Page 32 of Is It Casual Now?

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“I just have one more question.” Jamie leaned forward in the small seat across from Bunny and Piper on the couch. She was trying her best to not flip out and fangirl over them, and so far, she thought she was holding her own. The way Bunny exuded so much confidence was outstanding. Jamie wished she could do that.

Sliding forward in the chair, Jamie put her pen to paper to wait for this response. It was going to be a good one. Bunny’s gaze dropped from Jamie’s face to her breasts before flicking back up. Definite queer vibe, even if Bunny wasn’t ever going to admit it to the world. Still, Jamie would love to be the one to break that story.

But not today.

She glanced at Siena, waiting for permission to ask the one question that she hadn’t gotten permission for. She held Siena’s gaze and waited explicitly for her okay to continue. When Siena gave her a small smile and held her hand out in front of her, Jamie had it.

She nearly couldn’t believe this was her life right now.

She’d been trying to get an interview with these two, an exclusive, for years. And now she was finally getting it! The little kid inside her danced for joy. She just had to contain it a bit longer so she didn’t look like a complete loon while Bunny and Piper were in front of her.

“The suspense is killing me,” Bunny muttered, but her lips curled upward slightly at the corner.

Had she enjoyed this interview too? Or perhaps Jamie’s charm was just too much for her to resist?

“Jamie,” Siena said, a slight warning in her tone. “Ask the question.”

“Are you sure? Don’t need to censor it?” Jamie asked, teasing.

Bunny’s eyebrows went up immediately, as did Piper’s. Jamie might have just outed them entirely. That would be an interesting conversation later.

“I’m sure.” Siena nodded again. “Ask away. I’m fairly sure that Bunny and Piper can hold their own against you.”

“Then you’re here to…watch me work?” Jamie winked at Siena, her grin growing wildly.

“Uh… I think we can skip the last question and talk about this.” Bunny pointed between the two of them. “What the hell is going on?”

“Now you got her one-track mind started. Appreciate that.” Siena’s cheeks pinked, and she looked away from Jamie and at her clients on the couch. “We’ll talk after the interview is done.”

Bunny narrowed her gaze. “I’ll hold you to that. All right, Jamie, what’s the question?”

“What made you choose Siena as your manager all those years ago?” Jamie kept her pen to her paper, but she didn’t look at it. Instead, she looked directly at Siena. She wanted that reaction. No one else in this room mattered.

“That’s an… odd question for an interview about us,” Piper said, smiling as she leaned forward slightly .

Jamie smiled, seeing the same shock across Siena’s face that she was hearing in Piper’s voice. “It is. But it’s the only question that I’ve wanted to ask you for months now.”

“Months, huh?” Bunny guffawed. “I would have texted you that answer in one word.”

“Really?” Siena snapped her attention to Bunny.

Jamie also turned to face down the rockstars on the couch. “What word?”

“Perfect.”

Jamie couldn’t have agreed more. Siena was perfect for this job in more ways than she could count. And she was perfect in more ways beyond just the job. Jamie wrote the word down on her notepad.

“She really is perfect for us, isn’t she?” Piper added, her foot bouncing the entire time. Jamie had noticed in the past that she did that during her interviews. But she didn’t get the sense that it was a nervous habit, just a way of restraining the immense amount of energy she had.

Jamie waited. She knew that there was more to come, that Bunny and Piper weren’t done yet. Because this was the way that they were going to talk without stopping. They were going to get so engrossed with talking about Siena that she would learn all of their secrets.

“We first met Siena when she was new to the business and so were we.” Bunny put her hand on Piper’s knee and squeezed before releasing it. “It was a risk for us and a risk for her, and we all knew that going in, but Siena knows how to negotiate a contract.”

“So does Bunny!” Siena chimed in.

Jamie sent her a scolding look, telling her silently that this interview wasn’t about her.

“We knew we needed a new manager because our last one was… ”

“Homophobic,” Piper said loudly. “Sexist. Condescending.”

“All those and more,” Bunny added, rolling her eyes. “And we’d been doing without a manager for quite some time because we just didn’t have the desire to go through that experience again.”

Jamie waited patiently, learning more information about the three people in this room than from any other question she’d asked that day. This was one that would open them up and get them talking for hours.

“Siena was down to earth, calm, and had a million and one ideas.”

“Oh my God, the ideas!” Piper laughed. “She wanted to take on the world.”

Bunny laughed right along with her. “She did. And she had plans and backup plans and backup to the backup plans.”

“She even had them colorized and listed out in phases that they were going to happen in,” Piper added.

Jamie shook her head. Siena was so much like Jessie in that respect. Jamie was the complete opposite. She had no plan when it came to her business or her blogs or trying to get her name out there. She just knew what she wanted, and she worked her tail off to get it—as chaotically as it came.

“Bunny and Siena can talk business, and Siena and I can talk creatively.” Piper smiled over at Siena. “She really is the perfect blend for both of us. And that’s worked to all of our advantages.”

“It helps that she’s hot!” Bunny said, grinning broadly. “And she’s not afraid to use her looks to her advantage or to put down the jerks.”

Jamie laughed at that. She loved listening to these two talk. It was like they were their own little family together, all of them supporting each other no matter what came their way. Jamie turned to Siena and couldn’t stop looking at her. She loved these two so deeply. That’s what she’d been protecting. Not their careers, not their lives—she’d been protecting them, and her love of them was what pushed that through.

