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That’s news. “What do you mean?”
He plays it off with the nonchalant card. “I told you. I’m waiting to end things. I just have to take care of something.”
“Why not just kick her out if you don’t want to be with her?”
He turns down the next aisle. “How is it you’ve been with Ted all this time and you never felt the need to rub one out or climb him like a tree when you see him? Is it because he’s just not naturally as good-looking as me? I wouldn’t blame you if that were the case.”
“Lucas!”
“Just use it, Allie, and if you don’t like it, I’ll come to get it.”
He sure knows how to flip the conversation. “You promise?”
“Yep. I’ll even do it to you if that would make it better.” He leans in to whisper in my ear, and I shudder under the feel of his words tickling my shoulder. “I don’t mind showing you.”
God, he’s tempting.
“I thought about it last night. You don’t want him, Allie. You think you do. If you did, it wouldn’t be this hard, and you would be with him today, not with me. Yet here we are.”
His fingers slide up the sides of my leg and my mouth goes dry. “Stop comparing yourself to every other woman out there. They’re not you.” There’s a finger that goes just under the hem of my shorts on the inside of my thigh. “You like the idea of your childhood friend, but it’s not what you want.”
“You don’t know what I want.”
He hums in my ear and I am keenly aware of the couple on the other end of the aisle that isn’t looking this way. Lucas’s fingers barely touch the flesh as they go higher. “You want me, Allie. Just admit it. Again.”
The couple on the other end of the aisle walks toward us and Lucas pushes me in front of the cart and puts his hands on the bar, caging me in. “Don’t move.”
He presses himself against the back of me. “Is that your... Lucas, are you—”
“Yes,” he hisses. The couple walks by us, and he pulls me back into him by my hip. “Hello, folks, nice weather we’re having.”
They smile as they pass, and my face burns with embarrassment. He just did that. Inpublic.
“Use it, Allie. I want to know if you like it or if you want something real in there.”
“I don’t think friends talk about these things.”
“Bullshit. They do.”
“You talk to Joel about being horny? Really?”
I feel that hardness soften against me, and Lucas shifts dramatically. “Why the fuck did you guys kiss? And where the hell was I?”
“Truth or dare. Charity dared us to kiss. It wasn’t that great.”
“You picked dare, Allie?”
“I did. Once, and that was it.”
He doesn’t take his hand away from my hip. I probably should feel bad, but I just don’t.
Ted called once last night. No message, nothing. Maybe Lucas has a point.
Maybe Ted was the idea, more so than the reality. I’m tired of the double standard that I didn’t even know existed between us. He has it out for one guy I slept with once, even though I never held his past experiences against him.
Lucas must sense my annoyance. “He doesn’t deserve you, Allie. I know I don’t have a lot of room to speak, but I wouldn’t have done whatever it is he’s done to you that’s clearly upset you today. That’s the difference. He doesn’t appreciate what he has had all this time.”
“And you wouldn’t do what he did?” Because Ted did an intensified version of what he did, but Lucas still did it.
