“Well, I guess I was trying to see if he was okay and I happened to walk in on him taking a shower and I happened to just stand and watch like a creeper.”
Pepper laughed as she covered her mouth with her hands. “Oh my God, I love you. You would just sit there and watch.”
“It was hard not to. You’ve seen the man naked.” I looked around and leaned forward so only Pepper could hear me. “I want to ask you something, when I came to the Lafayette Club did I land in some kind of hot guy paradox? Because it seems like every guy Jett knows was made to melt panties right off, including Jett himself. God, he’s gorgeous,” I said as I thought about Jett and his tender kisses he rained upon me before he left me here.
“I think the same thing sometimes. It’s not fair to be surrounded by so many attractive men but it just gives me more ammo for when I bust out the old jack rabbit.”
“Jack rabbit?”
“Yeah, my very own Magic Mike.” I gave her a quizzical look, making her continue. “You know…dildo, Lo. I’m talking about a dildo.”
Laughing, I said, “I know. I just wanted to hear you say it.”
“You’re a bitch.” She smiled as she bent down and grabbed the white bag that she brought with her. “This is for you. It’s from lover boy,” Pepper carried out, making fun of me.
I snatched the bag from her and opened it up. Inside there was a croissant. I looked up at her with a quizzical eyebrow.
“You’re supposed to eat it.”
“No shit, but why a croissant?”
“I think there is a note in there.”
I grabbed the croissant and saw a note at the bottom of the bag.
For my little one. I know how much you love our croissants, I couldn’t bear to think of you waking up and not getting one today. I’m sorry about all of this. Please be patient with me. – J
“He’s sweet,” I said while taking a bite and pulling away. I nearly choked as I looked on the inside of the croissant. It was bright green. I laughed to myself as Pepper looked at me as if I were crazy.
Swallowing and setting the other piece in the bag, I asked, “So, is that why you came here, to deliver me food?”
“Nope, I’m here to spend some time with you. We’re on rotation. Jett didn’t want you to feel secluded from the girls or feel lonely so you will be getting a visit from each of us every day while you’re here.”
“Really?” I asked excited. “Did he tell you what’s going on?”
“Not really.” Pepper sat in one of the ribbons with ease like a swing. She made it look so simple. “He just told us that he fucked up and that you’re in trouble now and he had to remove you to protect you but you were still an item.”
“He called us an item?” I said a little too giddy.
“Yes, it was kind of cute. He was shy about it.”
My heart melted from hearing that even though I wasn’t around, he still showed how much he cared about me.
“That kind of makes me happy,” I admitted.
“You so have him wrapped around your finger. You should have seen the way he lit up when talking about you. It was nice to see him finally find someone to bring him such joy. Before, he was just floating around, but never really feeling and then you come around and flip his whole world upside down. It’s kind of awesome.” Pepper smiled.
“Yeah, too bad we can’t be together right now.”
Pepper’s face grew serious as she said, “Give it time, Lo. Jett knows what he’s doing. He doesn’t fuck around. He is doing this for a reason so you just need to be patient.”
“It’s hard when my pussy is crying for him.”
Pepper looked at me for a second and then burst out in laughter. “You’re ridiculous.”
“Do you know what’s ridiculous?”
“What?” she asked while slightly swinging back and forth.
“The fact that you haven’t given me details about sex with Kace.”
Rolling her eyes, Pepper said, “I’m going to go now.”
“No! Okay, we will talk about something else. Tell me, were his balls big?”
“I’m leaving.” Pepper got up but I stopped her while laughing.
“You’re sucking all the fun out of this.”
“Get to work.” Pepper nodded toward the sketch Diego wanted me to replicate. I rolled my eyes as she took her seat in the swing again and started studying the instructions Diego left for me. At least I had company that was a plus, even if it wasn’t Jett.
Chapter Twenty Four
“Cool Kids”
Lo
“How’s it going in here?” Diego asked, startling me from my concentration.
“Don’t do that,” I said while gripping my heart and checking my lines to make sure they were still on point.
“Do what? Talk to you?”
“No, sneak up on me.”
“I didn’t sneak up on you. Sneaking up on you would have called for me getting right next to your ear like this and whispering in your ear,” he said as he invaded my space.
Swatting him away, I said, “All right, I get your point.” I sat back and looked at my work. I was clearly still in the ribbon room since the picture he wanted me to paint was a ribbon-like banner with intricate lettering that said, “Constrain my heart, constrain my soul.”
“It looks really good, Goldie.”
“Thanks, I’m not done yet, obviously. I still have a lot of shading to do and I want to add an outline to the letters to make them stand out a little bit more but I think it’s coming out nicely.”
“It is.” He surveyed my work. “I like how you made the ribbon look like it was falling and spanned it across the wall. I didn’t think of that.”
“Yeah, it takes up the wall more so it doesn’t look like this tiny drawing on a big space.”
“I like it a lot. I’m glad Jett sent you here.”
“Thanks. It’s been fun painting. Right now I would be practicing my presentations until Kace stopped cracking his whip so it’s nice to have a bit of a break.”
Diego laughed as he shook his head. “That dude needs to get a woman.”
“Right!” I exclaimed. “Thank you! I’ve been saying that for a while.”
“It would do him some good. Too bad his eyes wander to places where they don’t belong,” Diego looked at me for a second and then turned his gaze to my artwork.
Guilt washed over me as I thought about what Kace said to me in his room a while back. I tried to forget about it, like he wanted to but occasionally it would resurface and I would feel awful. I hated to think that Kace had such strong feelings for me and I didn’t reciprocate them. I liked him and hell yeah I thought he was hot as hell, but my heart belonged to someone else, it belonged to Kace’s best friend.
“Anyway, are you hungry? It’s past lunch and I thought we could get out of here for a bit. Get you away from the paint fumes.”
I looked down at my attire and said, “Can I take a two-second shower?”
“Are you one of those girls who says they’ll be quick but they really take an hour?”
“No, seriously time me. Give me five minutes.”
“Five minutes? No way.”
“I’m serious,” I said while getting up and wrapping my paint brush in saran wrap since I didn’t have to wash them out just yet but didn’t want the paint to dry out in them.
Diego held out his watch and said, “Okay, go!”
“Wait!” I shouted, holding up my arms. “You can’t start the time until I get up to my room, that’s not fair. I don’t even know where my room is, I can’t remember.”
“Ugh, you’re so high maintenance,” he joked as he walked me to my room. “Okay, when do I get to start the clock?”
I shut the door on his face and yelled, “Go!”
Like a mad woman, I tore my clothes off, turned on the water and brushed my teeth while the water froze my tits right off. With one hand I brushed my teeth and the other I washed my hair like a pro. As I rinsed my shampoo, I washed my body with soap working up a good lather. After I got all the shampoo out, I put in some conditioner and then rinsed my entire body. I was out in less than two minutes. Thankfully, Diego had a heat lamp in the bathroom so I turned that on as I whipped the towel around my body, barely drying off the droplets from my skin. The heat lamp heated up my body as I combed my hair out, threw it up in a bun and then put a little mascara on—I wasn’t a barbarian.