“Sit at the bar,” he directed.“I’ll bring you your usual.”
Corbin nodded and took up residence on the chair closest to the kitchen entrance.Anytime he came in for lunch, he always ordered the roast beef dip sandwich.Customers were arriving and his servers were doing their job, the bar running like a well-oiled machine.
When he brought out Corbin’s lunch, he stayed behind the bar pouring both of them a soda.
“Well?”Corbin asked.“How was the date slash fuck?”
He did not like how his friend worded that.“Respect her, please.”
Corbin’s eyebrows shot up.“I’m sorry.”
Asher sighed.“No, I’m the one who’s sorry.Damn it.”
“What’s going on?”
“I don’t know,” he admitted.“This young woman comes out of nowhere and turns me upside down.”
“That good?”
“I don’t understand any of this.I mean, I made sure we had a lovely dinner, and she thought I missed my calling as a baker.Apparently, I could make millions with my cake recipe.”
“You’ve never baked me a cake.”
“Your next birthday.I promise.”
“Thank you, but that’s not the conversation I was curious about.”
“I know.I...”How did he explain what was irking him?That something told him he shouldn’t have let Juniper go.“I don’t know how to explain it.”
Corbin cocked his head.“Why do you sound weird?”
“What would you say if I told you I can’t stop thinking about her?”He leaned closer.“That I sniffed the damn bedsheets and got a hard-on?”
A frown creased Corbin’s brow.“You sniffed her?Wait, did you happen to bite her?”
“Uh.Why?”
“Sounds like a mate thing.”
Every molecule in Asher’s body came to a screeching halt.“Mates?”
“But you’re not a wolf, so can’t be.”He shrugged.“I’m sure it’s only because you took her V-card.You find yourself a bed partner tonight and she’ll be nothing but a memory in the morning.”
The thought of having sex with another woman disgusted him, but he forced that reaction away.One night, one time.Hedefinitelywasn’t the settling down type of guy.Nope.He liked pussy and he liked not having someone cling to him.
Still.
He tried to ignore the feeling deep inside that he didn’t want any other woman’s pussy.It was probably exactly what Corbin said.It was because he took her virginity.He’d move on and she would as well.
Suddenly, he pictured her holding hands with another man.Kissing another man.All those moans and gasps belonging to someone else.He banged the bar top with his fist and tried to ignore that he hated that fucking thought.That picturing her with some man made him want to go all homicidal on some fictious asshole.
“Asher?”Corbin questioned, staring at him in shock.
Oh, shit, I am so fucked.
