Total pages in book: 152
Estimated words: 155037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 775(@200wpm)___ 620(@250wpm)___ 517(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 155037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 775(@200wpm)___ 620(@250wpm)___ 517(@300wpm)
As they made their way to her table, everyone stopped talking to stare at her in shock.
They were all here. Her girls. With their men at the table behind them.
“I’m not gonna have to sit at the Daddy table, am I?” Loki teased her quietly.
No doubt he’d felt her tension.
“Relax, baby,” Remy told her. “We won’t let anyone hurt you.”
She wasn’t worried about that exactly.
“If they do, I’ll kill them,” Loki promised.
She patted his arm even though she knew he didn’t mean it.
Well . . . maybe he did.
Remy moved forward and drew out her chair, staring around at everyone.
Even Kiesha was lost for words, her mouth open as she gaped at them.
Loki helped her sit. “I’m gonna order some food for you, okay? You’ll eat it.”
A blush worked its way up her cheeks but she nodded.
“And I’ll be just here.” Remy nodded over to where he usually stood. “Remember what we talked about.” Remy looked at them both.
Right. Which was mostly about her safety. If she needed to go to the restroom, she was to tell Remy first. If a fight broke out, then she was to go straight to him.
But he’d also talked to Loki about not getting into a fight.
They both stood and started moving away after each kissing her.
Kiesha turned to her. “Isabelle Ashley, you’ve got some explaining to do!”
Ten minutes later, they were still staring at her again after she’d gone through everything that had happened.
Thankfully, there was still fifteen minutes before the quiz started. Although she kind of wished it was starting now so she could avoid all these questions.
“That. Is. So Cool!” Kiesha cried, leaning across the table to hug her.
Georgie smiled at her. “You’re happy?”
“Happier than I’ve ever been in my life.”
“Then I’m happy for you,” Georgie told her.
Juliet nodded and leaned in to cuddle her briefly. That was big from Juliet.
Isa snuck a look at Cleo. She knew she’d be the hardest to convince. Cleo was staring over at Loki. “I always wondered if the two of you would ever admit to how you felt about each other.”
“You knew?” she asked.
“Oh yeah. I saw the way you stared at each other. He’s a surprise.” She pointed over at Remy who stared back at them steadily. She felt bad that he was alone, but she didn’t know how to fix that.
Did he want to sit at the Daddy table, as Loki liked to call it?
“Loki’s Warriors are gonna win tonight!” someone roared.
She had to grin as she glanced over and saw Loki smiling. Although it made her feel even more sad for Remy.
“He’s a good surprise,” Isa said.
Cleo snorted. “That remains to be seen.”
“He is,” she said firmly. “I know that no one knows him that well and he seems standoffish but he’s good to me and Loki, and I won’t have anyone treating him badly.”
They all gaped at her. She understood it. She wasn’t normally someone who got so forceful or laid down the law.
But everyone needed to accept Remy.
“I haven’t told him this yet, but I’m in love with him. Just like I am with Loki. He’s here for good.”
“As long as he’s good to you, then he’s good with us,” Kiesha said. Then she jumped up and walked over to Remy.
As Isa watched on anxiously, she said something to him. And he actually smiled.
“Wow,” Georgie said. “When he smiles . . .” she trailed off and fanned herself.
Ed shot her a sharp look and she smiled at him.
Yeah. He was something else. And he was all hers.
Kiesha bounced back, stopping to talk to Harry before taking a seat.
“What did you say to him?” she asked.
“I told him that he better treat my best friend well or I was going to put laxative in his coffee and get him arrested on false charges.”
Isa gaped at Kiesha.
“And he just smiled?” Cleo asked. “Hmm. Okay, I’ll keep an open mind.”
Isa rolled her eyes. She hoped Remy wasn’t offended. But then Harry got up and approached him, gesturing to the table. Remy nodded. Then after a moment, he shook his head. Her heart sunk before she saw him gesture over to Loki.
Oh.
She got it then.
It wasn’t that he was refusing to sit with the other men. It was that he couldn’t keep an eye on them both if he was sitting, like he could if he stood where he did every quiz night.
Warmth filled her and she sent him a wide smile.
He just winked back at her.
Yeah . . . she loved this guy.
“There’s something else,” she blurted out.
They all looked at her.
“You’re pregnant,” Juliet whispered.
“Whoa. Dude, was that a joke?” Kiesha asked.
Juliet went pink and Isa grinned at her. “No, I’m, uh . . . a Little.”
There was silence.
“Sorry I didn’t tell you guys. You’re not mad, are you?”
Kiesha grinned while Cleo snorted.