexy-as-hell smirk on his face. Lord, that dimple in his cheek did all kinds of things to my libido. “I want to kiss, lick, and suck your—”
The sound of my doorbell made both of us freeze.
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” we both said at once.
“Don’t you dare answer that door, Emme. If I don’t make love to you soon, I’m going to die. Do you want me to die? How would that look for our fake engagement and wedding…where instead of reading vows, you read my obituary?”
I smiled and reached down, pulling him up by his arms until he was on top of me. “Take off your pants, Mr. Lewis.”
Landon had never moved so fast. He sprang off the bed, took off his boots, jeans, and boxers in record time, and then crawled back over me.
My doorbell rang again, followed by a knock.
“Who could that be?” Landon asked before he buried his face in my neck and proceeded to kiss me. When he moved down my chest, I gasped and tried to speak. “I—I don’t give a shit who it could be.” But it came out sounding all jumbled up. “Don’t…care…shit…don’t stop.”
Then I heard my cell phone ring from where I had been working at my dining room table.
Landon growled and rolled off of me. “You should at least check your phone.”
“I don’t care who it is.”
Another knock, this one louder.
“Fuck!” I said as I jumped up and walked into my bathroom, grabbed a bath towel, and wrapped it around myself.
I headed to my phone first. My doorbell was going off like crazy now.
When I picked up my phone, I saw a text from Hailey.
Hail: I need to speak to you ASAP.
Just then, another one came through.
Hail: Please! I’m sorry to interrupt you and Landon. I need you, Emme!!!
The urgency in her text made me turn and quickly run to the front door. I unlocked it and Hailey fell back into my house. She had been sitting against the door and was now currently flat on her back, looking up at me.
“I can totally see up that towel, and let me be the first to say that you need to visit my girl at the spa.”
Jumping back, I glared at her. “This better be good, Hailey.”
Each word came out like a warning, spoken slowly and with as much sternness as I could put into them.
“Mike cheated on me.”
I stumbled back, bringing my hand up to my mouth to hold back my quick intake of air. “Wh-what?” I whispered. “What do you mean, he cheated on you?”
Still lying on the floor, she put her arm up to her forehead and tears instantly ran down her cheeks. “When he was out of town for that business trip to Dallas a few weeks back, he ran into an old flame who works at the same company he does. They hooked up, and she called his cell phone today. The only problem was, Mike was outside in the barn helping Malcolm and my father. He had the day off today, so she probably thought it was safe to call. I saw her name and knew it was her, the ex. I answered and didn’t say anything, and she said…she said…‘Hey, babe, is it safe to talk?’ I muffled the phone and lowered my voice and said, ‘Yeah.’”
I dropped down to the floor next to Hailey, not even caring that she was half-in and half-out of my house, or that I was still wrapped in a towel. “Hailey, oh no.” I brushed back the hair that was stuck on her face from her tears. “What did she say?”
“It was awful, Emme! She started talking about how she missed his dick and asked if he was able to FaceTime with her this afternoon. I didn’t say anything, and she said it was okay, he didn’t have to answer her if other people were around. But she asked him when he could manage to get away from me and come back for a visit. She said something about how she knew he’d said it had been a mistake and a lapse of judgment on his part, but that if he really loved me, he wouldn’t have slept with her in the first place. And right after he asked me to marry him!”
“I’m going to fucking kill him.”
The words came from Landon. When I turned to see him, he had his pants on but his shirt was still off.
Hailey quickly stood up and faced her brother. “No, you’re not, Landon. He doesn’t know I know.”
“He’s going to find out when he talks to her, and she says something about speaking with him,” I said.
Hailey shook her head. “I have his phone. He thinks he lost it since he can’t find it anywhere.”
“That motherfucker,” Landon said. “Let me pound my fists into him, Hail. Please.”
With a weak smile, Hailey walked over to Landon and reached up to kiss him on the cheek. “I cock-blocked y’all again, didn’t I?”
I shook my head and quickly replied, “No.”
“Yes,” Landon said at the same time.
With a roll of my eyes, I made my way over to Hailey who was now face-down on my sofa. “Sweetie, let me go get dressed. Landon, make her something strong to drink, and we’ll all figure out how to get that asshole back.”
Hailey rolled over and looked up at me. “God, I love you so much. You just get me.”
With a nod, I replied, “Well, we are like sisters, and that’s what I would want to do if someone cheated on me. After I paid someone to cut his dick off, of course.”
“Ouch,” Landon said, covering his junk.
“Get me something strong, Landon,” Hailey said.
Landon jumped to action. “Um, right. Something strong.”
As he made his way over to my bar cart, I rushed into my bedroom and quickly pulled on some clothes and fixed my ponytail that had come a bit undone.
I walked back into the living room to see Landon handing Hailey a glass of what looked like whiskey. “What are you going to do?” he asked her.
I walked over and handed him his shirt. He slipped it on and said thank you, and then we both sat down on the love seat opposite the sofa.
Hailey downed her drink. Landon and I stared at her in shock.
“Christ, Hail. That was straight whiskey,” Landon said with a slight chuckle.
She nodded and wiped her mouth before she placed the glass—which had had at least three shots of whiskey in it—down onto the table.
“Mom invited us to have dinner with her tonight. I’m going to need you two to come as well.”
Landon and I exchanged a look that said a million things. Would we ever catch a break?
I brought my attention back to Hailey, who was still wiping at tears that wouldn’t seem to stop.
“Or course we’ll be there,” I said, wrapping my fingers around Landon’s. He nodded, but I could see the disappointment on his face.
“Then what are you going to do?” he asked.
“Then I’m going to pull out Mike’s phone, put it on speaker, and call the bitch.”
My mouth fell open as I asked, “In front of everyone?”
An evil smile spread over Hailey’s face. “Yep. But I’m going to time it right when I get Mike to say something so she’ll start speaking.”
“Dad will kill him, Hail,” Landon warned.
If it was at all possible, she smiled even wider. Her look turned from evil to downright frightening. “I know. It’s going to be glorious.”