Page 97 of Pick Six

“Cause you’re going to do it for my camera. They’ll be tasteful. We won’t show too much. Just enough to titillate, you know.” Joss winks at him. “If I get enough of the guys on the team we’ll make a calendar. We’ll even make a few of them signed editions.”

“Who else has agreed to this?”

“Xander and Tobias are both on board, right boys?” Joss lifts her eyes to them and they both nod.

“Waylon?” Ben looks to him.

“I’ll jump if you jump, and if Mac okays it.”

“I’ll okay it for charity, and you know… as long as they’re not getting to see too much.” Mac gives Joss a look and she smiles.

Violet slides me a piece of cake, and I take it along with a fork.

“Tasteful. I promise. Violet’s seen my work before.”

“And yet she hasn’t agreed.” Mac looks to Violet.

“I’m going to agree. I’m just possessive is all.” Violet shrugs, waving a piece of cake toward Mac. “Joss does good work and she’s gonna have even more women drooling over them.”

“Their egos are already sky high.” Mac looks at Waylon and raises a brow.

“I can’t help it they all want this.” Waylon winks at her.

“Yeah well they aren’t getting it.”

“Of course not. Only one woman in the world knows how to argue her way into bed with me.”

I smile as I watch the two of them bantering back and forth. Violet slips Colt and me our slices of cake, but Drew shakes his head. It annoys me that he won’t just eat a piece of cake at this party. Like participating is beneath him.

“Has Colt agreed?” Ben looks up at Joss, and I swear I see a flicker of a devious grin come and go on his lips.

“Not yet.” Colt, who’s sitting to my right, pipes in before Joss can reply, and she shoots him a pointed glare.

“If you can get the priest to say yes, I’ll do it.” Ben and Joss lock eyes and something floats between the two of them I can’t quite read. Colt for his part focuses on his cake, eating like they’re not having some sort of silent war over him.

“Do you not feel comfortable?” I ask him quietly.

His eyes flick up to mine, and a warm smile crosses his face. “I could be convinced.” His eyes drift to Joss and then slip over her form.

I need to ask Violet what the story is there because Colt and Joss seem like polar opposites, but I’ve also never seen Colt look at a woman the way he’s been looking at her tonight.

“So I need to lean on the photographer then?” I smirk.

“Might help the case.”

“Does she know how to bribe you?”

“I’m sure she has some good guesses.”

“I see.” I grin, and just then Joss looks at me, raising a brow.

“Don’t be over there conspiring with him Harper. He’ll lead you down a dark path. Trust me.”

“If she can handle Xander, I think she can handle Colt,” Ben interjects, and both Joss and I look at him. I can feel Drew tense next to me and Ben’s eyes go wide and shoot to the side. I stop myself from looking at Alex because I know what I’ll see.

“Ben, dearest, I think you should probably just eat your cake unless this is the age you planned to die.” Violet kisses his cheek.

“It’s his birthday. He can start shit on his birthday,” Waylon defends him.