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She stretched out her legs which was her way of saying that she wanted to be put down. I set her down, and she grinned at me. “I did!” she exclaimed. “We got ice cream and fast food, which you never let us do!”
I sent a pointed look at Klaus. He knew how much I hated her having fast food, but then again, he did like to do things just to get a rise out of me.
“Well, I’m happy that you had fun,” I told her.
Her attention turned away from me, and I looked to see that Quinn had come downstairs. She had changed into one of my shirts and a pair of her own shorts. Her hair was messy, and she’d attempted to pull it into a bun. My eyes widened when I saw her because she was in my clothes. That would give Klaus a clear picture of what had happened, why he’d had to keep Paige, and why it had taken me so long to answer the door.
Klaus sentmea pointed look this time, and I swallowed. I hadn’t wanted him to know.
“Quinn!” Paige exclaimed and hugged her before she backed away and looked at what she was wearing. “Is that daddy’s shirt?” she asked with her little head cocked to the side. I sighed. This was exactly what I hadn’t wanted. What had Quinn been thinking? Obviously, she had known who would be at the door.
“Have you had breakfast, Paige?” I asked her, and she shook her head. “Then how about you go help Quinn make breakfast?”
“Okay!” She grabbed Quinn’s hand, completely forgetting about the question that she asked. “Come on, Quinn, we’ve got to go.”
“Quinn,” Klaus greeted.
“Klaus.” And then she looked at me, but I didn’t say anything. We would talk about her discretion at a later time.
“You hit that!” Klaus exclaimed, his voice low so that the ladies wouldn’t be able to hear.
“Klaus,” I said, exaggeratedly.
But he wasn’t going to let it go. “You did,” he reiterated. “How did it feel? Was she any good?”
“Klaus.”
“Just answer my questions, and I’ll let it go.”
“Yes, we had sex,” I told him, evenly. “Is that what you wanted to hear?”
“I can’t believe it,” he told me. “My brother is sleeping with the help. A new chapter of his life.”
All of my life, I’d been forced to learn how to tune my brother out because of all of the nonsense that tended to spew from his lips. Usually, he was wrong, but this time he was right, and I just didn’t want to admit it. I didn’t have to tell him everything, after all.
10
Quinn
Icouldn’t believe that it had been a month since our tryst. How did time fly by so fast? I could remember sleeping with Ezra as if it was yesterday. I felt the phantom of his touches on my neck, breasts, and other parts of my skin. I could still feel his lips wrapped around my nipple and on my clit. But it hadn’t been yesterday, far from it, even though I wished that it had been.
And the worst part was that Ezra had been wrong. Sleeping with him, not once, but twice, was supposed to make us stop longing for each other. It had only made me want him more, which was a fear that I’d had before we even slept together. And it turned out, I was right…unless it wasn’t mutual. Although I doubted that was the case.
I knew that Ezra wanted me again. I could tell it by the way he looked at me sometimes or stared after me with that obvious lust in his eyes. He had made good on his promise, though. It wasn’t going to happen again, even if there was nothing more I wanted than to feel his sweaty body against mine one more time.
Ezra was, by far, the best lover that I’d ever had. He wasn’t the only one. I’d had two lovers in the past, and before Ezra, had sex four times before that. And it wasn’t that they were terrible. In fact, at the time I’d thought that they were good, but that was because I hadn’t known what to expect. I hadn’t known what was good and what was bad. To me, it hadn’t been anything spectacular, just a chore that women did in their free time, for the benefit of the guy. I hadn’t even dared to think that there could be more to it.
But Ezra had taught me a lesson that I would never be able to forget. Sex and lovemaking were supposed to be equally as good for the woman as for the man. I was supposed to be pleasured, and I was supposed to feel good. It wasn’t just about the guy. And what Ezra had shown me had made me obsessed. The way that he’d sucked and kissed me had been the best thing that I’d ever felt, and everything in me wanted more.
Morgan told me that finding a man to give you good sex was a hard task. And if I had found that, then I needed to hang onto him…although that was far easier said than done in my case.
Our sex had been passionate and rough, definitely not what I had expected from him, and something I was unfamiliar with. But it had happened, and I needed to stop thinking about it now. It was over and done with, and I knew that. So, why couldn’t I get that through my thick head?
It had happened, and now it was over.
Sandwiches had seemed like an ideal lunch today, although working for Ezra meant that they weren’t just normal sandwiches. Ezra bought the most expensive pumpernickel bread, and I made sure to toast it ever slightly before adding the meats and cheeses that he and Paige liked. Then, I grabbed some white cheddar popcorn as a side and poured glasses of water before setting everything around the table.
While I waited for Paige and Ezra to come and take a seat, all I could think about was how much our relationship had changed in the previous month. No, we were no longer sexual towards each other, and he hadn’t touched me. That didn’t mean that he was cold-hearted as he used to be.
