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She set the bread slice down in her bowl of stew. “Oh. Well. I... I don’t know that you actually want to hear this.”
“I do, Frankie. As you pointed out, I’m your friend. I’m your friend, why the hell would I not want to hear about it?”
She was silent for a moment, and he could swear he saw wheels turning behind her eyes. She picked up her slice of bread again and held it poised in front of her mouth.
“He broke up with me because I can’t come during sex.” Then she took an aggressive bite out of the bread and chewed slowly.
CHAPTER FOUR
WELL,THATHADHAPPENED.
She’d said it.
But she felt like something was brewing. Felt like he waspushingher.
She needed to do something decisive, say something decisive. She’d been roiling with upset all day.
Coming to terms with the fact that her life had to change after this. That she needed to make a clean break from Walker at some point. That she had to accept the fact that this part of her life was coming to an end.
Carter and Sky would always matter to her. But she wasn’t their nanny anymore. Walker was right about that. The fact that she felt cut up about it had to do with her unresolved feelings for him. So in that moment, she decided to just throw the bomb into the middle of the table and see what happened.
Somethingdidhappen. Walker fully choked on his drink.
“Sorry,” she said, keeping her tone bland. “Was that too much information for you?”
“Fuck,”he said.
The word reverberated through her and she did her best not to react to it.
“Sorry. I didn’t know that you had a delicate constitution. I just had to have someone look me in the face and tell me that my sexual performance fell so far short of what he wanted, that he could no longer be with me. I know why I’m triggered by it. I just didn’t expect you to be.”
“It’s a bit...”
“Too much information?” He looked like he was seriously thinking about that.
“No. But... I’m sorry, I feel like you’re telling me this guy just broke up with you because he’s shitty in bed.”
“It’s not just him. Unfortunately.”
Well, if this was supposed to be a seduction, she was maybe ruining it by telling him what a bad lay she was.
“What do you mean?” he asked.
“He’s not the only guy I’ve ever slept with. I didn’t have an orgasm with the other guy either. At a certain point, you do have to accept that maybe youarethe problem. I figured maybe if I was still...you know, it’s not like Iignoredhim. Sexually.”
Walker looked a little bit like he’d been hit upside the head with a hammer.
“Well,” she said. “You asked.”
“I did,” he confirmed.
“You asked and I’m telling you. Apparently, I’m a great nanny, I’d say a decent housekeeper, but a starfish in bed.” She held her arms out limply, demonstrating the starfish pose.
He cleared his throat. “I’m not sure if this is something we should...be talking about.”
“Why not?”
He didn’t have a good answer for that, she could see. He looked a little bit tortured. And thatactuallyoffended her. He was acting like a father figure or something. But he had never been a father figure for her. Was that how he saw her? Was she like another child that lived in his house?
