“I could write this down for you, too, if you want.”
“No, no that’s okay. I now have it burned into my brain forever.”
He grinned then.
He grinned so wide it warmed her insides.
“Well, that sounds like a start to me.”
“As starts go it was pretty fucking good.”
“Then what are we waiting for?”
Instead of answering right away, she took his hands in hers. Maneuvered them slowly away from her head and her hair, until they were spread beneath hers over her open books.
That way, she didn’t have to do this while he was holding her face.
It was hard enough as it was, without him drowning her good sense in affection.
“The rest of me to catch up.”
“Tell me which part is lagging behind.”
“The part that says you want me.”
“I thought we covered that.”
“No, we covered emotional damage.Nowwe have to get into the enormous fucking disparity between the wayyoulook”—she waved a hand in front his face, then her own—“and the wayIlook. Because even if we pretend for a second that you are Bob and I am Betty and neither of us have any connection to each other at all, you still have to admit that Bob is way, way, way hotter than Betty.”
He snorted and shook his head.
“I don’t have to admit that at all.”
“So you’re going to claim, objectively speaking, that you are not hotter than me.”
“Actually, I’m going to claim objectively speaking that the other night I shot my load all over your back after about thirty seconds of fondling your right breast. Your move, Counselor.”
“I don’t have a move, damn it, you justfuckedmy move.”
“Yeah, and I came really, really embarrassingly fast when I did it.”
“It wasn’t embarrassing okay, it was—” she started, but then couldn’t finish.
He had been talking in the abstract. She was referring to the real thing.
And the real thing was complicated and weird and scary.
“It was what, Letty?”
“Youknowwhat.”
“So lemme get this straight: you get that I came so fast because of your hot tits, and the fact that I did come fast turns you on, and you are fully aware that this means I must want you—”
Now it was her turn to cut him off.
Mostly because he’d just said hot tits, and she needed a second to gather herself.
“I’m not fully aware of that at all. I need way more evidence to prove this hypothesis.”
