She bursts out laughing, so loudly that people at the other tables start to turn around.
“You don’t need to go through all the theatrics. It won’t work on me.”
“Whatdoeswork, then?”
“Are you seriously asking me that? Are you actually that desperate?”
“Desperate to have you in my bed.”
There, I said it. It’s useless trying to take it back. And, judging by the heat radiating from her cheeks, I reckon I’ve hit the right button.
“Your bed…” she says, composing herself. “So that’s what this is about. You missed out on the opportunity eight years ago, so now you thought you’d give it another go.”
“Casey, please. I never had the chance.”
She looks at me, her brow furrowed.
“We both know it would never have happened that night.”
“You’ll never know, because you left.”
“It wasn’t what you wanted.”
“Maybe I just wanted to have fun with a good friend.”
“No, Casey. That wasn’t what you were looking for. You wanted something else. You wanted everything.”
Casey’s eyes widen in shock. Maybe she didn’t expect me to be so tuned-in; didn’t expect me to see right through her thoughts.
“You wanted me.”
She sighs, then lowers her gaze. I know that she’s about to lie to me, and I know that she doesn’t have the courage to say it to my face.
“Iwantedthat, Nick,” she whispers. “I used to. But not anymore.”
“You’re lying. You still want it.”
“You’re forgetting that I’m sleeping with someone else.”
Don’t do it, Casey. Don’t say it.
“I like going out with him and…I’m satisfied.”
She said it.
The handsome surgeon has just been renamed. Now he’s the dead surgeon.
“You’re only saying that because you don’t know what you’re missing.”
“Oh, please. Go on. Tell me what I’m missing.”
She takes a sip of her wine, trying to calm her nerves; I know what she wants me to say, but she has to find it out for herself. She has towantto find out.
“If I tell you now, you’ll want me to take you away right now and prove to you that everything I said is true.”
I see her hand, which is clasped around her wine glass, start to tremble.
Oh, Casey. Words could never describe the things I want to do with you.
