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“Isn’t it sweet nothings?”
Charlee makes an unimpressed face. “You don’t need sweet, Claire. You need dirty. Trust me. It’s thrilling to have a guy tell you he wants to bend you over his car and fuck you until you scream his name.”
“My God, Charlee, what the hell have you been up to?”
She hits me with a sly wink. “Wouldn’t you like to know.”
“Literally, yes. It sounds infinitely more exciting than my lackluster sex life.”
Leaning over the countertop, she looks me over, all squinty-eyed. “You know, I bet Dex would totally be all over this with you. You guys could be fuck buddies until you get your groove back and you’re ready to move on. He’d go for it. He’ll make you feel good.”
A shudder rolls down my spine at the thought of Dex and I, naked, together. Again. “Can we maybe not talk about me and your brother having sex?”
“Why not? You’ve done it before.” She pops a Dorito out of the bag, wags her perfectly shaped brows, and shoves it in her mouth.
“Once. We’ve done it once. We both agreed it was weird; he’s like my brother.”
“I’m just putting it out there. You already know you can do it and still be friends after.”
“He’s my boss.”
“He was your boss when you fucked the first time, too.”
I throw my hands in the air and walk away from Charlee. She’s relentless when she wants to be, and relentless about me and her brother is not really what I want to deal with right now.
The sex was great though, I’ll give him that. Dex is a giver. And oddly enough, Dex and I have insane chemistry. We always have, which is probably why we hooked up the first night I moved to Toronto to work with him. But in the end, we both knew it was a mistake. Unfortunately, I met Aaron three weeks later.
“I’m totally going into work tomorrow hungover. Might even throw up at the office.” I’ve done it before. Not my proudest moment. But then again, I’ve been in the staff bathroom holding Charlee’s hair back while she’s done the same. “Think he’ll let me take a nap?”
Charlee snorts and taps my nose. “I think Dex will let you get away with anything, just like he always does.”
I’m sure she’s right, considering Dex is the one who caught Aaron cheating, the one who came over and broke the news to me yesterday, the one who held me and let me snot all over him.
Forgoing my nightly routine because I’m riding the hot mess express tonight, Charlee and I collapse into bed. She pulls the covers over us and snuggles into me.
“I’ve so missed spooning with you,” she says with a quiet sigh.
I grab her hand in mine. “I love you.”
“Love you too, Claire Bear. I’m sorry you got your heart broken, but I’m not sorry to see Aaron tossed out on his ass. When you’re ready, you’ll find someone who treats you so good you won’t even know what to do with yourself.”
The exhale I blow out is sad, laced with a whole lot of self-pity, because I’m just not sure I see it happening anymore. “I don’t know how long it’ll take before I’m ready. Hopefully before I’m forty and living with seventeen cats.”
“Well, you’re only twenty-five and you have zero cats right now, so you’re off to a pretty good start. Look at you—you’re killing it!”
I drift to sleep in my best friend’s arms, dreaming about cats, ice cream sandwiches, and punching Aaron in the face.
Or his dick. His small, useless dick.
***
CHAPTER TWO
Claire
“Ladies, what can I get ya?”
The man behind the bar winks, tongue peeking out to lick the corner of his mouth. He’s hot, but I’m trying not to think with that aching spot between my legs tonight. It’s hard, because I’d been drinking for the last two hours at Charlee’s apartment, and I’m definitely half in the bag by now. We just walked in here and I’m already giggling my face off. There’s a glaring sign in my head with the word danger on it, flashing incessantly. Giggles are never a good sign.
