“I can’t believe we got to come early,” Zoe exclaimed. “This is such a cool house, Cassidy.”

“Thanks. It’s my dream home, that’s for sure.” She swam over to where Claudia was holding on to the side of the pool. “Thirty guests might be pushing it, though.”

“With more than an hour’s drive back to Dallas, you might have every bedroom filled,” Deb warned. “How are you going to feed everyone?”

“It’s catered. There’s a crew coming out about five to set up. We’ll do it outside on the deck since the weather’s good.”

“Then we’ll do it inside later,” Claudia purred as her tongue snaked into her ear.

“Oh, yeah,” Cassidy murmured. “Maybe even before that.”

Claudia moved her mouth to Cassidy’s. “Maybe right here. Right now.”

* * *

Laura stared in disbelief as the anorexic blonde shoved her tongue into the dark-haired woman’s mouth.

“Oh my God! They’re lesbians! Are they going to have an orgy or something? There are four of them!”

God, I have got to buy some binoculars!

Staring, she couldn’t pull her eyes away. But no orgy, no. They seemed to be coupled up and on opposite sides of the pool. But they were doing much more than swimming.

She finally turned away.

“That’s disgusting,” she murmured. It wasn’t even noon yet! “Who does that?”

She slammed out of her room and went into Carla’s…the writing room. However, Carla’s room had a much better view of the pool than her own room. She was drawn to the window.

The large, rectangular pool was now empty.

Well, at least they took it inside, she thought as she let the drapes fall back into place. But who was that? Was there a nympho lesbian living next door? She groaned. How cruel would that be? She hadn’t been on a date in eight months. She hadn’t slept with anyone in…well, in a while.

“Of my choosing,” she murmured as she opened up her laptop.

To say she was in a rut was an understatement. She was simply tired of the endless dates. Tired of meeting new people and none of them living up to her expectations. She was tired of pretending to be interested in someone when in reality, she was bored to tears. She’d told her friends to stop setting her up on blind dates. And they had. But like her mother, she often felt like the odd man out…and even some of her friends had stopping including her when they did group parties and such.