“No,” Jeff barked back.
“Can we at least look in her direction?” Josh asked with a chuckle.
Jeff sighed. “Yes.”
Glancing at my watch, I asked, “How do you know she’s coming home and not spending the night at a friend’s house?”
Jeff nearly came out of his seat with the idea. “Fuck!”
He pulled out his phone and shot off a text message to whom I would assume was his sister.
Cursing under his breath, he started the truck and did a U-turn.
“Where are we going?” Josh asked.
“Ari’s house. Ellie just said they are all there . . . hanging out.”
“Are the girl’s parents home?” I questioned.
“They better sure as fuck be.”
I glanced over my shoulder and saw Brad raise his brows.
“Dude, why are you so worried? You need to trust your sister that she’ll do the right thing,” Josh stated from the back seat.
“I do trust her. I don’t trust this little fucker. I have a bad vibe about him.”
It wasn’t long before we were driving down a long driveway and pulling up to what looked like a pretty nice house. It was dark, and hardly any lights were on outside.
Not a good sign the folks are home.
The front door immediately opened, and four girls trickled out. I tried like hell to get a better look at them all.
“Stay here,” Jeff ordered us.
Once the door shut, Josh let out a laugh. “Is it just me, or does Jeff seem like he’s lost his damn mind?”
“Not just you,” Brad stated.
I watched as one of the girls moved closer to Jeff. Her brown hair was piled on top of her head, and her back was toward us.
“I can’t get a good look at her, damn it,” I whispered.
“Me either,” Brad stated.
Josh practically crawled into the front seat. “Do you think that’s the sister?”
“Maybe.”
Another girl walked up and got between Jeff and the girl who might be Ellie. It looked like she had brown hair as well. She looked pretty from what I could tell.
“Shoot me right now. That girl has a fucking hot body,” Josh said.
“You better hope that is a friend of the sister’s and not Ellie herself,” I said with a laugh. “But you’re right. She does have a nice body. So does the one with her back to us.”
I knew that was Ellie. I couldn’t explain how I knew; I simply did. My chest was pounding with the idea of her walking up to the truck and Jeff finally introducing her to us.
“Yeah, so does the blonde,” Brad added. “Can’t really see the other one; Jeff’s blocking her.”