Twisted Devotion by Jessi Elliott

Author:Jessi Elliott [Elliott, Jessi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-990056-01-7
Publisher: Jessi Elliott

Aurora messages our group chat while Allison and I are on our way out of the café, inviting us for lunch and a visit, so we get into my car and head for Aurora and Tristan’s place.

It takes us a good hour to get to the white colonial-style house in the suburbs, and Adam is napping when we arrive. The three of us sit on the sectional in the living room around the giant fireplace and catch up on one another’s lives while sipping hot mugs of tea as if we’re a group of housewives dishing on the latest gossip. Granted, Aurora is the only married one out of the three of us.

Aurora is back to work at her bookstore, which is thriving more than ever with both online and in-store sales, and Allison is moving up the ranks of the marketing department of Westbrook Inc., which she’s thrilled about.

When it’s my turn to give the low-down, I sit there and chuckle a little. “It’s . . . interesting.” There’s that word again—interesting. It’s a cop-out of an answer, and I know it. I stare at the liquid in my mug, enjoying the warmth of the ceramic against my fingertips.

Aurora smirks. “Oh? Do share.”

I take a deep breath, and then let it all out. “Jackson is infuriating. He’s wickedly handsome, sure, but he can be so childish.”

Allison snorts. “You’re like the babysitter he secretly wants to bang.”

I stare at her. “Not even secretly,” I reveal. “He seems to think us ending up sleeping together is inevitable.”

“I mean, he is—” Aurora starts, and Allison cackles, cutting her off.

“Get this,” I tell them. “He challenged me not to sleep with him. Said if I made it through our contract, he’d double my pay.”

Aurora rolls her eyes. “Dick move. He wants to make it seem like you want him more than he wants you.”

“That’s bullshit,” I say.

She grins. “Oh, of course, but he’s a guy and he’s Jackson. He wants to believe he has the upper hand here.”

“He doesn’t,” I insist, and both ladies nod in agreement.

“He’s even worse than Nikolai,” Aurora adds.

“Yeah, no kidding.” I glance around at the baby blue walls and the family photos hanging on them. It’s crazy to think of how far Aurora and Tristan have come and everything they’ve been through together since they met. “When you and Tristan were on the outs, did you and Nikolai ever . . . you know?”

Aurora laughs. “Not a chance. Surprisingly enough, he respected me enough not to seriously push the topic.”

I arch a brow. “But he brought it up?”

She shrugs. “Yeah. It never meant anything, though, not really. Especially when he caught sight of Skylar. Those two were it for each other basically right from the start.”

I smile at the picture of them. They get at each other’s throats constantly, but each would rip out anyone’s throat who posed a threat to the other.

Allison glances down at her phone and grumbles under her breath.

“Al?” Aurora checks. “What’s up?”

“It’s Monica.” Allison taps away at her phone for a few seconds then drops it onto the couch cushion.

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