Chapter 7: Bringing In Reserve Players...

Paul was one of my boys from school— the ones who hooked me up with porn, bagged me booze, made me belly laugh, but still said I was hot when I did. They were like a pack of animals, but they were my animals, and they were lovely really.

Paul was the most enamored with me, so it was him I selected to help me with my plan of action, unbeknownst to him. It was time to bring in a substitute….

I'd said I'd sit in with Masen while Tanya and Edward met with old friends. It was a double date with another, more traditional couple, so it wasn't as if they could bring the babysitter they were boffing along.

I told Paul to arrive once I knew they'd have made tracks.

He did so, with beers and a joint in tow, so once we'd sent Masen to bed, we got our buzz on. What I wanted was for Edward to come home and see me chilling with Paul, maybe get his heckles up a bit, bring out the green-eyed monster in the green eyed Adonis, accelerate things a touch. I had taken to trying to make Edward jealous— the oldest trick in the book. It was great to spend time with someone my age again for a while too though.

We got the munchies, so I was getting us a Midnight snack when Paul sidled up behind me at the kitchen bench, taking hold of my butt through my tightest pair of jeans. What was it about this kitchen that gavepeople the horn?

"Paul! What the hell?"

He didn't hurry away. He hung on when I try to wriggle out of his grasp, trapped between the hard wood of the cabinets and his hard wood.

"I like this ass..." he admitted

"You like liquor— you're drunk" This was no laughing matter anymore. He was slobbering on my neck. I adored it when Edward did that, but this was barfarrific.

"Oh, come on, you little cock tease, you know you flirt with us all, lead us on. I bet you'd let us all bang you like a filthy little slut.

Smack! I succeeded in swiveling enough to slap him across his smug face.

He growled at me, and I was scared of what he might do next.

I'd never know, because just then, Edward barreled across the room, reaching for Paul. My Knight in shining Prada...

"I should fuck you up right now!" Edward yanked Paul by the tank top.

"Edward, don't!" I pleaded.

"Edward, the police..." Tanya was present now too.

"You are so lucky I'm gonna listen to those ladies, and that my son is asleep upstairs, or you'd be in an ambulance right now! If I ever bear witness to behavior like that from you again, or if you ever talk to her that way again, I'll put you in a body bag! Now, get out of my house!"

Paul was in much more of a hurry now.

Masen padded down the stairs shortly after Paul disappeared. The shouting must have woken him.

"Dad, what's happening?" he huffed.

"Nothing, Son, I was having a Hulk moment, but I've calmed down now. Everything's dandy, you get back to bed... Bella was just going home, weren't you, Bella?" His eyes bore into mine when he said that, and I read the emotion in them.

Not only had I probably lost a friend or two, but I'd have to deal with the fall-out of that. Tanya was floating on cloud nine at my mistake, and the man I loved was struggling to hide his hurt. Wow, what I wouldn't give for a takeback; that was one move I wish I could undo...


Well, I guess the wolf's outta the house! Would you have let the pup play a while first? Lol Did Edward overreact? Does the "Make 'em Jealous" trick ever work? Do an opinion from your brain! x