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We waited until he’d pulled out of the parking lot before we raced up the steps to get to Jinx.
We came skidding to a halt as one, even Shanti and Willow doing it, and they didn’t really know how huge this was.
“I don’t want to hear it,” Jinx said.
“You are oh so totally gonna hear it,” Jessie told her.
Jinx’s gaze moved to Shanti and Willow. “Who are these gringas?”
“We’ve expanded,” Raye said.
Jinx rolled her eyes and strutted into the motel room.
We strutted in after her.
Okay, all the rest of them did. I wasn’t able to strut. It was more like a bounce, something I was very good at.
The room smelled like spicy cologne, powdery perfume and sex.
The first two were okay, the last…?
I wrinkled my nose.
Luna flipped the comforter back on the sheets and sprawled on the bed like two people didn’t just finish copulating on it. Raye and Jessie joined her. Willow and I primly chose the chairs by the table at the window. Shanti pulled her bottom up on the wall-mounted dresser.
“Nice flowers,” Jessie drawled.
And they were nice. Deep-red roses with pink tulips shoved in. And there were a ton of roses.
That bouquet cost some cake, and I was loving this even more.
Jinx sent her a killing look, but when she turned to the flowers, her face got soft.
Oh my God!
“You like him!” I squealed.
Jinx shut down her expression. “Yeah, I like him. He’s got a big dick, and he isn’t afraid to tip.”
“You like more than his big dick,” Raye stated, and now it was her wagging her brows.
“Don’t get excited,” Jinx warned, horning her way into the reclining bodies and stretching out on the bed with her back to the headboard and her ankles crossed. “Men like him do things like that”—she jerked her head to the flowers—“to make them feel less dirty when they’re with a woman like me.”
Yuck.
I hated that Jinx looked at it that way.
“Uh, just to say,” Luna began, “that dude is hot. His body is nearly as jacked as the Hottie Squad. He might have had a hankering to walk on the wild side, but he found what he liked and he’s coming back for more, doing that when he knows he could pull a ride just about anywhere and not have to pay for it or bring flowers.”
“You need to lay off the romance novels,” Jinx snapped.
“I love me a romance novel,” Luna told her. “But I’m about as romantically inclined as you.”
“This is true,” Raye affirmed.
“We’re not talking about this,” Jinx decreed. “I got a car payment due, and it’s summer, so my electrical bill is out the roof. I gotta get back out there. What’s up?”
“First, let me introduce you to Sabina,” Raye began, and Shanti raised her hand.