Total pages in book: 78
Estimated words: 77415 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 387(@200wpm)___ 310(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77415 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 387(@200wpm)___ 310(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
Ellen’s eyes turned to him.
“You don’t even know your mother all that well, son,” I sat back in my seat.
Linc shrugged.
“So, obviously, that one doesn’t apply to me.”
I rolled my eyes.
“I’d rather not have an orgasm induced by a man again,” she said softly.
Her voice hit me like a ton of bricks right to the center of my chest.
I snorted, as did the rest of the room.
Who did she turn that glare onto, though?
Me.
My lips twitched at the pissed off look on her face, and she caught it, narrowing her eyes even further.
Would it be bad to tell her she looked like she was sucking on a lemon?
“All right, now you draw a number from the stack. And the person with that number is the one you ask the question.”
Ellen did as Tommy Tom asked, and showed the number to the room as she said, “Four.”
I glared at the stupid red four on my card, then tilted my head up to look at the woman that was about to ask me something.
Great. I now had to politely converse with her without saying anything inappropriate or letting on that I knew her beyond meeting her here.
“Oh, Dad! That’s you!” Linc said helpfully from my side.
Ellen’s eyes tipped up as she stared at me with barely controlled glee.
Then, she lifted the card up to her face, and promptly blushed from the tips of her toes to the roots of her hair.
“I can’t read this,” she hissed at her brother, turning on him with an accusing look.
Tommy Tom grinned.
“Yes you can. Just do it.”
She licked her lips nervously, looked at me, and then cleared her throat.
“Come on, read it!”
That was Tally, who was laughing on the perch of her seat on the other side of Tommy.
Ellen scratched her head.
“Would you,” she cleared her throat again. “Would you rather…would you rather watch me have sex with someone or have sex with someone while I watched.”
She read it so fast toward the end that I held up my hand and made a ‘repeat’ motion.
She gritted her teeth and read it again.
“Would you rather watch me have sex with someone or have sex with someone while I watched.”
She about choked on the last two words, and it took everything I had in me not to laugh at the predicament that her brother had put her in.
The only reason I was able to hold in the laughter was the look of terror in her eyes.
She didn’t want to know the answer.
I could read the truth in her eyes.
She was scared of what I might say, and not because she cared that everyone would know that, at one point in time, we’d been an item. But because she didn’t want to know I’d be willing to do either one.
Which was the truth.
I wouldn’t. Not ever.
It didn’t matter how upset I was, I wouldn’t do that to her.
I wasn’t that type of man.
“That one sucks. Read another,” I finally answered.
Relief poured through her shoulders, but then Tommy Tom spoke, pouring fat into the fire.
“You have to answer. Those’re the rules of the game.”
I shrugged.
“Then I won’t play,” I finally answered.
Tally’s eyes widened.
Linc snorted at my side.
Ellen looked down at her hands.
“Party-pooper. Ask him another one, Sis.”
Thankful that she would have a reprieve, Ellen flipped to the next card and blanched even whiter.
She flipped to the next card, and then grimaced.
“Shit, I’m getting a phone call.”
Ellen stood up and answered her phone, walking out of the room without a backwards glance, leaving the rest of us reeling.
“I think you found a winning game,” Tally laughed. “Operation embarrass your sister is in full effect.”
Tommy Tom grinned.
“Shit, Dad,” Linc said. “I think I forgot my gear in the back of Atley’s truck.”
I turned my annoyed glare on my kid.
“I told you last week that if you ever did that again, the gear was staying.”
Linc snorted.
“Yeah, I also remember you saying that if I ever forgot my backpack or lunch you wouldn’t bring it to me. Yet, you’ve done that about eighteen thousand times over my school career.”
I ruffled Linc’s hair.
“Let’s go then,” I grunted, standing up.
“Awww, not you, too!” Tommy Tom said. “You said an hour!”
“That’s because this game is stupid,” Big Papa grunted. “We will never be in any of these situations, picking between which one of these crazy ass things we’d rather do. Like, when will I ever be given the opportunity to suck some woman’s tits in public? They’d run screaming, and I’d lose my job in a fuckin’ heartbeat.”
Chuckling, I offered Tommy Tom my cards, as Linc followed suit.
I stopped beside the chair where Ellen had placed her cards, the four slick pieces of hard paper falling to the floor in her haste to get out of the room, and I realized exactly why she wasn’t willing to read any of them.