Tempting (Red Lips & White Lies, #1)

by Bella Matthews

“I’d like to make a toast.” My big brother, Easton, tugs me to his side and raises his beer. “To my baby sister, Mackenzie. Congratulations on your new job, Kenz. It’s good to finally have you home.” Everyone raises their drinks high in the air and cheers. “Love you, kid.” He drops a kiss on the top of my head like I’m one of his babies instead of his sister. “Dude. She’s two years younger than your wife. Not sure I’d be calling her kid,” one of the guys, I think Callen, laughs, and Easton flips him off before I wiggle out of his hold. “Maybe they’re into that,” gets called out before Lindy shakes her head and kisses Easton’s cheek. She whispers something in his ear, and he smacks her ass. I’m surrounded by hornballs. All of them. But even that thought puts a smile on my face because they’re my people. And it’s hard to put into words how much I’ve missed being with them. My friends. My family. The ones I claimed as my own after our mom died and left Easton and me with our cousin Juliette as our legal guardian. Jules married Becket Kingston and managed to give us an enormous family who took us in and claimed us as their own. But even better, with them came Brynlee and Lindy. The closest thing I’d ever had to sisters. They introduced me to the twins, Everly and Grace, and as they say, the rest is history. My history. These women took in a heartbroken little girl and refused to let me close myself off. We were inseparable. The kind of girl squad most teenage girls—hell, most ...