I evaded by saying, “Can you and I have time, just you andme?”
“Of course, sweeting,” he whispered.
“So you know where my mind is, I just got Maxine back too.Idon’t really want to be in The Mystics right now.”
The Mystics, by the by, being due east.
“Of course.”
“Can we start kissing again?”
He gave me a tender look and moved to me.
He cupped my jaw and declined, gallantly.
“I need to spend time with your mother and sister.”
“Right.”
“And Maitland is never good on his own for too long.Heeasily finds trouble.”
“He’s in my sitting room.There’s no trouble to be foundthere.”
“He could be painting the walls with Maxine by now.”
I laughed softly.
“Don’t mind me, my dearest,” he said quietly.“I’m travelweary.I made haste in getting back to you.I’ll be myself tomorrow.”
He was totally lying.
Though, the “made haste” part was super sweet.
“Okay.”
“Okay,” he replied.
I smiled, and I was so worried, I didn’t quite mean it.
Loren did the same.
But I feared he had a different reason for not meaning his.
ChapterFourteen
Lady Corliss Knows All
Loren
“She has great tits, an exceptional ass, and I curryyour wrath at not only sharing that, but also that I’ve dreamed of itfrequently since I first saw it.I have been moved repeatedly to write sonnetsto the glory of her hair, but fortunately for the world of verse, I’ve not hadthe time to start one.The instant she sees you she races into your arms andsticks her tongue down your throat.She is sheer perfection.And she’s yoursnow, but in less than two months’ time, she will officially be that until theday one or the other of you croak.So allow me to express the depth of myconfusion that you’re sitting here, looking like you wish to murder somebody.”
Loren tossed back the whisky he was rounding in his glassand did not speak after Marlow stopped.
Lamentably, this meant Marlow started again.
“And my further confusion as to why the fuck you’re not withher with your hand up her skirts.”
He shifted only his eyes to his friend.
