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Coco strolled in, a finger to her lips. “You’re wrong, you know.”
I tilted my head, confused. “About what?”
“Age doesn’t matter to most men,” she said, shrugging. “And he clearly liked you three years ago when you were still a decade apart. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t have slept with you.”
“That was different. I’m even older now and he’s still in his twenties!” Didn’t anyone understand?
Sophie placed a hand under her chin and backed up, sizing me up. “Fine, then don’t go.” She was going the tough love route. “You’re probably right. He’s not going to want to date a woman who isn’t confident and he’s certainly not going to want to date a grandma.”
“Hey,” I cut her off, pointing a finger in her direction, “point taken.”
“So you’ll go?” she asked, her face practically beaming with excitement.
I couldn’t believe I was actually going to do this. That I was going to voluntarily see Lance again and take a surf lesson, no less. Man, I always seemed to lose my mind where Lance was concerned, no question there. And yet, aside from my momentary freak out, I still really wanted to do it. “I’m going,” I exclaimed.
“Wait!” Coco said, putting a finger up before turning to leave. When she came back, she was holding a stick of lip gloss. “Watermelon. It’s shimmery, so it lures them in, and tastes good, so they can’t help but suck on your lips longer.”
”That’s mine,” Sophie told me, giggling, “but you can use it.”
I took it and swiped it over my lips. “I feel silly wearing watermelon lip gloss. Plus, I’m not looking for him to kiss me or anything. I’m supposed to be getting in the water.”
“Sure you’re not.” Sophie blew bubbles. “Sis, how stupid do you think we are? You’re totally hoping he’ll kiss you.”
I looked back at myself in the mirror and exhaled. It was now or never, I supposed. If I didn’t get up the courage to do this now, I may never. And it was just Lance. I mean, I’d been intimate with the man before, this should be nothing. I was just being silly. Yeah, everything was going to be just fine.
I’d keep things casual and act less awkward.
He’d be his usual charming self.
Oh, I was in big trouble.
Sophie practically pushed me out the door. “You’re going to be late!”
I looked back as she kept pushing me, shoving a cover-up at me. Coco passed her my sunglasses, which she then passed to me. “Go!” she cried. “And get dressed in the elevator!”
I held on to the doorframe before leaving, my stuff clutched to my chest. “Are you sure I look all right?”
She swatted my butt and giggled. “You look hot,” she said, grinding her teeth and acting like a total caveman to further the point. “We’ll be here waiting for a full report when you’re done.”
I rolled my eyes. “Ironic that I’m the older one when you’re so pushy.” And with that, Sophie closed the door in my face.
Now I could only look forward. To the elevator where I was going down to the lobby and eventually walking over to the beach. Where Lance would be there waiting for me with a surfboard and that smile that soaked my panties and made me reconsider every single life choice I had ever made.
I’d never been this way with another man before. I didn’t need a man, didn’t ever care one way or another. Never had. But Lance? He was different. He was my weakness. I couldn’t say no to him and I didn’t want to. Ever.
The last time I said no to him, I left this place and never looked back. Three years flew by and I tried my best to not give him a second thought, but sometimes when I was sitting in bed alone or swimming in my pool, I thought back to the memories we shared. I always wondered what my life would look like right now if I hadn’t walked out of the hotel room that day. If I hadn’t left him the way I did.
We both knew it wasn’t going to last, that it was only meant to be what it was—a fling. That didn’t make things any easier, though. Quite the opposite, I wanted more. Feelings were involved as much as I lied to him and myself and said they weren’t.
But he had Mason.
And I had my work, my clients.
Then there was Soph and my parents. I didn’t want to leave my family.
Not that anything had really changed.
Things weren’t simple back then and they weren’t simple now.
