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unbutton the shirt again so he could fix it. His fingers fumbled
over the tiny buttons in his haste. He felt as coordinated as a two-year-old.
Damn it. He forced himself to go slower in order to complete the task quicker,
when all he really wanted to do was yank the shirt off, toss it aside and walk
out of the apartment bare-chested. Anything to get him out of here faster.
    “Let me guess.
You’re seeing Nina.”
    Bobby jerked his
head up. Mac stood in the open door of Bobby's bedroom, eating a bowl of cereal
and eyeing him with amusement. Bobby finally noticed the sound of his chewing
and had a feeling he should have heard it long ago.
    He swallowed
another sigh. Most of the time he didn’t mind having Mac for a roommate. It was
easier to afford a place off-base with two of them splitting the cost, and it
didn’t make much sense for both of them to be paying rent on separate
apartments when they were deployed. At the moment, though, he wouldn’t mind
being alone with his thoughts. “Is it that obvious?”
    “I’ve been
standing here for five minutes and you haven’t said a word to me. You’ve just
been buttoning and unbuttoning that damn shirt with a goofy look on your face.
Any idiot could figure out you were thinking about a woman. It's either Nina,
or you've been holding out on me about somebody new.”
    “I don’t need to
find someone new. You’re the one who gets bored after one night.”
    Mac shrugged.
“What can I say? It wouldn’t be fair to the women of the world to tie myself
down to just one right now.”
    “I’m sure they
appreciate that,” Bobby said dryly.
    “Oh, I make sure
they do,” Mac said with a leer, and Bobby had to laugh. Mac was a dog, but the
big, dumb kind who didn’t mean any harm. He was right. Most of the other guys
had stories about relationships gone bad, but Mac had never had an angry ex
show up and all of his stories had happy endings. Maybe it was easier like
that, when there were no expectations beyond a single night. There were no hard
feelings and everybody left satisfied.
    Bobby almost
envied Mac’s carefree, easygoing ways, even if he’d never been the type of guy
who could be satisfied with nothing more than one-night stands himself. He’d
done that for a brief period when he was younger, a single guy out on his own
for the first time with the world at his feet. Suddenly there were women
everywhere—ready, willing and able. He’d practically been a walking erection,
and with none of that blood in his head, it was hard to resist temptation.
    That time in his
life hadn’t lasted long. Though Mac wouldn’t agree, he’d found something empty
about it, and he’d wanted more. Sex wasn’t enough, especially sex with a woman
whose name you couldn’t really remember the next day, if you’d bothered to
learn it at all. It was better to get to know somebody a little, to know she
was a real person, not just some anonymous female body. He liked talking to
women, nothing too deep or serious, just conversation. The way a woman
expressed herself revealed a lot about her, both as a person and what she’d be
like in bed. Whether she was aggressive or shy. Whether she was overly verbal
or liked to use her hands a lot. Not to mention the sex was better when two
people took the time to learn each others’ bodies and tastes. That first
encounter tended to be a little awkward anyway. He liked getting to know what
his partner enjoyed, what made even the quietest woman scream at the top of her
lungs and reduced the most talkative to low moans of pleasure.
    At the same
time, it wasn’t that he was looking for anything long term either. He’d never
had the time nor the interest to dedicate himself to anything serious. After a
while, his partner would start to question where they were going, or the
passion would dry up on its own. Either way, the relationship would come to an
end, but only after more than a few mutually satisfying encounters.
    And then he’d
met Nina. From the