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“Flirting doesn’t count,” Jewel said.
I looked to Piper, who shook her head. “She’s right. Man-induced orgasms required.”
“Did you orgasm?” Jewel asked.
I straightened and said with a drawl, “A girl doesn’tOand tell.”
“Bullshit,” Jewel said with a laugh. “This is us.”
Which was totally valid. I hadn’t planned to be evasive anyway. That’s why I’d sworn them to secrecy. I trusted these two completely.
“So?” Piper prompted. “Oor no?”
“Ohh, there were manyO’s,” I purred.
“Many!” Piper sat up straighter, and both of my friends leaned closer.
“How many times have you been together?” Jewel grasped her glass but didn’t seem to remember she had a drink because she was too involved in my news.
“One night. Three times. More than threeO’s,” I spilled out. Before they could ooh and ahh too hard, I delivered the downside. “But it’s been almost a week, and he’s avoided me since.”
“Men are so stupid,” Jewel said.
Not as quick to judge, Piper asked, “Have you talked about what happened?”
I recounted the morning-after conversation from Monday, before Knox had headed off to his meeting with Ava.
“Okay…secret lovers is kind of hot,” Jewel said. “Except…”
“There’s been nothing to keep secret,” I said.
“That’s so disappointing.” Frowning, Piper bent down and drank from her straw.
“So he’s just been locked in his room or what?” Jewel asked.
“Locked in his office. Working late into the night. During the day, he leaves to write in other places sometimes.”
“He didn’t do this before?” was Jewel’s next question.
“He worked some during the day but nothing like this.”
“Which is completely understandable,” Piper said. “He’d just found out he was a dad.”
“Right. I understand he needs to work,” I insisted. “There’s a difference between needing to work and hiding from the nanny you boinked.”
“Boinked,” Jewel repeated with a laugh.
Piper wasn’t laughing. She was studying my face way too hard. “How into this guy are you, Quincy?”
“I’m not,” I insisted quickly. “Remember, leaving for school soon?”
“Plus the age difference,” Jewel said.
I bit my lower lip, then said, “I don’t know how that’d work long-term, but in bed… Let’s just say he knows what he’s doing.”
“Ohh?” Piper said.
I leaned farther into our huddle, even though no one around us could hear over the music. “Of course, it’s been forever since I was with someone other than Mitchell, and sex with him was fine, but Knox?” I lifted my brows way up my forehead for emphasis. “Seriously suggest you test out the older-guy theory. Not with Knox,” I added quickly, then laughed as if it was a joke, but I couldn’t stand to think about Knox even going on a date with someone else. Even though we were a temporary thing, if a thing at all, that would hurt.
