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She swallowed and smiled tentatively. “I’ve just never done anything like…” she waved a hand. “You know.” She lifted and dropped her eyebrows significantly. “And he was part of it with us.”
Liam felt a flare of pain in his chest. Was he not enough for her?
It faded quickly at seeing the distress on Calla’s face, though. “Do you still want him?” His tone was more even than he’d expected it to be.
Calla glanced down again before taking a deep breath and meeting his eyes again. “I don’t really know him. But I didn’t know you either. And then… that night.” She pursed her lips and shook her head. “It felt, I don’t know…” she looked around like she was trying to find the right word. “Important. Like all three of us were connecting in this really special way.” She turned her head to look out at the dark night. “That’s probably stupid and naïve. I don’t know what I’m talking about.”
“Don’t say that.” Liam’s arms tightened around her. “Don’t doubt your instincts.” It might not be his favorite thing to hear that she was still thinking about Mack, but here she was, telling him up front. Being real with him. No matter what she was feeling, it was right there on her face.
“What did you think about that night?” she asked. “Did you like it when he… When you two were…”
“Sure,” Liam said, then he felt Calla stiffen at his clipped tone.
“I’m sorry,” she said. “I shouldn’t have ask—”
“It wasn’t the first time.” Liam took her hands so she didn’t feel like he was cutting off her line of questions. He wasn’t used to being open with people, but if she could do it, so could he. Well, he could try, anyway. “I’ve done things like that before. With both a man and a woman.”
“Oh.” Her eyes widened as she looked up at him. “Like, both at the same time or, you know,” her cheeks went pink.
Jaysus she was cute. So innocent. He smiled, enjoying her reactions. “Both. Together and individually. Does that shock you?”
“I don’t know,” she blinked. “So are you, what do they call it? Bisexual?”
Liam shrugged. “I don’t put a label on it. I usually say I’m a trysexual.”
Her brow furrowed.
“As in, I’ll try anything once.”
She chortled out a short laugh at that but then sobered again. “Do you like one better than the other?”
Liam traced his fingers along the back of her neck underneath her hair, liking the way she shivered at his touch.
“I’ve slept with more women than men. But I didn’t really expand me horizons until college.”
She propped her hands underneath her chin as she looked up at him. “So how do you know?”
“Know what?”
“How do you know if you’re attracted to someone? Like, what makes the difference between a guy or girl you’re just friends with and someone you want to, you know, sleep with?”
Liam laughed. “There’s no science to it. I’m either attracted to someone or not.”
She tilted her head. “So how long have you been attracted to Mack?”
Liam choked. “I’m not,” he hurried to say as soon as he could speak again. “Not to him.”
“Oh.” She frowned. “But I thought you just said—” She squinted her eyes at him. “And with how the two of you were—”
“I was just going with the situation as it presented itself.” He shook his head so violently Calla had to pull back. “But Jaysus, I’m not attracted to that wanker.”
“Oh.” She sounded disappointed.
Shite. Why? Did she want a repeat of what happened in the hotel room?
Liam had been doing his best to block it from his memory. When he replayed that night, he only focused on the time after he got Calla into the shower.
“I just…” she trailed off again before continuing, her eyebrows scrunched, “I think he’s really lonely. And I know what that’s like. Feeling like you’re all alone in the world.” She shook her head, her eyes going distant again.
