Nestled in a corner booth, Kel spotted the three men who’d made a bet on her and her sisters. The waitress who greeted them was an old friend of hers. “Peggy, my sisters and I are going to do a bit of eavesdropping on those men in that booth over there. Do you mind leaving us to that?”

With a wink, Peggy nodded. “Sure thing, Kel. You just wave at me if you need anything.”

Kel, Cait, and Jess slipped around the edge of the dining room, staying out of the men’s sights. They took the booth just behind them and settled in to listen to what the scoundrels were up to.

Ethan was boasting about something, and when Kel heard the name, Julia Loveless, she froze as he said, “That Julia Loveless could really show a man a good time.”

“Tell me, Ethan,” Phoenix said. “Did you ever get her special kiss?”

When all three men laughed, all three sister’s faces went red with anger. Kel and her sisters exchanged looks as they gritted their teeth to keep quiet.

Griffin added, “I never had anyone give me a rim job before. And I haven’t since her, either.”

Jess mouthed, ‘Gross!’

Phoenix chuckled. “Can you imagine asking one of our girls for something like that?”

When they all laughed a hearty laugh, the girls were livid. Kel made the sign of slitting her throat as a reference as to what she was going to do to Ethan.

Ethan said, “Kel is much too classy to do something like that. No, I think I would never even ask her to do such a thing. She’s a good girl. A very good girl.”

“Jess is too,” Griffin said. “How about Cait?”

“Oh, she’s good too,” Phoenix said. “But to tell the truth, I think if it weren’t for her sisters being involved, she’d have given in to me.”

Cait smiled and nodded, prompting Kel to punch her in the arm and mouth, ‘Tramp!’

Cait shrugged as Phoenix went on, “Want to know the truth?”

“Sure,” Ethan said.

“Julia was sexy, hot, damn great in the sack, but I think Cait will make me forget I ever knew Julia and her erotic ways,” Phoenix said, making Cait’s heart speed up.

“You think so?” Griffin asked. “I mean, Julia knew her way around a man’s cock, that’s for sure. Jess is young. Inexperienced. I’m not sure she’d make me forget all that Julia could do.”

“You could teach her, Griff,” Ethan joked. “Not that we’ll be around long enough for you to teach her too much.”

“Yeah, we have to get this bet over with,” Griff said, making Jess frown.

“You need to get back to work, Griff?” Phoenix asked.

When all three of the men laughed again, the women were puzzled. But they knew then that they were only going to be notches on the guy’s bedposts and nothing more than that. They’d all been lied to.

“I’m not going to lie,” Ethan said. “I’ll miss Kel. But I’ll have at least one night of pure pleasure to remember her by.”

‘The hell he will!’ Kel mouthed to her sisters who nodded in agreement.

“I’ll miss Jess too,” Griffin said.

Phoenix echoed him, “Yeah, I’m gonna miss, Cait.”

The women sat and waited for the guys to say anything else, but all that came was silence followed by the sound of heavy mugs being sat down.

“We could keep in touch with them, I suppose,” Griff said.

“The explaining would be too hard,” Ethan said. “Can you imagine if one of us accidently told our girl about the bet and they told the others? Well, it’d end up with the others being dumped. Left with broken hearts and none of us need that mess in our lives.”

“I think Ethan’s right,” Phoenix agreed. “Cait would put my balls in a vice, I can almost feel it now.”

The men laughed again then Ethan said, “Those ladies are marrying material.”

“I know,” Griffin agreed.

“I’m sure they’re already talking amongst themselves about how to get us all into holy matrimony with them,” Phoenix said.

“I wonder if Kel is coaching them on it,” Ethan said. “It’s not beyond her to do such a thing. You know, telling them to hold out until they get a ring on it.”

“Oh, hell!” Phoenix gasped. “What if that’s true? What if they plan on holding out until that happens? Do women really wait until the wedding night?”

“Some do,” Griffin said. “But I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. I mean, our girls don’t seem to be that religious or that manipulating.”

“How much longer are we going to give them?” Phoenix asked.

“We have nothing but time,” Ethan reminded him. “But we should put a limit on it, shouldn’t we?”

“Hey, what if we made them jealous with other chicks?” Griff asked.

Jess smacked her fist in her hand as she thought about Griff’s hands on another woman. Cait looked at her and put her finger to her lips.

“That might work,” Phoenix agreed.

“Or it might backfire, and they might shut us out for good,” Ethan said. “I do believe if Kel saw me with another woman she’d cut me out without a second thought.”

More silence followed by the sound of glasses being sat back down, let the girls know the men were stumped by what to do to win their bet and get the girls into their beds.

So Kel decided it was time to make themselves known but not entirely. She leaned up and whispered, “Just go along with me, sisters, I think I have an idea.”

With their nods of agreement, Kel got up, and the others followed her. She went to the waitress and got her to seat them at the same table but this time she wanted the men to notice them. But they’d act like they didn’t see them.

It was time to make a little deal of their own.