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“You’re Jay’s father. I’m his best friend. How would we explain this to him?”
“We don’t have to tell him.” Scottie flinched, and I winced at the awful words. Of course, he wouldn’t agree to continue this—whatever the hell this even was—with me? I had nothing to give him but a tough life. I didn’t even have an apartment. Shit, what was I thinking?
“Hiding it from Jay?” He chewed on his bottom lip. “Griff, I don’t know. What exactly are you offering me?”
I stared at Scottie with his handsome face, refined mannerisms, honest expression, and goodness. He deserved way better than me. After a while, even the sex would get old with nothing to sustain it.
I removed his hand from my wrist and squeezed his slender fingers gently, then dropped his hand. “Forget it. I have nothing to offer you.”
Blindly I grabbed a pair of jeans out of the closet, then rifled through the drawer to find a T-shirt.
“How about respect?”
With the clothes clutched in my arms, I walked back to him.
“What?”
“What if you offer me respect?”
“Respect?”
He nodded, his chest rising and falling hard, as though it took everything out of him to say the words. “Yes, I want to do the things I like in the bedroom and still be respected the next morning.” He rubbed his arms. “I don’t want to feel ashamed of it.”
I frowned. “Do you enjoy the things you do in bed?”
“Yes.”
“Then what’s there to be ashamed of? Why would I make you feel ashamed of that?”
“You’d be surprised, but that’s what I want.”
“What about love? Commitment? That sort of thing.”
He shrugged. “If it happens, it happens. With you or someone else.”
But I didn’t like the idea of Scottie being in love with another man.
“Let me get this straight. You’re willing to have a casual sexual relationship with me, but you don’t need any form of commitment, only me respecting you?”
“Exactly.”
“And you’d risk your friendship with my son for it?”
“I don’t expect you to understand.”
“Then tell me. You know about all my troubles with my son, but you’ve shared nothing with me about you.”
He snorted and pushed up his glasses. “I shared too much.”
“Yeah, but not what counts.”
He heaved a sigh. “Can I take a rain check on explaining? I really should go see if Jay is okay. He didn’t respond to the message I’d sent him last night.”
“All right, but have dinner with me tonight.”
“Umm, I don’t think so.”
“Come on, Scottie. You let me fuck your brains out. Now let me take you to dinner.”
