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“Fine.”
“What do you want, Henley? And before you say anything stupid, think very carefully about your reply because I am sick of your childish tantrums.”
His eyes hold mine.
“If you want to have an adult conversation, let’s have it,” I say as I make the coffee and then sit at the kitchen counter. He slouches onto the stool beside me. We sit in awkward silence for a while, and I can tell that my lecture is rolling around in his head.
“When you moved onto the street, it’s possible that we got off on the wrong foot.”
“Possible?”
“Probable,” he agrees.
I sip my coffee as my body goes into fluttering overdrive. Just sitting beside him makes me want to do dirty things. Damn it, why is he so gorgeous? It would be so much easier to be repelled by him if he was hideous.
“Anyway, I just thought . . . Saturday night we could come out to your friends and pretend to”—he pauses—“be together . . . for the story’s sake, one last time. Before we spectacularly break up.”
“What would Vanessa say about that?”
A frown flashes across his face. “Who’s Vanessa?”
“I was outside the other night, and I saw her arrive.”
“Oh.” He thinks for a moment. “Not that it’s any of your business, Vanessa and I have an agreement where neither is bothered by what the other one does.”
“She’s a booty call?”
“She’s a very nice lady”—he smirks—“who does offer her booty.”
“Oh.” I fall silent. What do you even say to that?
“I’m a very sexual person, Juliet. I have needs.” He sips his coffee. “I do what any highly sexed single person does to get by.”
I remember.
After a while he says, “Vanessa won’t be visiting me again.”
“Why?”
“I’m no longer interested in her.”
His eyes drop to my lips, and he gives me the best come-fuck-me look of all time.
I nervously sip my coffee.
“And there lies the problem,” he continues.
I frown as I try to keep up with the conversation.
What problem?
“I like to keep my dating life and my home life separate, and especially with you being you.”
“Me being me? What’s that supposed to mean?”
“Come off it.” He rolls his eyes. “The night we spent together wasn’t exactly an earth-shattering moment.”
It was for me. My heart sinks.
