Down To Business (Business Series) - Plot & Excerpts
My mother called out from behind the door.A second bolt of painful adrenaline shot through my veins. “Fuck!” I breathed. “Autumn! Are you in there?” “One sec, Mom!” I yelled, flinging myself off the side of the pool table. “Don’t open the door! I’ll let you in!” Vinny followed my lead, scrambling to collect our scattered clothing. We bumped heads when we both leaned in for our shirts at the same time. Laughing through the pain, I managed to get fully dressed and just as I shoved my arms through the sleeves of my hoodie, my mother unlocked the door herself.We froze in place as she pushed the door open and stared at us like we were idiots. “Why didn’t you open the door?!”“I was going to...”“When? Next week? What took you so long? It’s the middle of the night, Autumn. I could have been mugged waiting on you.”Mugged? Didn’t she remember we lived in one of the most boring towns on the east coast? “I’m sorry. We were just…finishing up a game of pool…”
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