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I arched my back, the shirt pooling uselessly around my neck as his other hand cupped my ass, pulling me firmly against his hard dick.
He straightened, staring down at me with an intensity that sent a rush of adrenaline through my veins. Why hadn’t I wanted to sleep with him again? Stupidity, clearly. There wasn’t a single other good reason.
I slid my hand down his chest, running my fingertips through the faint smattering of hair that led down his stomach. I brushed his skin just above his waistband before running my fingers over the tented fabric.
“Please don’t tease me, Thea,” he whispered into my ear before he nibbled on my ear, pulling a moan from my throat.
I didn’t have a smart reply for that. Instead, I nodded, pushing down his waistband over his ass and down his thighs. I gripped his dick in my hand, stroking him gently. He reached across me, pulling open the drawer of his bedside table and pulling a condom from inside.
“I’ve got that,” I said, plucking the foil from his fingers.
He pushed upright, sweatpants around his knees and a grin on his face as I shimmied out of my underwear and ripped open the package with my teeth.
“So ladylike,” he teased. His palm rested on my inner thigh, thumb distractingly circling closer and closer to me.
“I can be ladylike or we can bang, Benny,” I muttered, poorly attempting to roll the condom onto him. “Which one would you prefer?”
He bent down, pushing my hands off him and kissing me instead. “I think you know my answer.”
* * *
“Wait!” Millie’s exclamation rose above the grinder, music, and general conversation in the coffee shop. Her honey brown eyes widened and an infectious, mildly psychotic smile spread across her face. She dropped her voice when I glanced around the tiny coffeeshop, checking if anyone had overheard our conversation. “You slept with Ben?”
“A couple times, actually,” I admitted, cheeks burning with the recollection of our last night together.
Millie and Nora shared a look that read somewhere between shock and awe, though I suspected Millie wasn’t nearly as shocked as Nora. When I’d insisted on having coffee with my two best friends to tell them something important, though, I don’t think they expected my announcement.
I hadn’t been entirely sure about telling them either.
Benny was my go-to person when I needed to mull. He helped me through a million other decisions and he had this amazing way of guiding me to the answer with more questions. But he couldn’t solve this dilemma.
I was certain of one thing: Ben wanted us to be together. I caught the way his expression faltered when I laughed at speed dating. The way he tensed when I talked about chatting with Warren. I could feel it in the brief pause after we were sweaty and spent, laying together on his bed.
And I felt how much I wanted it too. So, I dipped my toe into the next pool. What if our friends knew?
“How did it happen?” Nora leaned forward on the leather seat, shoes off, feet curled under her and her coffee perched on the armrest. She cupped the coffee in two hands and took a sip.
“That weekend at Mount Pierce. He pretended to be Chase and…” I smiled at the thought of the shared kiss in the bar. “It just felt right.”
“So, you’re dating?” Millie tilted her head.
“No. Not dating, just not not dating.” I pursed my lips, trying to find a word for what we were doing. “Friends with benefits?”
“Best friends with benefits, more like,” Nora laughed.
Millie frowned. “Is that okay, though? Friends with benefits?”
That dampened my mood. Not that my mood had been great in general. With Warren selling my shop and Benny completely agreeable to the snail’s pace I wanted to take our relationship, I should have been euphoric. Instead, I woke up every morning feeling nauseous and on edge. Like the other shoe would drop at any second.
“It’s fine.”
I didn’t actually know. I certainly knew I wanted to sleep with Ben more, but anytime talk turned to a relationship, I clammed up.
I had too much to lose.
“Is it weird that I never saw that coming?” Nora asked Millie.
Millie scoffed. “I don’t think you have a leg to stand on there.”
