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“Fine.” She lowers her voice to a whisper. “Tell me about the sex.”
I inhale a preparatory breath, knowing she’s not going to readily accept my answer. “We didn’t have sex.”
“This is a crime against humanity. Okay, so maybe you didn’t do everything, but did you dosomething?”
My mind conjures images of Hayden and the feel of his hands on my skin… his fingers inside me. Instantly, my sex clenches, wanting fulfillment. My breathing thins and my blush returns.
“I knew it!” When I frown at Harper’s loud response, she brings her voice back down to a whisper. “I knew it! What did he do exactly?”
“Perv much?”
“Perv a lot. Why are you surprised by this?”
I lean close, unwilling to let anyone overhear what I’m about to say. “He fingered me, and I came so hard that I nearly collapsed.”
“Oh shit.”
I nod. “But that’s all that happened. I swear.”
“Why didn’t you do more?”
Because Hayden found out I was drugged and possibly raped, and lost his fucking mind.
“Because he didn’t want to take advantage of me while I was drunk,” I say.
“A lawyer with morals. That’s hot in a way I didn’t realize until now.”
“So, tell me about you.”
Harper launches into her story which features a lot of sex and things I didn’t even consider or know were possible. By the end I am blushing furiously and nearly run into the kitchen to put my head in the freezer. I don’t have to because my friend has pity on me and changes the subject.
“Even though we both had a lot of fun last night, something’s weighing on you,” she says. “I can see it in your face. Did the stalker bother you again?” When I shake my head, she purses her lips. “Then what?”
“Hayden wants me to move in with him.”
I lean back and wait for the fireworks show that is Harper Flynn.
“Interesting,” she says slowly.
“That’s it? Someone I barely know asks me to move in with him, and that’s all you have to say?”
“Give me a minute. I’m thinking.”
I smooth the material of my blouse, needing an outlet for the bristling energy coursing through me. “He said it was to protect me from my stalker, which is really nice, but I hardly know Hayden.”
“You’ve known him longer than you think.”
When I frown at her, she winks at me and walks over to Alex to hand him a freshly made cappuccino. By the time she returns to my side, I’m tapping my fingers on my thigh with impatience.
“You told me he was an attorney when he first walked in here,” she explains. “How else would you know that if you hadn’t met him? We haven’t talked about the things that went on with your dad, and I’m cool with that, but I have a feeling you and Mr. finger-me-like-a-god Bennett had a moment at some point. Or else he wouldn’t act the way he does around you. That might not be enough of a reason to move in with the guy, but having a stalker changes everything. The devil you know type of thing.”
My forehead scrunches with the churning of my thoughts. “I think I need a cake pop.”
Harper takes one from the display case and shoves a chocolate cake pop into my hands. “Here, you look like you need this. Sugar helps the brain, right?”
I nod. My mind drifts back to the day Hayden first walked into the coffee shop, returning like a familiar stranger from the shadows of my past. I had known him, but he treated me very differently back then. Especially when I testified at court.
That didn’t stop me from being attracted to him.
