spilled onto the floor. “Damn,” she said.
“That’s okay. Beer won’t hurt these floors,” Justin said, getting up to go in the kitchen.
Luke picked up the bottle. “Why are you in such a hurry to get away from us?”
“Honestly. Dancing was fun, but talking with you is something else entirely. It’s not fun. What gives you the right to think you can delve into my personal life and that of my mother’s? And don’t say it’s because of your father. They’ve just been seeing each other. You’re taking it a lot more seriously than either of them are, especially my mother.”
“You don’t think they care for one another? Did you see the way they look at each other?”
Luke had a habit of standing way too close when he was talking to her. She was afraid she was going to lose her balance again. “It’s just sex, that’s all.” She immediately brought her hand to her mouth. She hadn’t meant to say that. It sounded so crass.
Luke was looking daggers at her. “If you think it’s just sex, you really are immature. And here I thought maybe you had grown up from the spoiled little daddy’s girl you once were.”
“How dare you talk to me like that. I was never spoiled.”
“Hey, you two,” Adam said, walking over to stand beside them. “Let’s calm it down.”
Justin returned with paper towels and started absorbing the spill at their feet. “Could you guys move it over a little?”
Luke grabbed her arm and pulled her away from the sofa. Adam followed. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a flash of light. She suddenly felt light-headed. She felt her body drifting toward Luke’s. She heard him say something before everything went dark.
When she opened her eyes, she was lying on a bed in a room that she couldn’t remember ever seeing before. As her eyes adjusted, she saw Luke, Adam, and Justin looking at her from the end of the bed.
“She’s awake,” Justin said, relief in his voice. “You scared us.”
“What happened?” she choked out. Her head was still woozy.
“You fainted. How do you feel?” Adam asked with concern.
She lifted herself on her elbows. “I’m a little weak, but otherwise, I’m fine,” she lied. She didn’t feel weak at all. What she felt was horny as hell. Waking up from a faint had never made her feel like that before. However, at this very minute, all she could think about was the warmth between her legs that was generating heat at a rapid rate.
“You should lie back and rest for a little while,” Luke said, coming over to sit next to her. “You’re lucky I was there to catch you.”
“Yes, lucky me,” she said, looking for her phone, thinking she needed to think about anything but the way she was feeling. “What time is it? My mother’s going to be worried.”
She saw Luke look over at Justin and Adam before his gaze returned to her. “I called her.”
“I wish you hadn’t done that.”
“I wish you hadn’t fainted,” Luke said, “but you did.”
“If you called her, why isn’t she here?” Jenny asked, looking from one man to the other.
“Luke told her you got drunk and passed out here at Justin’s,” Adam said, shaking his head. “Against, I might add, my better judgment.”
“I told her we’d take care of you and bring you home tomorrow.”
“Well, that isn’t what happened.” She looked pointedly at Luke.
“I didn’t want to worry her. And,” he said, “you have been drinking. For all I know you could have had too much to drink.”
“Have you seen a doctor lately?” Adam asked from where he sat at the bottom of the bed. “Fainting’s not normal. Your blood pressure seems a little low, too.”
“You took my blood pressure? That wasn’t necessary.”
“Has this happened before?” Luke asked, his eyes narrowing.
“I get what’s called ocular migraines that cause me to see flickering lights for maybe twenty minutes that I can’t get out of my line of vision. Sometimes, not often, but sometimes I
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