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“Laters, chickenshit.”
The door shuts behind him, and when I sit, staring at the sparring match on the television, I bring my thumb to my lips. It’s still sticky with peach gloss. Still sweet with the warmth of her lips. And I know that if I don’t keep my distance, after tonight, I won’t be able to resist her.
5
SUMMER
For three weeks, Parker barely looks at me. When Mac returned to work, he hovered, watching us closely. A part of me wanted to flirt and act every bit the child he takes me for. If it didn’t only make the reminder of his rejection worse, maybe I would have. If the thought that my actions would only add to his stress didn’t bother me so much.
“Summer!” Honor calls as I walk into the Mexican Taco n’ Rita tapas place where I’m meeting my housemates and some friends from school.
It’s the first Friday I’ve had off in a long time, and I sorta feel awful for rejecting tonight’s extra shift Parker offered. But I needed the break. To get away from my Parker obsession just for one night. Because the more he edges around me, the greater the want inside me becomes. He’s all I see at work. All I think about outside of work. And at night, when I’m all alone in my bed, it’s the thought of him that has me touching myself. Every fucking night, I silently cry his name. The longing of my heart and body suffocates my sensibilities. And it never dies. The memory of his touch. Of the way our hands laced together, our bodies moving in sync…
God, my heart punches wildly in my chest at the mere thought, even as I navigate the crowded tables of the open-air restaurant.
“Hot damn,” Alice hollers, standing to give me a hug before she pulls back to inspect the emerald-green dress that hardly covers my ass. “Girl, you look so damn sexy.”
Alice is the most tactile of our group, and in keeping with her wandering hands, she draws over the crisscross of the backless number when I sit down beside her. Looking down my slinky decolletage, she adds, “My lady boner is so fucking hard right now.”
“Please tell me you haven’t taken that herbal Viagra crap again,” Honor groans at her, pouring me a drink from the margarita pitcher.
“Want some?”
“You’re like…the horniest person I know,” I chuckle, pushing away the vial Alice holds up between us with a wiggle of her brows and favoring the tangy elixir of the prickly pear margarita I sip down. “Do you really need it?”
“Girl, a few drops of this and you’ll be buckin’ broncos all damn night.”
“So…” Honor pulls out a familiar flyer from her purse and throws it down onto the middle of the table, tapping a glittery black fingernail over the name I’ve seen advertised all over the hotel. “Can you get us in?”
Shit.
“Noah Jackson is the hottest thing right now,” Alice growls, fanning herself with one hand while she adds a couple of drops of her buckin’ bronco potion.
“It’s my night off…” And I really can’t be near Parker right now.
Not when all my orgasms—the last only God knows how long—belong to him.
“Noah-fucking-Jackson.” It’s all Honor says with dreamy eyes that make me feel like the shittiest friend if I don’t help a girl out.
“Besides, have I mentioned how hot you look tonight?” Alice murmurs in a mock seductive tone.
“And that matters why?”
She and Honor exchange a loaded glance at my question before they start making moaning sounds. Alice clenches her hands around the edge of the table as she throws her head back and groans, “Parker…Parker…fuuuuuck…”
“I hate you.” My face heats with my embarrassment, making me all too aware of the extent of my patheticness.
“The walls are thin, lovebug.”
Oh my God, I’m mortified. “I’m not even loud.”
“The vibrator is, and the walls…really freaking thin…” Honor laughs, wrapping her arm around my shoulders and pressing a kiss to the side of my head. “Hey, we’re not judging. Masturbation is healthy, and besides, not all of us have whore on our bucket list.” She sticks her tongue out at Alice.
“Put it on me ’cause I wear it with pride, bitches!” Alice sings with the background music barely able to cut through her shameless remark while she tops up our glasses.
“Don’t waste the dress, lovebug.” Honor grasps my face in her hands as she Eskimo kisses me. “Whore-bag over there is right. You look gorgeous, and someone should be lucky enough to take advantage of you tonight.”
“By someone, she means Hot Boss.”
