The Bigger They Are… (Lovers on the Fringe, Book Two) by Stephanie Julian Read Free Book Online Page A

amazed at how great she felt. Usually if she didn’t get at least six hours, she felt like roadkill.
    Not this morning.
    She felt…vivid. Alive. Horny.
    Amazingly horny.
    Who knew it would take a seven-foot blond god to light up her libido?
    About to roll over and see just how much better she could feel this morning, she stopped when she heard the unmistakable ring of her cell phone. She knew it had to be hers because she didn’t think Andy had the theme from Farscape as one of his ringtones.
    Having a brother who knew his way around a computer editing program did occasionally come in handy.
    Except that was Joss’ specific ringtone.
    “Do you have to get that?” Andy pressed closer, making it clear he would be more than happy to take her mind off whatever Joss wanted. She stifled a groan. What could Joss possible want this early—
    Wait, it wasn’t this early in Scotland. It was actually probably midafternoon. Maybe something had happened? What if the money had fallen through and he was stranded somewhere in Great Britain? What if—
    “Jenna, are you okay?”
    Damn it, she really wished she could say yes to that and mean it.
    “Yes, I’m fine. I just need to answer that.”
    With a sigh, she slid away from Andy, from the heat of his body and the temptation of all that naked flesh.
    Which of course meant he could see her in all her naked glory. She didn’t have many hang-ups about her physical appearance. She kept in shape and if she had a few more pounds than she wanted, at least she carried them in her breasts and ass. Both of which Andy didn’t seem to have a problem with.
    Still, she reached for Andy’s shirt on the floor and pulled it over her head even as she reached her pants and grabbed the phone from the pocket. “Hey, Joss, what’s up? Is everything okay?”
    “Jenna, where are you?”
    She frowned. Her brother sounded worried. Joss never worried. Not when he was lost in some state park in Maine in the middle of winter and definitely never about her. He knew she was steady as a rock.
    Except, the proof of the decaying bedrock of her stable life was still in the bed they’d nearly destroyed last night.
    “Um, I’m at that little B&B in Tioga we talked about. Remember, we discussed this trip before you left.”
    She didn’t want to say too much because she didn’t want Andy to overhear anything. Especially not anything that might make her sound as if she was chasing crackpot cryptids, like her brother.
    “You actually went? Damn, Jenna, for the first time I was hoping you’d ignored me. Doesn’t matter. You gotta get out of there. And fast.”
    A shiver ran up her back at Joss’ anxious tone. “What are you talking about? You’re not making any sense. First you tell me I have to do…something for you and now—”
    “Now I’m telling you to go home. Right now. I don’t have time to go into everything, but you need to get out of that town. Now.”
    “Joss, slow down—”
    “I can’t. We’re getting ready to board the plane and we’re going to get cut off. And they’re confiscating our cells.”
    “I thought you’d already left for Loch Ness?”
    “Change in plans. Look, Jenna, if you trust me at all, please just go home. There’s nothing there. I was totally wrong. Just go.”
    Now he was really starting to freak her out. “Are you okay, Joss? Did you hit your head or something? Do you have a fever, nausea? Did something bite you? Did you eat something you shouldn’t have?”
    She wouldn’t put it past Joss to have tried some mushroom because the locals told him it would help him see the monsters better. Or to have been bitten by some wild animal as he trekked through remote forest.
    “Jenna, this isn’t about me. I’m fine. You just need to leave—”
    The connection clicked off in her ear and she lowered the phone to stare at the blank screen.
    What the hell?
    “Jenna? Are you okay?”
    Andy’s voice sounded strained but she put that down to her own baffled