Page 60 of Drive Me Wild
Charlotte scoffs and rolls her eyes. “Why not? Is he going to die of cooties?” She turns her head to Lucas and raises a brow. “Is your body disintegrating at my touch?”
“No.” He lets out a throaty chuckle. “And you’re not one to talk, Theo. You’re the king of invading personal space.”
“Am not.”
“Yes, you are,” Blake says, flagging down a server so he can order a drink.
Lucas flicks up a blonde brow and takes a sip of his water. “Hmm. Remember when you broke into my hotel room while I was showering and proceeded to have a conversation with me, completely ignoring the fact that I was ass-naked? Or the time you whipped off your briefs to show me your dick because?—”
“Okay, okay!” I shout, raising my hands. “Sorry for wanting to make sure it wasn’t about to fall off.”
Turns out it was a side effect of taking Viagra for fun. My bad.
“You’re so weird, Theodore.” Charlotte props her chin in her hands. “Maybe I should get a tattoo.”
“You’re not getting a tattoo,” I decide with finality. No way in hell.
“I don’t remember asking you.” She flips me the bird before turning to Lucas and Blake, she says, “Okay. Let’s discuss. What do you guys think about Theo and Josie? He should get over his dumbcareer comes firstbullshit, right?”
She’s dead to me.R.I.P. Nice knowing you, Charlotte!
When neither of them answers, she grimaces and mutters, “Oops. You guys didn’t know, did you?”
I’m too scared to look at my friends, unsure of how they’re going to react. I focus my attention on my drink, watching bubbles float to the top as I slurp it up in large gulps.
“Ha!” Lucas says suddenly, hitting his hands against the table. “Pay up, Hollis.”
Blake throws me a quick eye roll. “You just lost me a grand, arsehole.”
My jaw opens and closes. “What are you talking about?”
“There’s like twelve different bets going on, mate,” he replies with a nonchalant shrug. “You and Jos, huh? Care to fill us in?”
“We’ve been seeing one another,” I reply lamely.
“You’ve mastered the art of over-sharing, Walker,” Blake argues, his brows creasing together. “You tell me how often you bloody fucking manscape. And that’s all you’re going to say about it?”
I shrug. “My manscaping schedule is a perfected science. You should behonoredI shared it with you.”
Lucas drums his fingers against the table. “Dude, we know the first porn video you ever jer?—”
“Can we maybenottalk about that?” Charlotte asks, her nose screwing up in disgust. “Please and thank you.”
“Is that seriously the only insight you’re going to give us?” Blake continues. “Just that you’re seeing one another?”
For the first time in my life, I don’t want to say anything else. What Josie and I have is ours. It’s not that I want to keep her a secret, but I want to keep us private. And quite frankly, I don’t know what to tell them. We’re friends who have sex? We’re not together but act like we are? That, even though we’re both single, I want to strangle any man who even so much as looks her way and don’t care about any other woman but her?
“I lied before.” Charlotte throws her arm around my shoulder. “Thisis the most fun I’ve had all day.”
I shrug her off before daring to make eye contact with my friends. A very pregnant pause ensues where Lucas and Blake have a telepathic conversation, staring at one another without saying a word. I don’t like being on the outside, not sure of whatthey’re thinking, and I let it be known by aggressively clearing my throat.
Blake runs a hand through his messy hair. “Don’t take this the wrong way, but if you’re Josie’s rebound, what happens when she wants a relationship?”
His words send a wave of nausea through me. I may not be Josie’s boyfriend but I’m sure as fuck not just her rebound. Right?
“Who says we’re not both happy with how things are?”
“You may be,” he continues, “but how long does that last? You can’t be in a situationship forever, mate.”