“I think that’s plenty for Jamie,” Siena said, but she wasn’t looking at Bunny and Piper. She was looking directly at Jamie, their eyes completely locked together. Jamie couldn’t look away. She was entranced, completely captivated, and she wasn’t sure she ever wanted to look away.

Bunny and Piper eventually left after giving Jamie a pleasant goodbye. She couldn’t help but think that Bunny was eyeing her over for an entirely different reason, trying to judge why Jamie had gotten the privilege of being the one to interview them and write up this article, especially when she hadn’t shown up the last time she’d had the chance. Jamie had held her own in that conversation though, and she’d gotten looks of praise from Siena for it.

This was more than a client relationship for Siena. This was a deep friendship, perhaps even family. And Jamie was getting to witness a piece of that. She’d definitely add that into her story somehow. It needed to be in there.

That was what would humanize all of them. Friendship and love. Jamie smiled at herself when she had that thought. It certainly had done wonders for her, hadn’t it? Even Jessie had commented on how calm and content she seemed to be lately. It wasn’t that falling in love with Siena had dampened any of her passions. In fact, it had intensified them. But it had also shown her that with support and hope, she could get whatever it was she wanted in life.

Siena caught her hand just before she was about to walk out the door and pulled Jamie into her, tilting her back and kissing her deeply. Siena held her close before pushing her into the wall next to the door and continuing to kiss her deeply. Jamie wrapped her arms around Siena’s back, plunging her fingers into Siena’s hair and holding onto her tightly. She curled her ankle around Siena’s legs and pulled her in even closer.

If Jamie didn’t know better, she was pretty sure that they were about to have another quickie in the office. She started laughing when Siena pulled back slightly and shook her head in response to Jamie’s outburst.

“That’s the question you were dying to ask them?”

“Yeah,” Jamie answered, her voice rough with arousal and deep with tension. “What about it?”

“Nothing.” Siena kissed her loudly and then pressed a line of kisses down Jamie’s neck to the tops of her breasts, which were exposed in the cut of her shirt. “You could have asked that one before.”

“I didn’t want you to know.” Jamie scraped her nails along Siena’s scalp, pulling her deeper into her body. “I wanted you to be surprised. And them.” She started to breathe heavier.

“Why?”

“Because I’d get a more honest answer that way.” Jamie slid her hand down to Siena’s ass and squeezed. “Are we doing this here or at home? Because I’m not sure Paula is ready to walk in on us just yet.”

Siena groaned, no doubt annoyed with the reminder that they were still in her office and were definitely not alone.

“I’d rather be able to scream when you want me to,” Jamie added, curling her fingers around Siena’s cheek in a tender touch. She’d been doing more and more of that lately. And Jamie was surprised, but she loved it. She loved being able to be this close with someone who wasn’t her family and who had actually chosen to be this close with her.

“You make a tempting offer,” Siena whispered and then leaned in, nipping Jamie’s earlobe.

Jamie had no doubt that she was going to torture them both until they really had to decide if a quickie was worth the risk or not. But Jamie hadn’t worn a short dress today, which was going to make the quick part brutally hard.

“I heard you’re good at negotiating.” Jamie moved her hand around Siena’s front, trailing her fingers over her breast and then back up, but not before circling her hardened nipple and teasing it with a flick. “What say you… leave work early and ravish me at home?”

“You draw a hard bargain, Jamie.” Siena kissed her quickly.

“I do. It’s all because I love you.” Jamie looked up into Siena’s eyes, wanting to hear and feel the reaction that Siena had to that little tidbit of information. She hadn’t been sure that she was going to tell her yet, but the moment seemed right. And as soon as the words were loosed, Jamie was glad she’d made the confession.

“You sure about that?” Siena asked, nipping at Jamie’s neck and then sucking quickly. “Because you could just be horny. I’m pretty sure that you told me that you didn’t need to be wined and dined.”

“Oh, I did. But…I think you changed my mind on that one.” Jamie gasped when Siena hit a particularly sensitive spot. “I quite like it when you kneel at my feet for me.”

Siena laughed hard. She pulled away, unable to stop the laughter from leaving her lips. “I’ll see you tonight.”

“Fine. Tonight it is.” Jamie gave her an exaggerated pout. She was going to be walking around with wet underwear for the rest of the day until Siena made good on her promise tonight.

“We should talk about a job I might have found for you tonight too.” Siena sat down at her desk, sliding into the chair like she was all business now. Jamie was jealous of how quickly Siena could go from seduction to work like that.

“Oh? ”

“Yeah. Tonight.” Siena glanced over the computer. “I’d rather not talk about it here.”

“All right.” Jamie was curious now, but she knew there was no way to push Siena to get an answer without arguing. And the last thing she wanted to do was start a fight just to get information and then not be able to get out of it later when what she really wanted was a good fucking. “Tonight then.”

Jamie opened the door, ready to leave when Siena’s voice stopped her.

“Oh, and Jamie?”

“Yeah?”

“I love you, too.”

Elation hit Jamie first. Her cheeks burning, not from arousal, but from excitement. She’d never heard those words from anyone before. And they meant so much. She gave Siena a huge wink, one that was over the top, and then she left. There was no way she was going to be able to wipe the grin from her lips now.

This was everything and more.