TEASER TUESDAY

*~TEASER TUESDAY~*

A teaser from FAKE, book #9 in the Nicki Sosebee series.

This scene is a flashback!!!

“How would you feel about a friendly game of strip poker?”

Nicki had to swallow fast. What? It hit her then…Sean was looking at her through lustful eyes. Oh…she liked that. How could she pass up that opportunity? She glanced over at Jesse, still resting his head, and decided to go for it. The night could end up with her and Sean together at last. She felt the grin spread across her face. “I’m game.”

Sean smiled again, his eyes sparkling. “Have a seat and I’ll find the poker cards.”

Nicki reclaimed her seat and hoped she could remember how to play poker. She’d only ever played poker with Sean, so she was sure she’d lose. She really didn’t care. But then she saw Jesse first sit up and then stand, rubbing his face. He stumbled to the bathroom and Nicki was glad. Maybe he was going to leave, sensing where the evening was headed. She couldn’t blame him. He didn’t want to be a third wheel. And that’s when Nicki decided that, even though she’d like to sit close to Sean, she instead wanted to be across from him. If he stripped for her, she wanted to appreciate a full view. She knew he had a fantastic body and she wanted to see it, be able to enjoy and appreciate it. So she got up and sat on the floor between the television and the coffee table. When Sean returned from his desk in the dining room with a deck of cards, he asked, “Why’d you move?”

She grinned. “I want to watch you take off your clothes when I kick your ass.”

He started laughing. “Oh, really?”

Jesse came back in the living room as Sean pulled his t-shirt over his head. “That one’s for free.”

Jesse was still standing, rubbing his hair. “We doing this for reals?”

“Yeah, bro. You up for that?”

He shrugged. “Yeah. Why not?” He looked at Nicki. “You okay with it?”

She shrugged too but said nothing.

Jesse sat in his chair next to the couch. He opened the bottle of vodka, now half gone, and poured a shot. “Anyone want another before we begin?”

Nicki figured she needed to keep her buzz on. If Jesse was going to join them (and she found that she was strangely okay with that), she needed to maintain that swimming feeling. “Yeah.” She slammed it, and both guys did a shot too.

Nicki asked Sean to refresh her memory, wanting to remember what a flush and a straight were. “And what the hell is a royal flush again?” If she hadn’t wanted to win—to get both guys naked while she stayed clothed—she wouldn’t have cared.

Sean patted the couch next to him. “Come back up here.” She gave him a coy look. “I promise I’ll make it worth your while.” How could she resist? She grinned and joined him.

They drank a lot. Nicki herself knew she’d had too much. She was in blackout territory, but she was having fun and she seemed to be doing okay. After several rounds, Sean was down to boxers, Jesse to jeans, and Nicki in her bra and panties. The next round would be tense. Jesse was the only one who could afford to lose anything.

Jesse slammed another shot. “F**k. Hey, can we switch to blackjack? I can’t do poker anymore. I can’t concentrate anymore and I can’t bluff for shit.”

Sean looked at Nicki. “That okay with you?”

“Yeah.” Inside, she was secretly relieved. She was having a hard time focusing too and calculating her hand. How she’d managed to keep any clothes on had to be due to sheer luck.

The first round of blackjack, Nicki got lucky. She had a queen and an ace. Didn’t get much better than that. Both men held, and when they revealed, Sean had eighteen, Jesse nineteen. He threw his cards on the coffee table. He smiled, his eyes squinty from the booze. “I think I remember somebody wanting me to make a big f**king deal about revealing my schlong.”

Nicki started giggling and covered her mouth. Sean got up and stood in front of the television, his back to them. He slid the black boxer briefs down his legs. Oh, what a beautiful ass. Nicki could feel herself getting wet just looking at him, the man of her dreams. And she thought if she played her cards right, she could be playing a different game with him later…