Breaking All the Rules novel Chapter 34

"You just want a reason to be naked." I tease him.

"That and I'd get to see you naked which is a plus."

"Not happening." I tell him.

He looks at Ian. "Well I tried. Seriously though, we are playing poker and we'd all love if you came over. We miss having you around, just because you're not hooking up with McAllister anymore doesn't mean you have to stop being friends with us. If it will help you can start hooking up with me."

"You know, as tempting as that is I'm going to pass on hooking up with you but thanks anyway."

He shrugs. "Your loss."

"It would be pretty cool if you did play poker with us." Ian tells me. "I promise Nick will even keep his clothes on."

I laugh. "Well in that case, I'd love to."

Ian looks surprised by this. "You would?"

"Yeah, poker sounds like fun. I might even be able to talk some of the girls into coming too." After days without talking to Ian it would be nice to hang out with him. I hate how much I've missed him. Now I'm more sure than ever I'd rather have him in my life as a friend than not at all. I can make this work, I can be just friends with Ian.

"Even Jess?" Nick asks.

"Probably not Jess, she hates cards but if Kevin is going I know Anna will." Those two are connected at the hip, they're always together. "I'm sure Christie will come too because hot

baseball players will be there."

"Hot baseball players huh?" Ian asks with a grin, exposing those dimples I love so much.

"Yeah, that's all the motivation the girls will need to hear. No one can turn that down."

I was right as soon as I mentioned the poker game was against the boys Christie, Emma, and Lexie all jumped at the chance. Anna was of course was already going to be there because Kevin is going, so it was five of us girls and Ian, Nick, Tim, Aaron, and Kevin playing. They had

a big, white fold out table set up in the living room with foldable chairs. We ordered pizza and started playing. "So are we playing for clothes?" Nick asks.

"No!" Anna says before anyone else can answer.

"No one is seeing my girlfriend naked but me." Kevin says.

"You guys suck." Nick whines.

Ian was sitting next to me and Anna was on the other side of me. It was distracting having Ian sitting so close to me, I tried to play it off like I wasn't bothered by it but I could feel his every move next to me and it was torture. Images of us in bed played in my head and it took everything I had to concentrate on my cards. His elbow rubbed against my forearm causing me to jump. He murmured a "sorry".

"Are you trying to look at my cards?" I ask holding them against my chest.

Ian grins. "Maybe, do you want to show them to me?"

He has a way of saying everything like there's a double inuendo. I actually blush at him asking if I'll show him my cards. "Never." I tell him before looking at my cards.

"Keep it on. Keep it on." Ian says laughing.

Nick lifts his shirt a little to give Lexie a view of his perfectly defined abs. "Woo, Baby." Lexie reaches for his abs and he jokingly smacks her hand away.

"No touching the dancers." He says before turning his butt toward her and shaking it.

We're all laughing at him and he gives his butt a smack. "Get up here and dance with me, Kamdyn." He tells me.

"No, I'm good." I say staying where I'm at.

"Oh, come on." He comes over to me and pulls me up and starts dancing with me. I do a little dance and Ian and Lexie do cat calls making me laugh that much harder.

"Anyone have any dollar bills?" Nick asks.

I smack him and he laughs. "I told you, you can easily pay your way through college."

"So could you." I tell him playfully smacking his butt.

"Let's just drop out of school and be strippers." He tells me. "How about you, Lexie? You want to be a stripper?"

She stands to her feet. "Of course. I'd be rich in a month."

"Let me see what you got." Nick says.