His teasing breath as he spoke was getting me full-on hard, so I had to turn around to face him so I could keep my erection between us.
I ran my hands slowly up his chest, loving that he was that little bit taller than me.
“You could kiss me, gorgeous,” I said.
Joel looked like he was about to lean down to kiss me when he saw something and looked over at the table where Max and Isaac sat. I looked in the same direction. They weren’t alone anymore. There was another guy sitting next to Isaac with his arm around him.
Joel turned to me with a questioning look, but I shrugged. I had no clue who the guy was. I saw Isaac get up and leave the table with the guy, leaving Max on his own. He looked defeated.
We walked over to the table. Joel sat next to Max, who was watching Isaac as he danced with the other guy, and put an arm around him.
“Max, is IsaacyourIsaac?” Joel asked.
Max looked at Joel and nodded. His eyes were shiny with unshed tears.
This wasn’t the time to get to the bottom of this. Isaac looked like he was with someone he knew, and he was a short taxi ride away from home. I leaned over the table and asked Max if he wanted to go home. He nodded.
I took my phone out from my pocket to send Isaac a text to let him know we were going home and I’d catch up with him soon when a voice came from behind me.
“Well, if it isn’t the custard tart man extraordinaire.”
Fuck. Fuck.Fuck. Lucas was an open-as-gay-as-they-come kind of guy who had moved to my area a few years ago. When he came to my café for the first time, he’d shamelessly flirted with me, which I gently shut down, making a joke about his gaydar needing a reset.
“Oh, hi, Lucas. How are you?”
He looked me up and down with overt interest. “Much better for seeing you here, honey,” he drawled in a way he probably thought was appealing but to me was downright weird and unwelcome. He put his hands on my chest, which made me flinch.
“I don’t know what you mean,” I said, grabbing his wrists to remove his hands from me.
“Well, it seems that I was right about you after all. You do play for my team. How about a game…or two over in the bathroom?”
“Lucas, I’m just here with my friends. Not because I’m, um… gay,” I said.
He seemed to have only just noticed Max, who was still looking toward the dance floor, and Joel, who was looking at me with eyes wide open.
“Are you sure, honey? Because I saw you two dancing earlier, and it didn’t look like you were just friends.” He looked between me and Joel as though he was waiting for one of us to agree with him.
“That was just a joke.” I laughed. “My friend here was trying to make his boyfriend jealous, and I just went along with it. They were just teasing each other, that’s all. In fact, they were just about to leave…right guys?” I cringed at my own words, but I was in panic mode and didn’t know what else to say to get Lucas to leave us.
“That’s right,” Joel said, standing up and grabbing Max by the arm to stand up too. “We were just leaving, weren’t we, sweetheart?” he said, punctuating the word sweetheart as though it was two words. That’s what I’d called him sometimes, sweetheart, and it was a clear message that he was beyond angry. I’d not only come out and said I wasn’t gay, but I also lied and made it look as though Joel was in a relationship with Max just to save face.
I watched as Joel and Max left the club hand in hand while I stayed where I was, feeling like the biggest asshole in the history of assholes.
“So, now that your friend is gone, maybe we can have some fun on the dance floor.”
“Lucas, I’m not gay, and I’m not interested. I was just hanging out with friends for a drink.”
“I was talking to Teresa this week. She said you were on holiday.”
What the fuck? What was he hinting at? Since when did he talk to my aunt?
“She’s such a lovely woman, so caring...”
I didn’t like his tone of voice, and I could feel he was about to say something I wasn’t going to want to hear.
“What are you getting at, Lucas?”
“Teresa was saying how it would be so nice if you found yourself a good girl to settle down with. What would she think if she knew her only nephew likes to take it up the ass?”
