“So glad we got that sorted out.”
“I wasn’t flashing you—”
“Okay.”
“And I wasn’t choking the chicken—”
“Whatever.”
Yeah, me with my hands down my underwear in my sleep is definitely a point in my favor. “My hand fell asleep.”
“Sure.”
She’s walking out the door, showing off her short, silky pajama bottoms that are giving her a wedgie in that sophisticated ass of hers, andfuck me.
“I don’t do this on purpose,” I call after her while I yank my briefs back up with my awake hand. “Thingshappento me. It’s what makes lifefun. One day you’re gonna realize just how much joy and fun and laughter you’ve missed out on because of the stick perpetually wedged up your ass.”
Delaney Kingston, snooty proper princess of Snaggletooth Creek, responds with one stiff middle finger.
“Nice job,” I mutter to my hand and my dick.
My left hand responds by tingling a little more.
Fucking hurts.
But not as much as the ego I didn’t realize could still be bruised.
7
Laney
I am doingthis for Emma.
I amhappyto do this for Emma.
But I still scrub my face way longer than necessary to try to wash out the image of Theo in all of his naked glory on the bed, holding his thick erection against the backdrop of miles of muscles and tattooed skin.
He’s an objectively attractive man.
I can admit that.
I can also very firmly know that I willneveract on any kind of attraction to Theo.Who jerks off in the same bed as someone they’re not even friends with?
And don’t tell me that’s not what he was doing.
Theo Monroe has taken perverse joy in tormenting me—or at least making sure I knew he thought I wasno fun—for as long as I can remember. And while I can appreciate that a grown man wouldn’t want a babysitter, Icannotappreciate that he’d masturbatein the same freaking bed.
I cannot get clean enough.
And alsowhyam I wondering if he knows how to use his equipment for the benefit of someone else?
It’s because he’s so very wrong for me, and it’s been too long since I’ve dated, and I’m getting tired of my mother throwing businessmen from Denver at me and talking aboutsuitable matchesandcontinuing the family linelike we’re some kind of Manhattan socialites instead of a small family who worked hard in the right business at the right time with the right plan.
And because he looked sofunwhen he was smiling at the pool yesterday.
So fun.
Oh, god.
