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“Well, no, but I wouldn’t have pegged you for a woman who would have sex with your stepbrother in a bathroom, but you did!”
“It was a one-time thing. It isn’t going to happen again.”
“But you want it to. You’ve thought about him, even in your dreams. Which shows that your subconscious wants him as much as you do.”
“Isn’t my subconscious a part of me?”
“You know what I mean. You need to call him. You need to see him. Naked.”
“I wish I could, but I can’t. All it would take is one picture of Zach and me together, and I would be all over the internet just like my mother is.” I showed him the article.
“Wow. That’s a horrible picture of her,” Liam said with a pained expression.
“Everyone loves a villain, and the press has already decided my mother is it. Not that I blame them. She certainly hasn’t endeared herself to them over the years.”
“What better way to make her look good than to have a love story to go with the divorce.”
I just glared at Liam, and he shook his head, understanding his comment wasn’t right.
“The best thing I can do is stay low. Stay out of it, and hopefully, when everything dies down, Zach will still want to see me.”
“And what if he doesn’t? What if you miss your chance to be with him because you didn’t want to take a chance?”
“Then he and I weren’t meant to be. And it’s probably for the best if he moves on. I might try and do the same. It could be years before all of this crap with the divorce dies down, and we could see each other. Naked, as you like to say.”
“All the more reason to see him now! While you can, in secret.”
“Yeah, that will work out well. All I need is one picture of me sneaking out of his house in the morning, and it becomes an even bigger thing than if we were open and honest about it.”
“So then do that. If it’s the lesser of two evils.”
“Not how it works. I appreciate your help, but I’m not going to change my mind. Did you want to talk about something else?”
“No, that was it. I just wanted to see how you were doing. I can see you are just as miserable as you were two days ago,” he muttered.
“I am not miserable.”
“Right? You’ve been moping around your classroom, and you didn’t want to go to happy hour last night. You have never turned down happy hour.”
“I was tired. Can’t a girl be tired?”
“She can if that’s what it really is. But if you’re avoiding people because you’re depressed because you’re missing a guy you could be with if you wanted to, then it isn’t.”
“It isn’t that simple. I wish it were.”
“But it is. You want to be with him; he wants to be with you. That’s all that matters. In the long run, no one is going to care about you and Zach. Yes, you two have very well-known parents getting divorced, but that’s on them, not you two. Plus, you were the one who was saying you needed to start settling down, getting serious about life, and not sleep around.”
“And what did I do but sleep with the first guy I came in contact with.”
“One you’ve wanted for months. He wasn’t some dude you met at a bar, but your realtor and your stepbrother. You might try and convince yourself that it was just a spur of the moment kind of thing, but I know you, and it wasn’t.”
“Yes, but—” Maybe Liam was right. Maybe I had wanted things to happen between Zach and me. I certainly wanted to sleep with him. I had thought about it since the moment I met him. Had it not been as reckless as I thought it was? Or had it been even more reckless because of who he was?
“I’ll leave you to think about that. I have to go to spin class.”
“You go and do that.”
“I know how much you hate it. But Pilates this weekend?”
