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Jade rolled her eyes. “Dear God. Please stop thinking. I swear I’ll hang up right now if you tell me this is just another Sienna should I, shouldn’t I gab-fest.”

Once again, Sterling answered for her. “It’s not. She’s going to do it.”

Hope smiled. “I think that’s awesome. Daniel is gorgeous and funny and smart and so nice to your brothers.”

Hope’s list went a long way to easing her fears, but deep inside, Sienna still wasn’t sure she had the nerve to go through with it.

“Great, Hope,” Jade interrupted. “But FYI, none of that matters. This is just sex, right, Sienna?”

Sienna nodded quickly. That was the only part of this whole crazy scheme she was certain of. She’d just gotten out of a long-term relationship, if Sienna could call her “break” from Josh getting out. In reality, she wasn’t sure she was out at all. She and Josh had dodged the conversation at Thanksgiving, settling nothing.

The only thing she knew for sure was she wanted to have sex with Daniel. Her heart wasn’t ready to jump into anything else, but her body, well, that was a different story. Daniel had uncovered her previously undiscovered libido and, since she was a free woman, she didn’t see any harm in exploring the uncharted territory. “It’s just sex.”

“Well, then the answer is simple. Shower, shave, makeup, lingerie.” Jade consulted the time on the phone. “It’s almost eleven now. You can be at his RV by midnight.”

“Tonight? Oh no. I wasn’t even considering?—”

“It has to be tonight, Sienna.” Sterling’s assurance took her aback.

“Why?”

Hope smiled sympathetically. “Because we know you. If you don’t go now, you’ll lay awake all night making a list of reasons why you shouldn’t. And then tomorrow…”

Hope shrugged, letting Sienna fill in the unspoken you won’t go.

She started to argue, promise them she’d follow through with the plan later, but they were right. The words died on her lips.

Vivi’s advice drifted through her mind.

Live in the moment.

Sterling piped in with her own advice. “And don’t get nervous and start babbling.”

“I don’t do that,” Sienna protested.

Hope giggled. “Remember your college graduation party when Uncle Seth suggested that you say something to everyone?”

Sienna tilted her head haughtily. “I hate public speaking.”

Jade laughed as well. “It was just family and a few close friends from town. I’d hardly call that public.”

“There were nearly sixty people there and they were all looking at me,” Sienna clarified.

“And you rambled for close to twenty minutes, thanking basically every single person you’d ever met in your life as well as the guy who delivered the booze.” Sterling shook her head. “When you get anxious, inane words fly out in a steady stream.”

“Fine, I’ll keep my mouth shut.”

“Um, Jade,” Sterling said suddenly.

Jade was standing with her back to the parking lot. Hope’s eyes went wide as Sienna grinned. “Yeah?”

“Don’t turn around,” Sterling instructed.

If there was one thing they all knew about Jade, it was that they should never tell her not to do something. To do so was the equivalent of a dare and Sterling knew it.

Jade glanced over her shoulder just in time to spot crazy Stanley’s bare ass as he mooned her.

“What the fuck are you doing?” Jade yelled as Sienna, Hope and Sterling burst into loud laughter.