“Where are they goin'?” I asked the girls.

They all shrugged. “No clue,” Branna said. “You doin' okay?”

I nodded my head. “Much better.”

Bronagh howled, “Park your arse and grab a glass, we're havin' a housewarmin' party even if it's just the four of us.”

“You mean five of us,” a voice from behind us said.

I jumped and turned around. “Alannah,” I breathed. “You frightened me.”

Alannah Ryan, Bronagh's best friend, and my friend, grinned. “Nico let me in as he and the brothers were goin' out.”

Bronagh whooped and poured Alannah a glass of wine.

I looked between the girls and shook my head.

This wasn't going to end well.

The girls were hiding from me.

I couldn't find the bitches anywhere.

I was resorting to looking in every room of my house to fucking find them. I was about to pass by mine and Alec's bedroom when I heard giggling. I opened the door and followed the giggling to the bathroom.

“What are you four doin' in here?” I asked as I entered the gigantic bathroom of my master bedroom.

Four heads quickly looked in my direction, three of the gazes were hazy and clouded with alcohol and one was clear and teasing. Alannah raised her hands in front of her chest and chuckled. “Don't look at me, this was their idea.”

Uh-oh.

Branna, Aideen, and Bronagh having ideas when sober usually ended in disaster, drunken ideas would surely be worse.

“What was their idea?” I asked and placed my hands on my hips.

I stared the three eejits down hoping to be somewhat intimidating, but when they burst into a fit of giggles I knew my threatening glare was little more than a slap on the wrist to them.

I switched my gaze to Alannah and softened it. “What did they do?”

“Somethin' stupid,” Alannah chuckled and shook her head.

Bronagh shoved her. “You took one too, so shut it.”

Alannah balked at her. “You forced me. You literally pulled my trousers and knickers down!”

That statement sent the three musketeers into another fit of laughter.

“Have you ever heard of waxin'?” Aideen asked, then fell into the bathtub as she burst into uncontrollable laughter. Bronagh and Branna were wheezing from laughing so hard.

I wanted to laugh simply because they were laughing, but I had to keep my no-bullshit expression on my face to get to the bottom of what the hell they did.

Alannah angrily folded her arms across her chest and glared at Aideen. “It's winter time, who gets a wax during this season? Give me a break!”

I looked between all the faces before me and felt the beginnings of a headache form in the base of my skull.

“What the hell went on in here?” I asked. “You forced Alannah to get semi naked with you all, to what? Jump her bones?”

Bronagh put her hand in the air like she was a student in primary school, and I was the teacher waiting to give her permission to speak.

I couldn't help but grin as I said, “Yeah, Bee, what is it?”

“Can you tell Dominic what you think happened? He will be so hot for me, thinkin' that I was strippin' Lana that he will overlook me drinkin' this early.”

I snorted. “Don't use me to soften up your lad, they all told you wait until they got back before crackin' open the wine. You three can deal with those impendin' arguments on your own.”

Aideen put her up hand next and that move did make me laugh because she was in fact the educator out of the five of us.

“What is it, Ado?” I asked.

“I'm not in a relationship with any of the brothers so they can't say shite to me,” she said proudly from her spot in the bathtub.

Branna rolled her eyes. “Please, you and Kane argue most out of the lot of us. You two are practically in a relationship, but don't kiss, have sex, or do anythin' intimate... you're in an enemyship.”

Aideen seethed in silence while we all chuckled at Branna's very correct observation.

Alannah grunted to me, “Can you get back to you givin' out to them for forcing me to—”

“We didn't force you, you wanted to do it for fun too. I could see it in your freckled face!” Bronagh cut Alannah off and laughed with her sister.

I raised my hands to my temples and rubbed. “What the hell did the four of you do?”

Things were eerily silent for a moment until Aideen cracked it with a giggle. “We took pregnancy tests.”

I blinked my eyes and stared at her.

“You took pregnancy tests?” I repeated.

“Yes,” Bronagh giggled. “Just for fun.”

I continued to blink and stare as I silently judged my group of friends.

They were such morons.

“Okay, so you took pregnancy tests... you better have thrown them in the bin and washed the counter down—if I find piss anywhere in here I'm stickin' your noses in it,” I warned.

Bronagh gasped. “Like a dog?”

“Exactly.” I grinned. “Just like a dog.”

Bronagh widened her eyes and it made Branna laugh. “Would you relax, we cleaned up and we'll wipe down the counter again when we're done with the tests.”

That piqued my interest.

“You mean you aren't already done with them?” I asked.

Branna shook her head. “We're waitin' for—”

Someone's phone let out a shrill sound cutting Branna off and causing her, and the other girls to grin.

“We were waitin' for that alarm,” she finished.

I rolled my eyes. “Well, go on then. Look and then throw them in the bin.”

All four of the girls remained still.

“Oh, shite. I can't do it,” Bronagh said as her complexion suddenly paled.

“I can't either,” the other three morons mumbled in unison.

I threw my hands up in the air. “Why did you take them if you're too afraid to see the results?”

Bronagh wiped her brow with the back of her hand. “Because it dawned on me that I could be pregnant. Me and Dominic have been tryin' for months.”

I stared at her. “So why can't you look?”

“Because it's terrifyin'!” she replied.

“Oh, for the love of God,” I grumbled and pushed them out of the way. “I'll bloody do it.”

I stumbled forward, but when Alannah didn't move aside right away it caused me to fall into the counter. I caught myself and wasn't hurt, but my forearm sent the pregnancy tests into the sink.

“Shite,” I said and quickly gathered them.

I wasn't worried about them being tampered, they all had the caps on the end where you urinate. I just had no clue which stick was whose because they were all the same brand of pregnancy test.

“Now we don't know which test is which!” Aideen groaned and got out of my bathtub.

Alannah snorted. “One will definitely be negative, I can't remember the last time I had sex.”

Bronagh grinned. “I do, it was six months ago and you said your one night stand was way better than... What's the insult you dubbed him with? Was it Snowflake?”

“Bronagh!” Alannah gasped. “We're not discussin' him!”

Him?

“Who is him? Who is Snowflake?” I asked.

Alannah glared at Bronagh. “Don't,” she warned.

Bronagh ignored Alannah and looked to me as she said, “Damien.”

I remained quiet for a second then said, “Damien Slater?”

Bronagh nodded her head then hissed when Alannah thumped her in the arm.

Branna and Aideen giggled as Bronagh grumbled and rubbed her arm.

“You had a thing with Damien?” I asked Alannah.

She groaned. “It was one night years ago, it is not a big deal. Seriously. We were kids.”

Bronagh gave Alannah a knowing look. “You're lyin' through your teeth and you know it.”

Alannah sighed, but remained silent.

I was shocked.

“You shagged Damien?” I asked.

Things were silent for a moment then everyone burst into laughter, including Alannah.