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“What? You brought him up!”
“Yeah, but then you told me where helives. And now I’m going to be thinking about it. And I really shouldn’t be thinking about howvery closeto your bed he is. Howeasyit would be for you to roll over and get him.” His voice goes even lower, all traces of that joking tone gone. “What you’d do with him.”
I swallow, hard. My belly is tight. I should change the subject, but my mind is suddenly empty of anything but Rux thinking about me like that. God, it’s making me hot.
“Fuck, just this once… and I won’t ask again… after I left,did you?”
I open my mouth, but Rux cuts me off with a sharp, “No! Don’t tell me. Don’t tell me. I don’t want to know. Double fuck, you know I want to know. But Sunshine, I think we’re in agreement it’s better I don’t, right?”
“Rux?”
“Cammy.” He sounds tortured. And I feel that one word all the way through me.
“Bob and I are on a break,” I say, even though I know it’s a mistake.
Another lower groan. “Tell me why.”
“I think you know why.”
His voice is so low, the rough scrape of it is almost enough to get metherewithout any assist at all. “Say it.”
I’m playing with fire. But I can’t stop myself from giving him the truth. “Because after what happened with us, it wouldn’t be enough. And I’m not ready to let go of what we did yet.”
Chapter 11
Rux
Ithought about going home. Told myself I could use the rest after flying out of New York hours before dawn. That I should wait until Matty gets home from school and go over then. But somehow, I end up back at Cammy’s place, a sort of electric charge running beneath my skin as I wait for her to open the door.
And yeah, I’m being weird with the waiting thing. Not my style. I’ve got a key and I’m not shy about using it. But today, knocking seems like the way to go just in caseshe’s feeling weird or embarrassed or any of the other shit I hope to hell she isn’t feeling.
That conversation last night wasn’t what it should have been.
Yeah, we joked and caught up, but just the sound of her voice had me half hard. And that wasbeforeI broke every rule I’d set for myself and started working for details I knew better than to think were mine.
Like about Bob.
So much for the road trip giving me time to get back on track. I’m not sure my brain will ever work right around this girl again.
Not that I’ll let on.
No way. We’re friends. The best kind. And I’m not going to let a few errant boners get in the way of something that means more to me than just about anything on this planet.
So while I might be dying thinking about what her panties say today… I won’t ask.
I won’t.
The door opens and the breath I’ve been holding whooshes out.That smile.
“Knocking?” she asks, leaning into the open door, those lush lips set at a slant that—man, yeah—really works for me.
I try with the whole “eyes up here” business, but damn, she’s wearing this cropped little sweater with jeans, and the way she’s standing leaves about an inch of bare skin exposed on one side.
“Rux?”
My eyes snap up and guilt swamps me.
Friends, fucker.
