Close Quarters by Jerica MacMillan

Author:Jerica MacMillan [MacMillan, Jerica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

A wolf-whistle sounded from the direction of the kitchen when Megan walked out of her bedroom. Matt stood there in a snug fitting vest and cargo pants, a toy bow in one hand, and a quiver of arrows sticking out over his shoulder. “Looking good.”

“Get your own woman!” Chris pushed a laughing Matt out of his way with his Captain America shield to get out of the kitchen. Standing in the doorway, Chris’s eyes raked over Megan in her black skinny jeans, knee high boots, and fitted black leather jacket. She'd used some washout dye to turn her dark brown curls auburn to complete her Black Widow costume. It wasn't quite the right shade, but it was the closest she could get. Pulling the toy gun out of the holster on the cargo belt slung around her hips, she blew across the tip.

His eyes darkened, and he stalked across the room, pulling her tight against him. Megan chuckled when her hands encountered the fake foam muscles under the fabric of his costume. “I don't think you need the extra help with the physique.”

He grinned down at her. “Thanks for the compliment, but I couldn't find one without the muscles. You ready to go?”

At her nod, he pulled her in for a kiss before they all piled into Matt's car. They'd played rock, paper, scissors earlier to decide who would be the DD, and Matt had lost. They were on their way to the team's annual costume party that they held every October. This year they got to have it on Halloween, since it fell on the Saturday of the only weekend before Thanksgiving that they didn't have a game.

Megan had been looking forward to it since they'd all decided to go as characters from The Avengers. She'd never been part of a group costume. When the guys had suggested it, she'd been doubtful. She hadn't seen the movie before, which had made them groan in disbelief and determined to remedy the situation at the first opportunity. She'd enjoyed the movie more than she'd expected to, and started trying to figure out how to put together a costume for Black Widow almost as soon as the movie had ended.

Chris had sprung for a store-bought costume, saying that it would take too much time and too much work to put one together himself. She and Matt had managed to find most of the stuff they needed at thrift stores. She’d scored with the jacket. It was perfect—black leather that zipped up the front with an almost non-existent stand up collar. It had only cost twenty dollars, and she could wear it after Halloween too. The other bonus was that she wouldn't freeze in this costume on the cold, rainy night.

They arrived at the same house where the pool party had been at the beginning of the semester, the party already well underway. So much had changed since she'd been here last. The weather meant there wouldn’t be any swimming tonight and more of the house was open for the partiers.

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