Elodie snaps her fingers. “Damn it, Vienna. I bet that you were able to keep it together, but you gave in.” She shakes her head but then leans forward and winks at me. “But it was worth it, right?”
My mouth drops open as I stare at these three women, realizing that I was just coerced to tell the truth and I’m not even sure how it happened. “How—how can you tell?”
Laney waves her finger up and down my body. “Because I’ve had that look, the look of being freshly fucked.” Her nose scrunches up. “And now I just realized I’m referring to my brother being good at sex.”
Elodie nods. “Yup. I’ve seen that look in the mirror too. You’ve been dickmatized, Vienna.”
Clearing my throat, I reply, “I’m not…dickmatized. It just sort of happened.”
Dilynne rests her hand on my shoulder. “His dick can’t just magically enter your vagina without consent and you spreading your legs, honey. But look…we listen and we don’t judge here. Honestly, I’ll always advocate for a woman having great sex. The world would be a better place if every lady was getting banged into her mattress on the regular. And I’m glad that grumpy Rhonan is getting some because he was starting to give Elliot a run for his money in that department.”
“Elliot seems to be doing a little bit better lately, though,” Elodie interjects.
Dilynne rolls her eyes. “He’s still a giant pain in the ass and always will be as far as I’m concerned.”
“I get the feeling that you and Elliot don’t like each other,” I cut in.
Dilynne gasps dramatically. “Why, whatever gave you that idea?”
Laney mutters, “Please don’t get her started, Vienna. We could be here all night.”
“Did you two date or something?” I ask.
Dilynne nearly bends in half as she laughs. “Oh, shit. That’s hilarious. The answer to that question is no, dearest Vienna. Elliot wouldn’t know what to do with all of this.” She waves her hand up and down her body.
“Let’s focus back on you and Rhonan banging each other,” Elodie says with wide eyes, clearly invested. “This is how you two must have felt when Henley and I were tiptoeing around each other, huh?” She casts her gaze to Dilynne and Laney.
Sighing, I bury my head in my hands. “Dear God.”
Laney wraps her arms around my shoulder. “Hey, in all seriousness, we’re just trying to help. You can talk to us, Vienna.”
When I lift my head and find all three of them staring at me, I sigh in defeat. It’s not like I have Lydia to talk to, and these three know Rhonan better than I do. Perhaps they can give me some insight.
“Fine. I’m—I’m sort of confused because we haven’t really even talked about what us sleeping together means, and both times we’ve had sex this past week, he’s had to leave really quickly… But the sex?” I sigh wistfully. “I didn’t know sex could be like that.”
The sex with Rhonan has been incredible—so much so that I barely recognize myself when he touches me. The moment he opens his mouth and tells me what to do, I instantly obey. He makes me comfortable asking for what I want, safe enough to let go and try something new—and I swear, I’ve never had more than one orgasm during sex before—if I even had one at all.
Dilynne snorts while crossing her arms over her chest. “Surely you’ve observed how closed off Rhonan Hart is.”
“Um, yeah…”
“So do I need to spell it out for you?”
“I think so…”
“He’s not going to just sleep with someone if it doesn’t mean something.”
Laney nods. “She’s right. My brother has always been a bit of a monogamist, and losing Sarah was very tough for him. According to Fletcher, he has only slept with two other women since she passed. He’s just not cut out for casual sex.”
“Should I be concerned that you know this much about your brother’s sexual history?”
Laney laughs, but Elodie and Dilynne shake their heads. “No. Trust me, Dilynne and I have been looking after him for years. And evenElodie knows in the short time she’s been around how my brother thinks. Every decision he makes is calculated. He’s never been the spontaneous type.”
And that’s the part that scares me—because there is very little about my life right now that is grounded. Hell, the only reason I ended up in Blossom Peak is because of a spontaneous decision I made to apply for this job. And given that there are other details of my life that are still in pieces, I’m not even sure what a future could look like here without being completely honest with him, especially about Cole.
My eyes find Laney’s. “I feel strongly for him, but I’m scared.”
“Why?”
