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“How she’d feel in that costume. She was focused on making Luke’s mouth drop open, but not the bigger picture. That costume wasn’t her. She would have felt uncomfortable for sure.”
He studied Savannah. She was leaning in, seemingly concentrating on cutting a mouth into the pumpkin in front of her. “I’m gonna think she looks weird in any costume,” he finally said.
Savannah looked up. “Yeah?”
“She’s the most straightforward person I know. Costumes, pretending to be something she isn’t, even for fun, don’t really fit.”
Savannah looked at him for several beats. “You sure that’s the whole reason you didn’t like that one?”
“She was practically falling out of it. Like I said, she would’ve been fiddling with it all night and actin’ like a damned virgin who’s never put on so much as a lace bra.”
“Well sheisa virgin, so I guess that makes sense,” Toby said, absently as he painted something on the front of his pumpkin.
Beau’s attention snapped to the other man. He felt his brows slam together. “What?”
Savannah shook her head. “You shouldn’t have said that.”
Toby looked up. “How does he not know that?” He looked at Beau. “How do you not know that?”
“Becca and I don’t talk about sex,” Beau said flatly.
Fuckinghell, she was avirgin?
But the next second he realized thatof courseshe was a virgin. Who would she have become not-a-virgin with? He would have known about it if it had happened in Autre. Guys from Autre were generally good guys, with a few exceptions—like Remy Hodgin—but they were still guys. They talked. And if someone had gotten in Becca’s pants, he would have heard, even if he wouldn’t have wanted to. He probably would’ve bloodied another guy’s lip too. That one might have been harder to explain.
He supposed he’d assumed she’d taken that step in the two years since she’d been at LSU. But he hadn’t given it a lot of thought. Now that he was, he realized why he hadn’t thought about it much.
He hated the idea. No guy would be good enough for her. Certainly not some college prick named Luke who was probably studying finance or some fucking thing.
“Well, you know Becca,” Toby said, with a shrug. “Sheseemspretty virginal, doesn’t she?”
He had no idea. He wasn’t sure he knew too many virgins actually.
“The problem is, Becca is the type to only sleep with a guy she’s really serious about,” Savannah said. “And that hasn’t happened yet.”
Yep, she was totally that type. Becca was a forever girl.
“So she really does want to date this Luke guy? Not just hook up, right?” Beau asked.
Savannah nodded. “Yeah. She’s not the one-night stand type. At all.”
No, she wasn’t. “That’s not a problem,” Beau muttered.
Her friends all looked over.
“It’s not?” Daniel asked.
“Her waiting to be serious about someone before sleeping with him? Hell no, that’s not a problem. You should all be encouraging that,” Beau said. “What kind of friends are you?”
Their eyes all widened.
“We’resupportiveof whatever journey Becca wants and needs to go on,” Savannah told him.
Beau rolled his eyes. “Fucking some guy because he’s nice to her in science lab and she thinks she’s too old to still have her V-card isn’t a ‘journey’,” Beau told her, using air quotes aroundjourney. Good God. “Journeys require a full tank of gas, a kickass playlist, and at least fifty bucks worth of junk food.”
He saw Toby’s mouth quirk up at the corner, but Savannah was looking huffy. “Look, Beau, I know you and Becca have this blunt-honesty thing going, but I don’t find your rudeness as cute as she does.”
He did not think Becca would describe his style ascute. “If you don’t like it, you know where the door is.”
