Break the Ice by Piper Rayne

Author:Piper Rayne
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Thirteen

Game night at the Walshes is no joke—running tallies, razzing and competitiveness that put me, Grady and Dax to shame. I’ve seen Zoe in tears, I’ve seen Skylar punch her brother in the shoulder. The Walshes are ruthless and as much as they laugh during these nights, they bicker, too. It fascinated me at first until I realized it’s survival of the fittest. I don’t cry, and her brother and I don’t fight, but Skylar didn’t talk to me for a week once. Long story.

Skylar’s putting out the chips and her mom’s seven-layer taco dip, while I’ve made sure the fridge is stocked with beer. The door opens, and I wait to hear the thumping of little footsteps, but Zoe and Vin round the corner with a brown grocery bag and a case of beer.

“What’s this?” Skylar rears back from the table, surprise written all over her face.

“We’re kid-free!” Zoe starts shaking her hips and then her and Vin start grinding with the bag between them.

“Aw, I’d rented some kid’s movies and everything.” Skylar hurries over and takes the bag from her sister’s arms.

“Vin’s parents wanted them for a night and who are we to deny them their wonderfully well-behaved grandchildren.” She cocks her eye to Vin who looks like he’s about a second from laughing.

“They helped mold them,” he adds, raising the case of beer in his hand. Alpha Beer, the Greek beer he says grows thicker hair on your chest. Must work for your back, too, based on the time Vin and I hit the hot tub when they visited in Utah.

Vin and I take a seat in the adjoining living room while Zoe and Skylar continue preparations in the kitchen. The two of them are laughing off and on and I can’t help but think how since she met Mauro, Skylar’s been in a good mood. I have no idea if they’ve talked or texted, and part of me wishes her phone would malfunction and lose just his number altogether.

“Hello, hello!” Chelsea walks in with a bag full of liquor. “I heard a rumor.” She stops in the middle of the room, looking right and left. She holds her finger to her lips and we all play her little game of keeping quiet. “Adult night!” her hips slide from side to side as her knees bend and she moves down and twists back up. “It’s party time!”

“Great,” I mumble, getting rewarded with a carrot thrown at my forehead. I pick it up and chomp down on it while looking at Zoe. “Who brought this nutritious crap into the house?”

Zoe smirks and the front door opens again.

Skylar’s brother, Mike waltzes in. Now here’s a guy I like. Carefree, just moved into downtown on his own. He brings a different girl to every game night that I’ve been to and although Skylar’s mom always acts like the random girl could be the one, everyone else is well aware she isn’t.

“Mikey!” Vin and I yell in unison.

He holds up a bottle of tequila in one hand, a bag of limes in the other.

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