Chapter 290

It took a few minutes for me to properly get back into the party. Most of my girls came by to make sure I was OK, either with a small word or a touch and a look at least. Cattie was last, and she came to me and took my hands, drawing me to the side of the boat so we were standing and looking out at the dark of the water.

“I think I might have put a curse on you,” she said, though she had a rueful smirk on her lips.

“What do you mean by that?” I asked.

“I joked about you not wanting to see my Ex’s pussy, and there she goes and accidentally flashes you.”

I snorted and shook my head, wrapping my arm around her shoulder. “Well, it was the least pretty look at a woman that I’ve ever had,” I said. “Does that help?”

“Doesn’t change the fact that I called it,” Cattie said and then rolled her eyes. “Jesus, Robbie. How did I put up with her? It’s like everything she does is just awful. How did I have my head stuck so damn deep in the sand?”

“Shhh,” I hushed her softly. “Remember that all of this, the worst of all of it going on? She’s been spiralling. I don’t know if she’d consider this rock bottom or not yet, but she’s on her way. She wasn’t always like this, and at one point you saw good things in her. Not that I want to sing her praises or anything, but she must have some. She wasn’t this awful when you first introduced Cass and I to her at that Con. She had some sort of change, and you were growing apart and tried to protect a relationship that only one of you was actually working for. That’s it.”

She ran her hand up and down my back and sighed. “Can I be honest?” she asked.

“Always,” I said with a little frown.

She turned to look at me fully. “I think this is real, but I need you to tell me again,” she said. “Because I’m going to work for it harder than I ever worked to make it last with Heather, Robbie. I plan on this being a forever thing.”

I pivoted and wrapped her up in my arms, burying my face into her hair on the side of her head as I squeezed her tightly. “Me too,” I admitted. “Now that I have you, I never want to lose you, baby.”

“Thank you,” she whispered as she clung to me.

“OK, what’s going on?” Cassidy asked as she came over to us. “This doesn’t look like a party to me.”

Cattie and I separated and Cassidy’s teasing expression immediately changed as she saw the look on Cattie’s face. My fiancee quickly hugged her best friend. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing,” Cattie said, grinning at me over Cassidy’s shoulder. “Nothing at all. I just really love him.”

Cassidy broke into a relieved grin as well. “He loves you too,” she said. “So much.” Then she pulled back and pressed her forehead to Cattie’s as she looked deep into her eyes. “And I love you too, bestie.”

“I know,” Cattie smiled, and that smile turned into a smirk. “And I think we should show Robbie just how much we love him.”

I quickly got pulled into the dance area again and ended up with Cattie bouncing her ass against my crotch and Cassidy laughing as she danced up on me from behind. The dancing continued, and I had several repeat dances with the other girls I was involved with until I found my hand getting nabbed by Becca and pulled from the dancing group.

“What’s up, sugar?” I asked as she led me towards the back of the boat.

“A surprise,” she said simply with a grin.

Becca’s backless dress left a delicious display of her smooth skin for me to follow and she led me by the hand past Zenya, Heels and Leia sitting with their fit in the illuminated hot tub. Zenya put out a hand as I passed and I caught it and gave it a kiss on her palm, then winked at Leia and blew her an air kiss as well. Beyond them, I realised that JC was sitting in one of the deck chairs and Ginnie was straddling his lap and making out with him. That raised my eyebrows, but it was definitely within the rules of JC and Terra’s relationship and I had definitely danced with Terra a couple of times since the Heather confrontation.