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She smiles as she recalls the bawdy talk.I’d like to wrap that thing around his wrists and ride his face. Do you think he’d appreciate that?“That’s true.”
“Did you do it?” I ask.
She pauses, her whole body going tense. “That’s the thing.”
“What thing?”
She looks around the living room, checking for possible eyewitnesses. There’s no one. Only leather furniture and framed art. “We haven’t.”
“You haven’t…?”
She checks the space again, taking in the aura of quiet. Which is totally unnecessary. Except for Dad’s parties, the place isalwaysquiet.
Mom was the one who brought the noise. Who loved music and film and art and light.
Still, Lexi checks the surroundings one more time. “We haven’t had sex.”
“You…what?” My jaw drops halfway to the floor. If someone gave me a million dollars and a thousand years to come up with a guess for why Lexi is worried about her relationship, I would never have picked that.
Lexi is not a woman who waits. Lexi goes after exactly what she wants, with exactly who she wants, whenever she wants. Before she met Jake, Lexi exclusively dated guys on a fling-to-fling basis.
I can’t believe she’s gone six months without sex, let alone six months without sleeping with the guy she’s dating. The guy she really, really wants.
Is she ill?
“I see it on your face.” She hides behind her hands. “I’m a freak.”
“No, you aren’t. Lots of people wait,” I say.
“What the hell am I doing?” She shakes her head, hands and all. “He wanted to take it slow, and I thought he meant a few weeks. I didn’t want to be one of those guys, you know?”
“What guys?”
“The guys who dump women because they won’t put out.”
“You’re not a guy,” I say.
“The principle applies!” She drops her hands. “Do you think it’s all some scheme? To entice me with the promise of sexual chemistry and string me along until I’m desperate to make some sort of commitment?”
“Why would he do that?”
“Women do it.”
“What women?” I ask.
“Charlotte did it onSex and the City. And look how that worked out!”
“She left the guy because he was impotent.”
Her stare screamsobviously.
“Are you impotent?”
“Oh my God… Isheimpotent?” she asks, horrified, as if she’d never considered it until now. “What if it’s because he’s impotent?”
Hmm…it’s a fair point. “There are other options.”
“What other options?”
