“KEELA!”
Uh-oh.
I swallowed and looked to a grinning Aideen.
“I'm in trouble.”
“Yes, baby?” I sweetly called out as I stepped inside my domain.
I looked to my right as Alec stormed down the hallway holding onto his ears. I looked past him and saw Nico pinning Bronagh down on my bed with one arm while he used the other to tickle her.
Poor lass, she was taking one for the team.
“Don't you 'Yes baby' me!” Alec snarled as he came to a stop in front of me. “You cheated me out of—”
“I didn't cheat you out of anythin', you abandoned your post so the bathroom items were fair game,” I cut Alec off and strolled by him as I walked into the kitchen.
Ryder and Branna were in there. She was on all fours cleaning out my lower presses, and Ryder was standing behind her just watching. From the look of things he wanted to do anything but pack right at that moment. I forgot about Ryder and Branna when my love grabbed my arm and spun me to face him. I held onto Alec's arms so I wouldn't fall because I got a tiny bit dizzy from his sudden move.
Alec glared down at me. “You set Bronagh on me so you could smuggle my boxes out of the apartment!”
Smuggle. Ha!
“Oh, get over it you big baby,” I said and chuckled.
Alec continued to glare at me as he said, “Fine.”
I snorted, “Fine.”
“Fine.”
Alec turned and stormed out of the kitchen while I watched him go with a smile on my face.
He was too easy to wind up.
“Trouble in paradise?”
I turned to face Ryder who spoke to me.
I shook my head. “Nope.”
Ryder snorted as he glanced back at Branna, who was still on her hands and knees, and sighed. “I'm going to pack in the living room instead,” he mumbled
He walked into the sitting room, but couldn't escape Branna because she was hot on his heels and it made me snicker. The lads truly didn't stand a chance.
I got to work on clearing out the kitchen. Thirty minutes passed by before I knew it and I had all the contents of the kitchen presses packed into four large boxes. Two of the boxes consisted of our large pots and pans, and the other two were filled with all the smaller items like cups, bowls, plates and the mountain of cutlery we had.
“Aideen?” I shouted.
Aideen entered the kitchen from the hallway and glanced at my boxes. “Nice.”
I grinned and got to work at taping them closed and writing my name on the boxes then the contents because I forgot to do it while they were flattened. We called Branna and Bronagh in and we each carried a box down to the moving van. We loaded the boxes on my side, which brought the total to six.
When we were out of the van and standing on the path I turned to the girls.
“Status report?”
Bronagh grinned. “We've got the kitchen and the bathroom done. I'm nearly finished with the bedroom and Branna is gettin' there with the sittin' room.”
I looked to Alec's empty side of the van and looked back to the girls. “Well... the plan is workin', they haven't got a single box packed yet.”
We all high-fived one another and laughed as we re-entered the building and headed back up to my apartment. We cut the laughter and stayed silent as we entered my building. I froze slightly when I entered the kitchen and found all the lads sitting down and glaring at us.
Every single one of us.
Shite.
“What's with you lot?” I asked.
Alec growled at me, “Like you don't know.”
Oh, bollocks.
“I've no clue,” I said, feigning innocence.
Nico scoffed. “Cut the crap, we're onto you four.”
Us girls shared a look then in unison we said, “What did we do?”
“That was creepy,” Ryder mumbled.
Kane ignored his brother and said, “You're seducing us.”
We all scratched our necks.
“That is ridiculous,” I said, waving Kane off.
“No,” Nico snarled, “It's not. I know you Bronagh. You're constantly touching me, bending over in front of me and drawing as much attention to your ass and body as possible. You know damn well what you're doing to me.”
Bronagh remained silent, as did the rest of us.
“You seduced me in the bathroom, Keela,” Alec hissed at me. “Then you stole my boxes right out from under me.”
I wanted to laugh so I bowed my head and cast my eyes to the floor to avoid doing so. I glanced at Kane when he crossed his arms across his chest and stared at Aideen.
“You grazed your ass against me five times. Five. Times. You evil bitch.”
I lifted my hand to my mouth and covered it when a snicker escaped.
“You think this is funny!” Ryder bellowed. “My cock was so hard for you Branna and you were all 'Stop it, we have to pack boxes.'“
I erupted into laughter at Ryder's impression of Branna, and so did the other girls.
“You four are unreal!” Nico shouted over our laughter.
I couldn't stop laughing, not even when Alec shot over to me and got into my personal space.
“This game you're playing stops now,” he growled down at me.
I looked up at him, and smiled. “What game?”
“Don't pretend you don't know what we're talking about, we figured out what you four are doing.”
I tilted my head to the side. “Which is what?”
We were going to quarrel over this—I could feel it.
“You're using your bodies to distract us so you four can pack and we can't,” Alec stated.
My lip quirked. “No, we're not.”
“Liar,” Alec hissed.
The four lads then moved to the multiple boxes that were stacked over at the door. I frowned, and leaned over to look at them. I counted eight, and Alec's name was on them all.
“When did you do this?” I asked.
Alec smirked. “You four took ten minutes bringing your boxes downstairs. When we realised what you were doing to us and why, we knuckled down and speed-packed. It worked as you can tell.”
Each lad grabbed two boxes and headed out of the apartment, not looking at us as they walked. I spun to face the girls.