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Penny nodded. “Sounds good.”
They all placed their dessert orders when the waiter stopped by, then Penny let the others at the table do the majority of the conversing for the rest of the evening.
Her gaze kept flitting back to Gage and Marjorie, observing the way the other woman flirted, flipping her long hair over her shoulder, batting her thick eyelashes, laughing and leaning close.
Every move Marjorie made seemed so natural, so…feminine. And it was obvious Gage was attracted to her, his attention focused solely on his beautiful date.
Penny had started observing Gage more closely of late, her lifetime membership to the locker room still holding strong. He often regaled the nerd circle with stories—okay, he bragged—about his sexual conquests, so she knew there weren’t too many nights Gage went to bed alone. Though he’d also pointed out he didnotdo sleepovers.
Toby and Rich had started a list of “Gage Excuses,” keeping track of all the clever, sometimes creative reasons Gage had given his dates for leaving right after doing the deed. Something Penny told them was juvenile and stupid. Not that they listened. Instead, they insisted they were just compiling the data for their own future dates.
Which always made her snort. As if Toby or Rich would ever need an excuse—or use one. If a woman ever let one of those guys in her bed, she’d have to hire a moving company to get their asses out the next morning.
However, the more she heard—and witnessed for herself—the more she realized that Gage understood what made women tick.
He was an expert when it came to her sex, while she—despite being a damn female her entire life—felt like queen of the cluelessness.
She mentally compared her outfit to Marjorie’s, her too-loud, too-buttoned-up shirt and jeans versus Marjorie’s black minidress that left nothing to the imagination. Then she glanced across the table at Jess. Even her friend had taken special pains tonight, wearing a simple but elegant white blouse that hinted at the cleavage below—something she’d noticed both Tony and Rhys appreciating—and crisp black slacks.
Jess, like Marjorie, wore her hair down and loose, both women managing those soft waves that looked effortless, but no doubt required a hair dryer and curling iron and would involve her needing to put her Switch down.
As if that would happen.
Her cute little town onAnimal Crossingneeded tending. Those bugs and fish weren’t going to catch themselves.
And while Jess’s makeup wasn’t as overdone as Marjorie’s, it enhanced her beauty. Penny ran her hand over her chin, aware that if the zit residing there got much bigger, it was going to need its own zip code.
She took in the way Rhys was holding Jess’s hand, the way he squeezed it familiarly, the way he gripped it like he couldn’t sit next to her without touching her. The way Tony toyed with her hair.
Then she looked back at Marjorie, at the way Gage kissed her cheek before they rose to leave. The way he helped her put on her jacket. The way he wrapped his arm loosely around her waist.
She wanted what Jess and Marjorie had. Wanted it with every fiber of her being.
Silently, she made a vow, right then and there, that she would do anything, change anything, to get what she wanted. And she gave herself a deadline.
Because she wasn’t going into the thirties as a single womanora virgin. Which gave her one year and one month to get her shit together.
But she needed a tutor, an expert, someone who knew not only what made women attractive to men but someone with bedroom skills as well, someone who could teach her not only how to flirt but how toseduce.
She took one last look toward the door as Gage and Marjorie left.
Penny knew exactly who to ask.
