“Yeah, we miss you, too. We’ll come in next week. How’s Penny?” Brooke asked, speaking of Audrey and Tate’s daughter. Phillip hugged Brooke close to him as Audrey went on and on about how great Penny was.

“Oh, I’m rambling, sorry,” Audrey gushed, her cheeks turning red as Tate hugged her into the nook of his arm.

“How do you two know each other?’ Phillip asked.

“She and Amy come into the cupcakery all the time. I didn’t know y’all knew each other,” Audrey said.

Phillip looked at Brooke, and she smiled. “Yeah, he’s a cutie. Couldn’t pass him up.”

Phillip grinned as Piper said, “Hi, I’m Piper. This is my husband, Erik.”

“Nice to meet you,” Brooke said, but then an awkward silence fell over the table. He could feel Reese’s eyes on him, but he’d be damned if he would look at her.

“Well, I guess since he won’t introduce me, I’m Reese,” Reese said, reaching out to take Brooke’s hand.

“Why would I? It’s not like you introduced me to the guy you’re with,” he said, turning to look at her. Her hands came onto her hips, and she glared.

“Because you ran off before I could.”

“It’s okay; I really don’t give a f**k.”

“Obviously you do, since you brought it up. Where did you find her?”

“I could ask you the same thing, sweetheart, watch it.”

“Whatever, you’re just trying to start something,” she spat at him. For some reason, that pissed him the f**k off. Why the hell did she care? She broke it off with him and f**k, this was childish!

“What’s there to start? What I do is my business. Don’t worry your pretty little head about it.”

“Whoa, hold the phone, is something going on between y’all?” Audrey asked, leaning across the table, her eyes cutting to Reese and then Phillip.

“No way.”

“Fuck no; I don’t mess with girls like her.”

Reese whipped her head up to look at him and glared. “Yeah, I like to mess with dudes that aren’t small,” she said, holding her forefinger and thumb out a little. “If you know what I mean.”

Whoa, did she just say his dick was small?

Erik choked on his drink and Tate coughed, trying to keep his laughter in. Piper looked away, her face red as Brooke took in a sharp breath.

Phillip scoffed. “Please. I’m hung like a horse.”

“A horsefly, you mean?”

She did not go there. With her eyes on him, she wore a condescending smile, while penis head just laughed. All right, she wanted to play dirty, that was fine. Phillip had no problem getting dirty.

“Why don’t you go on and take your friend to the bathroom and do what you do, since you know, you’re not a one-man kind of girl.”

Piper’s mouth dropped as everyone looked away, and Dean cut him with his eyes. He looked at Dean straight on, begging him to say something. The dude would hit the ground so fast if he did. When he looked back down at Reese, her eyes were in slits, glaring, and he swore she was going to hit him. But then, he saw a little hurt behind her anger and that made his own anger flatten a bit. He might have gone too far there, but she said he had a small dick.

There wasn’t a small part on his body.

Reese’s eyes never left his. He swore he saw jealously but before he could call her on it, she looked up at Dean and said, “Let’s go dance.”

“Want me to kick his ass first?”

Phillip couldn’t help but laugh. “Try it, ass**le.”

She placed her hand on his chest. “No.” She then looked back at Phillip. “I want to dance with someone that actually knows how to work it and keep me interested, not someone that will bore me.”

Before Phillip could say anything, not that he knew what he would say, she walked away with Dean, her ass moving side to side in a way that made him want to fall to his knees and praise it despite how pissed off he was.

“What the hell, Phillip? You’re not gonna get her by calling her a slut!” Piper yelled as he slowly shook his head.

“I know! But, Piper, she called my dick small!”

“She’s so hateful; you could do so much better,” Audrey said, but then quickly added, “No offense, Piper.”

“She is not. She’s just rough around the edges. You just have to get to know her. She’s such a good person. Tell them, Erik.”

“Yeah, what she said,” Erik said, causing Tate and Audrey to laugh, but Phillip couldn’t laugh because Piper was right. Reese was amazing; she was just a little hard to deal with. He knew the real Reese though.

Watching as she moved with penis head on the dance floor, he said, “She’s the girl for me.”

And he completely believed that he only had to break through the walls she had built up around her. She was fickle and yeah, hateful, but she had her reasons and he still wanted her. He was probably a glutton for punishment, but he could see it in her eyes.

She wanted him, and he was going to get her.

“Come on, Brooke.”

“What? Where we going?” she asked, stopping him from moving.

He looked back at her and smiled, his confidence in no way dented. He knew he was driving Reese crazy, and he wasn’t ready to stop. She could say what she wanted, but he knew it was just her putting extra stones in her walls. He planned to the knock them the f**k down.