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“I mean… yeah, I’m not going to miss the five-minute sessions.”
“Five minutes,” Phillip mutters. “Right. So, with the dipshit, you had participation trophy sex?”
I blink at him. “Sex doesn’t have winners and losers.”
“Oh, Eden, it definitely does,” he says. “I like winning… and I like making sure the woman I’m with wins, too. Several times.”
I have to swallow before answering. “Oh.”
“And the matches last longer than five minutes.” His tone is the same matter-of-fact one I’m used to. His eyes meet mine with a hint of humor, laugh creases appearing at the corners… but on his knee, his fingers are tapping away.
Like he’s not quite as unaffected as he’s letting on.
“So, you don’t miss it at all, then?” he asks.
“Sex with Caleb?” I ask. “Or sex in general?”
“Both. Either.”
Heat creeps up my neck, but I consider the question. Consider the man in front of me. It feels like we’re veering into a territory that’s less beach and more quicksand. “Both, in the beginning. Now just the second one. The, um, last option. Sex in general.”
Phillip’s lips lift into a curve. “Tough subject?”
“No,” I say. “Well, maybe a little.”
“We can change it.”
I shake my head. “No, no. Do you? Miss it, I mean?”
He gives a slow nod. “Yeah, I suppose.”
“Mmm,” I say. Breathing feels hard. “That’s natural, I guess. In your relationship then… you two didn’t have… that problem?”
Phillip doesn’t look away from me. “No, but we had plenty of others, don’t worry.”
“Oh. Right.”
He tips his head toward me. “So how long has it been?”
“Since I had…”
“Yes,” he says. The unspoken word in my sentence seems to expand in the empty space between us, growing until it’s all I can hear.
“Well, over three months at least,” I say.
He frowns. “Painful.”
“Well, in the beginning, I was too sad to notice any kind of lack, really.”
“That makes sense,” he says. “And what do you—”
My phone chimes loud enough to make me jump. I reach over to where my bag is lying and dig it out.
The text makes me grin. “Oh my God, the turtles are hatching tonight!”
“What?”
“The turtles, they’re hatching tonight.”
