There was not one ounce of hesitation in my voice. “Be there infive.”
I ended the call and began rummaging in my drawers, looking for something worthwearing.
“Everything okay?” Vince asked, straining his neck to look back atme.
“Seems one of my friends is at the bar having a bad night,” I explained, slipping a shirt over myhead.
He smiled as he watched me dress. “I had fun with youtonight.”
I stepped into my pants and wiggled them up my legs, not responding to him. For the first time, I didn’t know what to say to someone who I just got out of bed with. Everything felt wrong. I was trying to get back to my life, but it seemed like my life was shifted a little bit to the left, and it suddenly looked all askew. This was what I did. Callie Ward; Queen of the One-Night Stands. It was the only thing that made sense in mylife.
So why did it feelawful?
“That’s it for us, though, right?” Vince’s voice took on a dark, dry tone. “Guys around the base say that’s yourmodus operandi." He gave a small chuckle, as if he told a great joke. “Hit-It And Quit-It CallieWard.”
I stilled, bent over, ass in the air, with my pants halfway up my legs. “Are you trying to slut-shame me?” I barked out an obnoxious laugh and yanked my pants the rest of the way up. “What are you, a Neanderthal? Any guy in the precinct gets to fuck around all they want, and they get congratulated for it, but I get slapped with that pathetically unoriginalnickname?"
“I just didn’t think it was true. But here you are, planning on leaving not five minutes after we hooked up." Vinceshrugged.
“What is your question, Cave Dweller? You think somewhere in the three seconds and three pumps you used your dick on me that you somehow awakened my sexual awareness for only you?” I stormed forward and got in his face. “You want to really want to know why I won’t fuck you again? Because now that it’s done – and I’m still unsatisfied, by the way – you’ll be easy to forget. You did nothing to stand out. I’ll wash you off in a quickshower.”
“Shit, Ward. It’s fucked up, okay? I liked you. I didn’t want it to be justthis.”
“Go fuck yourself,Vince.”
