Learning to Love Christmas: Audie and Calhoun 3 (Low Country Lovers) by McBryant Julia

Author:McBryant, Julia [McBryant, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2019-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

4

Calhoun

They put on their suits and stumble back upstairs. Everyone’s in the hot tub again. “And where were you two?” Amory takes a pull of Grey Goose and hands it off to Calhoun, who takes a shot and hands it back. They’d grabbed bottles of water on the way in. Baylor floats over to Audie, damn her, and wedges next to him.

“Napping,” Calhoun says at the same time Audie says, “Fucking.”

Everyone roars with laughter. Calhoun feels himself turn bright red, takes another shot of vodka to cover it up, and wishes Audie weren’t so totally unashamed of his sex life. Damn him. Calhoun would rather stand naked and sing Yankee Doodle Dandy than admit he and Audie were sleeping together downstairs.

“Calhoun, c’mon. It’s no big deal. Everyone does it.” Audie kisses him — with Baylor half in his lap. Calhoun bats him away. Audie pulls the pot out. Again. They all start smoking. Again. Everyone makes jokes about Audie being Snoop Dogg. “Dude, if y’all’d’ve tried this Alaskan Thunderfuck I had before I came, oh my god. It was so good.” He pauses. “Did you know ‘y’all’d’ve’ is one of the few contractions with three apostrophes? You all would have. ‘Y’all’d’ve.’”

“Oh my god, it totally is.” Henry stares off into the distance. “We say it all the time.”

A silence falls over the hot tub.

“Oh Jesus Christ in a goddamn manger, you people are so stoned.” Calhoun chugs some Grey Goose. “At least drunk people get loud.”

Audie sighs heavily.

Then Baylor sighs heavily.

So do Delia and Quinn.

“Ellis would kill your ass if he knew how high you were.” Calhoun puts his hands on his hips.

“Oh baby, don’t play policeman.” Audie drops his head in his hands.

“Ellis would be high along with us.” Amory says. “He probably has some of that Alaskan Thunderfuck at home.” He pauses. “Man, that’s either the name of a strain of weed or the best metal band to ever come out of Anchorage.”

Calhoun’s eyes widen. “Ellis smokes?!”

Quinn and Amory bust up laughing.

“Calhoun. Why are you so philosophically opposed to weed?” Baylor floats into Audie’s lap. Calhoun narrows his eyes at her.

“It just makes people boring.”

Meanwhile, Quinn and Isa are arguing about something. “What’s the deal?” Audie asks.

“Quinn says he’s going to tell everyone — this thing I do not want him to tell people — unless I eat pizza for dinner! I hate pizza!”

Well, that’s one way to try to get Isa to eat. Unfortunately, it’s a really bad one.

“Quinnie, shut up.” Delia crosses her arms at him.

“Yeah, shut the fuck up, Quinn.” Henry practically growls it. “She can have a salad like she always does.”

Calhoun realizes, touchingly, that the girls all know about Isa and Henry. Wills certainly knows, which means Crispin knows. He and Audie know; now Quinn and Amory apparently know. Lucky probably knows, though Delia may or may not have told him. Baylor almost certainly spilled it to Thor. The only people here that possibly don’t know are the Jasper twins, and that’s a slim maybe.

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