eyes and I sniffled.
“Are you okay, baby?”
I couldn’t tell him. I was afraid to ask, but I had to know.
“Why am I a slut?”
He smiled and kissed my wet cheek. “Because I know you.”
My heart hammered. What did he know?
“I know you want variety. I know you want someone different.”
I shook my head. “I only want you.”
Will laughed. “Keeping you interested is a challenge, and Talia, I love a challenge.”
“Why does that make me a slut?”
“Slut isn’t a dirty word. A slut is a woman who loves sex, and I learned that about you the first time we met.”
We’d had sex that night
hot, wild, slutty sex. “So it’s a compliment?”
“Mm-hm.” He lay beside me and held me close, falling asleep.
“I don’t know….”
“You will.” He yawned and closed his eyes. “I love you, Talia.”
Those words cut right through my heart. “I know.” I should’ve told Will I loved him too, but I couldn’t, not with someone else still in my head.
I’d had three orgasms that night, but wanted more. What made me so greedy? Will never left me wanting, but when I reached for his cock again, I felt a soft snore on my shoulder, and let him sleep.
Was Alex still awake?
Waiting in the leather chair where we’d kissed? Where I let him touch my…? I could find him. If he wasn’t in the living room, he was probably sleeping in the guest bedroom. I could sneak in…. No, he’d know as soon as I left my bedroom. He’d know I wanted him. Alex was evil. He made me feel dirty. He made me like it. With Will, I was a beautiful slut. With Alex, I was a dirty slut. Could I be with both men?
What the hell was I
thinking? I loved Will; I didn’t want Alex. I would never let him touch me again. I rolled over and wrapped my arms around Will, clinging to him while sleep eluded me.
Darkness crept into the room, and I closed my eyes before it found a way into my heart.
I woke up in bright sunlight with strong memories of another dream about him. It was just a dream, right? I didn’t really kiss him, touch him…
come for him. Oh no….
Will stood in the kitchen, laughing with Alex.
What would Will do if he knew his best friend had groped his girlfriend? What would he do if he knew I’d liked it? Shake it off, Talia. He couldn’t know. It would hurt him too much.
I got up and put on my clothes as if they were armor, shielding myself from the gorgeous devil in disguise before I went back to his lair.
He saw me first and smiled a secret smilemean bastard
but I would not fall prey to him again.
Will turned and smiled at me. “Mornin’ beautiful.” He put his arm around my waist, pulling me close and kissing me. “Ready to go home?”
“Yeah.”
“I left my jacket in the bedroom. Be right back.” He kissed me again and left.
I steeled my resolve and faced Alex, smiling with concrete confidence and absolute certainty that I would not
“I made you come without touching you.” His eyes glittered as black as his heart.
“Next time there will be touching.”
My confidence crumbled and his words stripped my armor while my faithless body begged for his touch. “There won’t be a next time,” I lied.
Alex advanced, backing me against the counter, but our bodies did not meet. Mean bastard was teasing me. A sweet smile played on his lips, but his eyes held a dangerous promise. “Next time there will be fucking.”
His lips touched mine, closed, appropriate, perfectly pure. Purely tempting.
Next time. Absolute certainty.
All dirty words.
I liked them.
Next Time
“I disabled the system.
There’ll be no record of this conversation or any following.”
The black Armani watch the senior partners gave me for Christmas chafed my wrist, so I took it off and tossed it on my desk. Almost five. “If I can’t get it done tonight, we’ll try again later. Let’s meet when I’m finished, and we’ll discuss our next steps.”
I hung up my office phone and pressed a couple of buttons.