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My brain was still scrambled from the orgasm. Holy shit. I’d never had sex like that before. Hell, I’d never come that hard, either. It was like my entire body had lit up like a fireworks show.
Watching her straighten up and put her clothes back on, her face completely content, pulled at more than just the part of me who loved pleasing a woman. I was happy I’d pleased her, specifically, and I wanted to do it more.
I wasn’t supposed to feel like that toward her. But my feelings were already starting to leave the station, and I couldn’t call them back.
CHAPTER11
Brooke
Our food delivery came not long after Lucas and I had sex, and somehow, it wasn’t all that awkward to sit there and eat after what happened. It was seamless.
Was it just because we weren’t suddenly interrupted by people coming in, like we were before? Because we could relax with each other?
No, this felt different. More than just a release of the sexual pressure building up between us followed by some good food. A little flutter inside my belly kept appearing when I was with Lucas, and I didn’t know what to do about it. I hadn’t fallen for a lot of men, but I’d fallen for enough of them to know my feelings for him were going beyond a teenage crush and into something terrifyingly real.
His big smile and good humor just radiated throughout every one-on-one interaction we had, making me feel good.
I didn’t need to equate feeling good with someone as something more. I’d always done that. Friends could make you feel good, especially friends you had sex with. But that didn’t mean they had feelings for you.
I’d learned that the hard way with my ex. He always made me feel good at the beginning, but that slowly descended into subtle digs that made me feel less and less worthwhile every time. Then, before I knew it, he was falling out of love with me.
And besides, I was hooking up with Lucas Thomas. And I was me, Brooke. I definitely wasn’t the same awkward girl I was in high school, but I wasn’t on his level whatsoever. He really was the guy that every girl wanted, and even seeing him at the office, he was still that man.
Women’s eyes lingered on him, and some were even too nervous to speak to him. He commanded attention, all eyes on him as he spoke with confidence and charisma. Wherever he went or whatever he did, people followed. He was flat-out magnetic, almost too intensely attractive to be around.
Lucas and I could be friends, for sure, but nothing more. I was always the second choice—the girl to pass the time and occasionally have a nice evening with.
I pulled into the parking lot of my apartment building, turned off the car, and sighed. Jamie was home, at least. I was already stewing in these ugly feelings, and I needed to talk about them.
Jamie was on the floor in front of the TV, half-heartedly stretching and watching Food Network.
“Hey,” she said, turning to look at me over her shoulder. “You’re home late.”
“Yeah. I stayed late to finish a project, and things just… happened.” I put my purse down and kicked off my heels.
“What do you mean by ‘things’?”
“Me and my boss.” I swallowed. I hadn’t told her about the first hookup, since I’d gone directly down to the casino after and had gotten in after she’d been to bed. Plus, it’d felt like a fluke. But now we’d done it again, so brushing it off wasn’t as easy. “We hooked up. Again.”
“What?” Jamie scrambled to her knees and rested her hands on the coffee table. “Which boss?Again?”
“Lucas. The one I went to high school with. Just a second. I need to get out of my work clothes.” I went to my bedroom, which was just off the living room, and changed into my pajamas.
When I came back out, Jamie was pulling ice cream out of the freezer.
“You’ve been holding out on me,” Jamie said. “Also, chocolate chip cookie dough, or vanilla caramel? Or half of each?”
“Half of each.” I rested my hands on the kitchen counter and sighed again.
“Explain everything. Isn’t he crazy hot?” She scooped a bit of ice cream into two huge mugs, then pushed the first full one toward me. “Tell me about each time.”
“He is definitely crazy hot.”
I spooned up a bit of each flavor and took a bite. Then, I explained how things had justhappened. His blue eyes undressed me, and I melted without a second thought. If I hadn’t been a little sore between my thighs, I wouldn’t have believed that we’d actually had sex.
“So the sex was great, and he’s hotandgenuinely nice?” Jamie asked. I nodded. “So why not see where it goes?”
“He’s my boss!” I let out an incredulous laugh. “I can’t screw around with my freaking boss.”
