Finding Freedom (The Rose City Series Book 2) by Valentina Burns

Author:Valentina Burns [Burns, Valentina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Valentina Burns
Published: 2023-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

On Tuesday morning, Ivy walked through the front door of the gym only to be faced with Wendy, Christine, and Erica leaning up against the reception desk, chins in palms, waiting for the firefighters to arrive for their training session. As had become a habit over the last few weeks.

“You guys are ridiculous,” Ivy said grumpily, swinging her bag off her shoulder and dumping it on the floor behind the desk.

“Somebody needs a pumpkin spiced latte,” was Wendy’s reply.

Ivy ignored her. She did need a pick-me-up, but hell would freeze over before she admitted that to these three. “What are you going to do in a couple weeks when the charity fight is over and the guys don’t show up for training anymore?”

“Ugh, I don’t know.” Christine sighed dejectedly. “Start a fire?” She glanced at Ivy as she twirled one of her boxer braids between her fingers.

“I’m hoping they’ll keep coming back. I mean, why work that hard to get bodies like they have and then drop it altogether? Maybe they’ll take some of my classes. I should tell Sean to give me a plug before he sets them loose.” Wendy flipped her straight, ebony ponytail over her shoulder as she turned to face Ivy. “Speaking of Sean. What’s the scoop on Saturday night?”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Ivy evaded. She hadn’t seen Sean since their awkward moment in the hall, which was unusual because they usually saw each other daily. She was trying not to read too much into it.

“So, you didn’t leave our girls’-night-out-turned-engagement-party early to go fuck his brains out in your apartment?” Wendy asked with a flutter of eyelashes.

“You know, for someone so sweet looking, you sure have a filthy mouth on you,” Ivy said, hoping more than anything to avoid the conversation Wendy was angling at.

“Oh please, if all the sexy as hell guys around here can swear up a storm, why can’t I? I’m so over all the fucking double standards.”

True. Still, Ivy didn’t feel like discussing that her newly discovered sex life might have dried up as quickly as it had come. But since she couldn’t seem to divert the conversation, she’d have to change the subject. She pointed at Erica.

“Hey, didn’t you get engaged over the weekend? Does Anna know you are sitting here waiting for hot guys to walk by so you can ogle their asses?”

Erica looked from Wendy to Christine. “She’s deflecting.”

“She is,” Christine said, looking at Ivy as she spoke. “Could mean one of two things. One, it was bad. Or two, it was amazing, but it hasn’t happened again and now she’s worried that she did something wrong.”

“Hmmm. I’m gonna go with door number two,” Erica guessed.

“Oh, for Pete’s sake!” Ivy threw up her hands. “You guys are hopeless. Maybe I don’t boink and tell. Has that ever occurred to you?”

Wendy gave her an astonished look. “Boink the hottest guy in the gym and not tell your girlfriends about it? It’s simply not done.”

“Co-workers,” Ivy corrected on instinct, and all three women snickered.

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