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“Another proposition?” he asks. He lifts his eyebrow and sits forward. His T-shirt stretches across his chest, and I look away from his distracting biceps. “I can’t wait to hear more.”
“Maybe proposition isn’t the right word. Amendment is more accurate. I want to make an amendment to our current arrangement,” I say.
“Well go on, then,” Shawn says, and his voice is a caress against my cheek. “Tell me what you’re thinking.”
Suddenly, I’m not sure this is a good idea after all. I’ve lost my bravado because he’s looking at me, and I’m thrown back to when he took me in his mouth and made me want to jump from the highest cliff into a pool of glittering wonder below.
Three minutes with him, and I nearly tipped over the edge, frustration and longing and tension rising to the surface like an old friend.
Friend.
Shawn is myfriend.
A friend who was hard when he was kissing me.
I can do this.
“I want you to fuck me,” I blurt out, and Shawn nearly drops his glass. His eyes widen and his mouth opens like he’s about to interrupt me, but don’t let him. “A one-time thing, to get this attraction to each other out of our systems. I know you were affected by our seven minutes in heaven. I was too. If we just do it once, it’ll scratch that itch. We can go back tonotkissing each other and pretend like it never happened.”
He stares at me, then he does the one thing I was not prepared for: helaughs.
Shawn throws his head back and his shoulders shake. He clutches his chest and tries to catch his breath. I frown as his deep and rumbly laughter rings in my ears.
“What’s so funny?” I ask.
He sets down his drink. “You want us to fuck?”
“That’s what I said, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, but I’m trying to understand why.”
“Because I’m not the only one who liked that kiss, Shawn. I thought about it all night last night when I got home from the game. I replayed it when I used my vibrator this morning,” I say, and he lets out a strangled sound.
Good. I want him to suffer. My toy wasn’t nearly as good as his fingers would be, and I’ve been daydreaming about how deep he’d be able to get all afternoon.
“I’ll admit the kiss was good,” he says, and his laughter stops. “Better than good. You’re hot as shit, Lacey. And, in the spirit of transparency, I thought about you when I jerked off in the shower last night,” he adds, and the tips of his ears turn red. “But hooking up with each other could complicate things. Didn’t we agree tonotbe physical? Fucking goes against that plan.”
“We did, but that was before we realized the chemistry between us. You’ve seen my boob, Shawn. What’s a little more?” I ask, and I hate how desperate I sound.
Shawn rubs his hands together. His eyes bounce away from my face and his attention catches on the low-cut sweater I tugged on before I left my apartment. It’s cruel to tease him like this, I know. But I’m a woman with needs, and he’s the only one who I want to fulfill them.
“Just once?” he asks slowly, like he’s trying to process what I’ve asked and is seriously considering going along with the idea.
“Just once. We have one good night, and then tomorrow it’s like nothing happened,” I say.
“You want me to finger you and then pretend like it never happened?”
I swallow and play with the zipper on my boot. “Yes.”
“You want to say my name when you come and then pretend like it never happened?”
“Mhm. That’s exactly right.”
“You want me to taste your pussy then sit down next to you at Maggie and Aiden’s house for dinner and pretend like it never happened?” Shawn asks, and I nod.
“Yup. We’re adults. We’ve both had one-night stands before. What makes this any different?”
“Because we’re best friends who constantly orbit in each other’s vicinity,” he says. “We’re going to see each other on holidays for the next forty years. What if it’s awkward?”
