Travis cursed, for a great while, and then finally set his eyes on her. All of her.
Following his lead, she cursed like a sailor. His eyes scanned her boldly without shame. They sat in silence, neither of them wanting to make the first move, or even to breathe, it seemed.
“What the hell!” A male voice roared.
Horrified, Kacey looked up into murderous green eyes and gulped. “ Hi, Jake.”
Chapter Twenty-five
“This isn’t what you think!” Kacey managed to grab a nearby towel and cover her nakedness, though it was hard to see the point of it all, conside
ring both men had both openly gaped at her. There had to be something ethically, or at least religiously, wrong with two brothers ogling one woman’s goodies in the bathroom.
“Oh?” Jake crossed his arms. “Because you don’t want to know what I think right now. How could you!” He shoved Travis against the wall.
“How could I?” Travis roared. “What the hell kind of question is that? When you’ve been running around this weekend screwing everything with a skirt?”
“One time!” Jake shouted.
“You’re supposed to be pretending to be engaged!”
“It doesn’t even matter anymore!” Jake pushed him against the wall again, his arm coming up beneath his chin. Obviously Travis was letting him, considering Jake was younger and clearly not as strong as Travis.
“Why the hell not?” Travis voice was strained.
“Grandma didn’t say! She just wanted Kacey back! Besides, she knows we aren’t engaged, alright? I did it for my reputation. Apparently dating strippers is bad for the company. It was the board’s idea anyway. It’s a win-win! I needed to save my reputation, so we pretended to be engaged. Do you think I want to be married?”
Kacey stood there stunned. She knew the marriage wasn’t real, but for some reason his words still stung, as if he was breaking up with her all over again. And what was worse was that she was watching the entire exchange almost naked.
“What was the point of bringing her down here if it wasn’t real anyway? And why was Grandma faking a stroke!” Travis shoved Jake, causing him to fall onto the floor with a thud.
“How should I know? I was being the dutiful grandson!” Jake pointed at himself and sneered.
“Um, guys?” Kacey raised her hand.
“Not now!” they yelled in unison.
“Guys.”
They ignored her and continued to fight over whether or not Grandma was sick, Jake was lying, and why it was so important to bribe Kacey to come down to Portland. All in all, it was the worst five minutes of her life.
And then…
Bets, Wescott, and Grandma burst into the room.
Lovely.
Kacey prayed for lightning to strike.
No such luck.
“What is the meaning of this?” Wescott roared then turned a bright purple when he glanced at Kacey in the towel.
“She was naked!” Jake pointed to Kacey.
Travis rolled his eyes. “In the shower, where people usually are naked.”
Jake sneered. “And you were staring at her because you find human anatomy fascinating?”