The Renovation (Contemporary Reverse Harem 2)

She swatted my arm, but I turned the car around before she could change her mind. I didn’t care if I never tried swing dancing again in my life. “You’re tired. Forget the dancing.”

“All right. Hey, how are you feeling about living with a bunch of guys?” I asked her.

“Well, it’s kind of weird. We’ll see how it goes. I mean, I just don’t know about choosing.”

I felt for her. I really did. Of course, I hoped she’d choose me. But if she didn’t, hell, we’d still be friends and coworkers. I had no doubt about that. A different guy might freak about being in such a predicament, but I was pretty Zen about it. Work was so insane, I didn’t have time for any other drama. Whatever happened with Jayma would happen, and I’d always be grateful for the time I had with her. I guess I just wanted her to be happy.

Chapter 21

JAYMA

Geez, I felt like crap for dragging Tanner across town to something he didn’t want to do. What had I been thinking?

Only of myself, apparently.

He did work his freaking ass off. I saw it every day at work. Constant phone calls from clients, meetings both in and out of the office. And his boss was so bitchy.

It would be way more fun for him to just go home and chill—let him get settled into the new place.

Speaking of the new place, how awesome was it that the guys were so cool together? No dick behavior, no puffing their chests out to see who was more of a man. No, just three guys having a sip of some good scotch.

And Wyatt would be joining us shortly.

We got back to the house and headed up to Tanner’s room. On the way, we passed the study, where Carter and Dig were arguing over some sports thing. Something about a player and a coach and who was in the right. It was like a foreign language to me.

“Hey guys, no dancing?” Dig called.

“Nah. We decided to bag it,” Tanner answered. “We’re headed upstairs.”

“Okay, you crazy kids. Have a good night.” They returned to their arguing. All I could hear were a lot of “dude” and “douchebag” references. They were in their element.

“I still can’t believe this place,” Tanner said as we climbed to the second floor. “Carter has done such a good job with it.”

It was a really cool house, modern and open, but warm and inviting at the same time. Would the team be able to do something similar to my house next door?

And would they be able to do it fast? Like, really fast? When I thought about it, my future was in their hands. All of their hands.

And their futures were in mine.

“I have an idea,” I said to Tanner.

“What’s that?”

“Let’s take a hot bubble bath together. That’ll be super relaxing.”

“All right. I never take baths. Let’s give it a shot.”

We went to crank the hot water over the tub. I ran and grabbed a tiny bottle of bubble bath from my overnight bag and poured the entire thing in the water. The bubbles began to grow like crazy.

“C’mon baby, let’s get our clothes off,” he said, removing his steamed-up glasses. He reached for the hem of my dress.

Before I knew it, I was standing there in my bra, pink lace panties, and high heels.

“You are fucking gorgeous.” His gaze was like velvet, running up and down my body.

“Turn around for me, will you?” he said as he began to remove his own clothes.

I turned my back to him but peeked over my shoulder to catch him eyeing my ass. I backed up so I could rub against him, seeing as he was down to his boxers.