“We ate good food, went to the fall festival each night, had cake for Grandma Betty’s birthday, danced, and just hung out. Actually, it was exactly what I needed.”
Especially the sex.
God. I cannot remember the last time I had sex like that.
Sex that not only engaged my entire body but my mind too. Instead of thinking of ways to make each of us reach the finish line, my mind was looking for ways we could do it over and over. To make it last.
I’ve never had sex like that.
“That's it?”
I think for a moment.
“Oh,” I say and hold up a finger. “I caved and decided to read Tobias’s first bestseller.”
Which I did and didn’t tell anyone. Not even Tobias.
For the record, he talks just as dirty in bed as he does in his books.
“Did you now?” Nora grins. “Did you like it?”
“I loved it,” I say and then laugh. “It reminded me why I stopped reading them back in college.”
“Did you stop reading this one?”
“Nope.”
“What changed?”
I spin my chair back to face her.
“What’s going on?” I point at her. “Why are you asking me so many questions?”
“Nothing.” She shrugs and looks away.
“Nora.”
“Nothing,” she says, but this time she laughs. “I just want you to be happy, and I’ve just been worried about you is all. I love that you and Tobias are back to being friends again. He’s good for you.”
“I think so, too.”
I know I told Tobias we shouldn’t tell anyone about us, but I’m going to combust if I don’t tell at least one person.
I open my mouth, but she beats me to it. “It’s probably a good thing that you two never dated or anything.”
Okay, that was not what I was expecting.
“Why do you say that?”
“Because. What would happen if you two became an item and then stopped? Would it be weird? Would you still be friends? Would you be heartbroken? Would he? What if?—”
“We had sex,” I blurt out before she can go on. “All those questions you just asked be damned. We did it.”
Nora’s eyes grow to a size I’ve never seen before, and her bottom lip drops open.
“Say something.”
She just keeps looking at me as if I were Ursula and she can no longer speak.
