Ruthless (Playboys in Love) by Gina L. Maxwell

Author:Gina L. Maxwell
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled; Scorched; erotica; erotic; erotic romance; playboy; playboys in love; menage; Gina L. Maxwell; Shameless
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Scorched)
Published: 2017-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Addison

What’s better than a combo ladies’ night-graduation party at your bestie’s suburban home on a warm late-summer evening? Knowing that at the end of the night, I get to meet up with my smokin’ hot stripper-lawyer of a boyfriend and have scorching sex until we pass out in each other’s arms from orgasm exhaustion.

Just thinking about it has me smiling as I take a drink of my mojito, made fresh by Janey’s cousin Elizabeth. Months ago, at the twenty-first birthday party of Elizabeth’s younger sister, Julia, Lizzie promised Jane a blowout graduation party. Not that this is for quiet Jane’s benefit so much as for the rest of us obnoxious asshats, but whatever. Originally it was going to be at Aunt Martha’s, but Chance insisted we have it here because he doesn’t trust the cousins not to order strippers like they’d hired the guys from Playboys 4 Hire for Julia’s shindig. He’s a wee bit protective—and by that, I mean the man goes ape-shit crazy if he even thinks another man looks sideways at his ladylove. It makes me horribly sappy to think about it. Which means I need to shake off the warm-and-fuzzies and get this party started.

“Okay, ladies, raise your glasses,” I say as I stand and hold my glass high above my head. The two dozen or so women—Jane’s family, friends, classmates, and coworkers—dutifully follow in kind, some with less balance than others. I think Aunt Martha had a couple of starter drinks before arriving with her daughters tonight. That woman is as wild in her fifties as she probably was in her twenties. I totally want to be her when I grow up. “Here’s to our lady of the hour, Janey Wendall, social worker extraordinaire. We’re so proud of you for finally getting that paper turned in—”

“Master’s thesis,” Jane corrects me ruefully.

“Right,” I say, then continue like I still don’t get it because it drives her crazy, which duh, is why I do it. “For getting that short essay finally turned in…” She rolls her eyes as everyone laughs. Once I’ve gotten in the obligatory dig, I let the sappy best friend through for the rest of the speech. “You worked hard, stayed the course, and now you have an amazing job that you love and that allows you to truly help women in need. We couldn’t be more proud of you. Congratulations, Janey!”

A round of congratulatory shouts ring out, and then everyone scrambles to hug the graduate. I stand back, waiting for things to die down and the women to reclaim their seats on the various patio furniture and folding chairs set out in Chance and Jane’s backyard. It’s a gorgeous home, completely remodeled by Chance, who owns his own construction company.

As I stare up at the strings of lanterns that light up the patio and small yard, I wonder if someday I’ll have a house somewhere outside of the city. A place big enough to host parties for our friends, with a yard

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