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I couldn’t honestly say I regretted it. How long had it been since I’d gotten off with someone that age? Too long. And to have it happen in the office—well, that had been extraordinarily hot. I wanted to do it again as soon as possible.
All of which didn’t make it easier to sit across from her father, my oldest friend, and look him in the eye. If he knew the truth, he’d be jumping over the table to rip my head off.
Ah, I could take him.
It was true, and I probably could take Henry in a fight. He was retired, and he’d started to take on the build and fitness of a civilian. In comparison, I was still in near-peak military shape. I wasn’t where I’d been at twenty, but I was still good in a fight.
But that wasn’t the point.
I didn’twanta fight with Henry.
“I might be able to help her,” I said and turned to catch the eye of our waitress, who was passing by—anything to derail the current conversation.
The waitress saw me looking and came over. “Are you gentlemen ready?”
“I’m going to start with the whiskey and bacon flight and then the tomato soup and the prime rib for my main,” I told her, handing over my menu. “What are you doing for dessert tonight?”
“The chef has a creme brûlée three ways.”
“Yes, perfect. I’ll try that. And bring out a bottle of the house red, too, please.”
Henry placed his order too, and the waitress went on her way.
“Listen,” I resumed when she was gone. “Dinner is on me tonight. No arguments.”
“You do this every time,” Henry protested.
“That’s because I can afford this place, and you can’t.” It was true. Thanks to my grandfather’s investments in a tech empire, I had never struggled for money when I was just a little kid. If anything, it was the opposite. Being wealthy and working for the military was a little uncomfortable sometimes. Even high-ranking SEALs like myself didn’t draw big salaries, so the guys I hung around with—like Henry—tended to be high middle-income.
And sometimes we did go to moderately priced restaurants. I wasn’t too good at that. But I also liked cuisine, and Henry had always been willing to come to check out places like this with me, which didn’t stop me from wanting to foot the bill.
“I can afford it.”
“I mean, okay, but if you do, are you going to have to give up something else?”
“You’ve got to stop doing this, Brian. I wouldn’t have agreed to come to this restaurant if I hadn’t been able to handle my bill.”
“I’m paying,” I told him firmly. “You can buy dinner next time we go out.”
“Right, when we go to Joe’s crab shack or something.”
“Will you knock it off, please? It’s not as if I’m even paying with the money I earned. This is my inheritance based on my grandfather’s investments, and there’s more of it than I’d be able to spend in a lifetime. Let me use it to take my damn friend out to dinner.”
Henry grinned. “Okay, okay,” the creases on his face started to clear up. “You win. Dinner’s on you.”
“Thank you.” At least this would help to assuage my guilt a little, although I knew that Henry wouldn’t consider buying dinner for the rest of my life to be adequate compensation for what I had done.
I couldn’t stop picturing her!
Every time I looked down at the table in front of me, it was as if I had her naked right here. Worse, I wasn’t just thinking about and reliving everything we’d done—I also imagined the stuff we hadn’t done. The thing we hadn’t had time to do because we’d been too busy making sure we didn’t get caught.
What would it have been like to taste her?
I fucking loved going down on women. Some guys might have thought it wasn’t a very manly thing to do, but the way the ladies squirmed from one lick convinced me that those other guys weren’t doing it right. They weren’t as adept as I was, so they had to make it seem like there was something unmanly about the practice.
I’d never think myself too good to give a woman pleasure. Why the hell wouldn’t I want the woman I was with to have just as good a time as I did? That was what kept them coming back for more!
I let myself close my eyes, just for a moment, and imagine doing that with Alison.
