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“She was nowhere near in love with him, and the fact you think she was tells me you’re deeper in denial than I thought.”
“Jesus, Olivia thinks I’m in denial over Penny, and now you think I’m in denial over her and Jensen.What the fuck are you talking about?”
“For an intelligent guy, you’re fucking clueless when it comes to Olivia.You’re losing your shit over her dancing with another guy becauseyouwant to be the guy she dances with.”
“I can dance with Liv anytime I want.”
He shakes his head like he’s dealing with an idiot.“Yeah, you keep telling yourself that, Callan.One day, you’ll wake up and she’ll be married and you’ll be left wondering why the fuck you didn’t wake up to yourself sooner.”Sasha waves at him to come and dance.With one last glance at me, he says, “I hope you pull your head out of your ass soon.You and Liv are meant to be together.”
He strides toward the girls leaving me with that bomb.
The fuck?
Liv and I are friends and that’s worth a hell of a lot more to me than a romantic relationship.I will go to the ends of the earth to protect our friendship, and while my fucking brain seems intent on imagining doing filthy things to her, there is no way I’ll risk what we have for sex.
I watch her with Peter for another moment before deciding he has to go.I don’t trust him.If given half a chance, he’ll rip Liv’s heart out and trash it, and I won’t have that.
Olivia blesses me with a smile when I reach her.It settles in my bones like all her smiles do.“Callan,” she gushes and I grin at her loose lips.
“You got into the whiskey, Ace?”
Her smile grows as she extricates herself from Peter who’s glaring at me.“I blame Sasha.All I said was that it was time we had a drink.She’s the one who insisted on lots of drinks.”
I catch her when she stumbles, pulling her into my arms.“Why do I find that hard to believe?”
She pouts.“You think I’m the bad influence?”
“I think you’re both the bad influence when you get together.”
Peter, who’s long forgotten, interrupts.“Well, I’ll just go, shall I?”
Fuck, he’s a whiny bastard.
I look at him.“Sounds like a great fucking plan.”
Olivia smacks me playfully, bringing all my attention back to her.“That was mean.”
I bend my mouth to her ear.“Yeah, and I don’t regret any of it.He’s an asshole you’re better off without.”
She presses her body hard against mine and I have to contain my groan of approval.“See, you get it.I’m better off without a guy right now.I don’t know why Sasha has so much trouble believing that.”
The very last thing I want to be thinking about is Olivia with another guy, but I’m unable to stop myself from saying, “What’s really going on there, Ace?What’s with the abstinence?”
She loops her hands around my neck as we sway to the music.“Sex is bad.”
“I beg to differ.”
She giggles.“That came out wrong.God, I’m drunk.”
She’s fucking cute when she’s like this.“Yeah, you are.What did you mean?”
She lets out a sigh.“I’m tired of bad sex.I’m just gonna stick to giving myself orgasms for a while.”
Christ.
That’s material I don’t need.
“You’ve never told me you were having bad sex.With Jensen do you mean?”Olivia has never given even a hint that she was unhappy with her sex life.
