Chapter 8
Chloe unlocked her front door trying not to jingle the keys so loud. Her head was pounding from the New Year's celebration the night before. All she wanted was a nice soft bed and some pain relievers. Juliet winced beside her as she slowly opened the door.
"I am going to grease those hinges up tomorrow." Chloe whispered.
"Where the heck have you two been?" A voice boomed making both girls drop their bags and take a hold of their heads.
Chloe faced Adriana and a sea of other faces. "Not so loud."
"Do you know how worried I was?" Her sister continued.
Logan stared at her from the wall at the very end of the room. She could tell he was just as worried as her sister.
"If you stop yelling for a second I might be able to get the throbbing to hold off long enough to think back." Chloe watched as Juliet moved past her to the couch and grabbed a pillow to hide her face.
Adriana quirked her eyebrow at Chloe and looked at Juliet. "Why are you talking like that?"
Caitlyn smiled, "They probably drank so much the bar was dry by the end of the night."
"You would think with my tab being so high." Chloe held her head.
"We called your phone but some guy answered and got into a huge fight with Logan."
Chloe gave her sister a strange look and then looked in her purse. "What guy? He didn't bother to tell you where my phone was did he?"
"You lost your phone?" Caitlyn gave a huge grin. "Epic! What about you Juliet?"
When Juliet didn't offer anything but a gentle snore Chloe spoke for her. "I don't know where she ran off to last night. I woke up on the bathroom floor." Chloe sat at the end of the couch rubbing her head.
"So you didn't end up in some guys' hotel room?"
"What are you talking about? The only guy I remember was the guy giving me a back massage at the spa. In which he came back heated and pissed because of a phone call or some such."
Adriana left the room towards the kitchen. Logan was the one to speak first, "Sorry about that. I got a little carried away."
Chloe looked back up and quirked a brow. "You got in a fight with my masseuse?"
Logan shrugged and waved a hand, "The way the guy was talking he was making me think that something else was going on all together."
"Why should you care? You haven't spoken to her for almost two months." Adriana narrowed her eyes as she handed Chloe a glass of water and pain meds.
"Look the most I did last night was puke my brains out and thanking my lucky stars I didn't have alcohol poisoning."
Juliet sat up and grabbed her purse and pulled out a camera. She started flipping through them as Chloe watched from beside her.
"Um hunny, usually they say "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" but that is unless someone brings back proof." Caitlyn slipped in between the girls. "Woah! Chloe… I didn't know you could bend that way." All three heads turned in unison.
"Me either." Logan and Hank gave each other glances but stayed silent.
Adriana broke the silence, "What do you mean bend?"
"Apparently Chloe can pole dance." Caitlyn was giggling at the photos. "And that dress was gorgeous!"
"I think that is what paid for my bar tab."
Adriana slipped in beside Chloe to look at the photos. "Who is that guy who is in like every photo?"
"I don't know," Juliet offered. "But I woke up with him this morning."
All eyes were on her. "Oh what, you expect this out of Chloe but not me?"
"Yeah what is up with that?" Chloe threw up her hands.
"You did the walk of shame?"
"Again, why would you accuse me of the walk of shame?" Chloe fumed.
"Because frankly sweetheart you need the walk of shame." Caitlyn patted Chloe's knee. Logan groaned in retort leaving Caitlyn to prod on. "We all know you need a good piece of…"
Before she could finish the sentence he stopped her. "No she doesn't."
Caitlyn smirked and gave him a challenging look. "Well what do you think she needs?"
He didn't bother to retort to her and just glared in response.
Chloe didn't even notice the argument and just offered, "It is alright Caitlyn. I don't need a piece of anything and Logan was just looking out for me."
Caitlyn lifted a hand in defeat. "Oh alright, then at least let me take you to the sex store so you don't need a man…" Stopping to hear the man across the way groan she chuckled under her breath.
All four women stopped what they were doing when Juliet's cell phone buzzed in her bag. Juliet took a quick glance at the number and shrugged. "Apparently I missed a call but I don't recognize the number."
"Did they leave a message?" Adriana turned her head to view the photos. "Hey look Tony Stark, did any of you get a kiss from the man…never mind you did."
Logan mumbled under his breath about diseases and Chloe moaned. "He kissed me on the cheek!"
Feeling the headache subside Chloe stopped when she heard the voicemail on speaker.
"Um hi, my name is Devon and I think you are my wife."
