Page 92 of Pretty Little Shadow
"Didn't shejustlearn to drive?"
"Yup."
"Did she take one of your sports cars?"
"Mmhm."
"And you just let her go?" Liv shot me a look that said I was insane. "First off, that's a safety hazard. Secondly... what the fuck, Darius? Why would she even panic about you not being in the mood for sex?"
I grimaced.
Only telling part of the story wasn't working.
"I was in the mood. I'm always in the mood. It's more complicated than that," I said.
"Uncomplicate it, then. I swear, you're harder to get information out of than Merrily."
"Rae has never had sex before. No one had ever even given her an orgasm. She doesn't let people close in any way. She's asked me to fuck her a few times when things are getting hot between us, but I haven't come up with a way to make her first time good enough."
Liv abandoned the food on her stove, turning and staring at me.
"The situation is delicate," I said defensively. "And we spent long enough driving around together for me to be mostly confident she's going to be safe in the car."
"You refused to fuck your mate when she directly asked you to, even though you clearly wanted to and were in the mood? And you were surprised when she basically ran away afterward?"
I blinked.
Guess I hadn't really thought about it that way.
Liv let out a slow breath. "This is way above my pay grade." She grabbed her phone off the countertop and pressed a few buttons. It started ringing, and she put it on speaker.
"Hey, Liv." Mer's voice was calm, and upbeat. She'd never sounded that happy before she was with Darke.
"Hey. Dare's here for advice on the Rae situation, and I don't know what to do with him. Your turn."
"I'm not really a neutral enough party to give advice," Mer said apologetically. "I don't want to take sides, and?—"
"Just pretend it's not Dare and Rae. I'll call them... Steve and Karen," Liv put in.
"Fine."
I opened my mouth to tell her what had happened, but Liv beat me to it.
"Karen has never had sex before. Steve is perhaps the most experienced male in all the city," Liv announced.
I groaned.
Merrily coughed to hide a laugh.
"Steve and Karen have been working their way up to full-on penetration, starting with hand stuff and mouth stuff," Liv said. "Karen said she was ready to graduate to the big leagues of full-out cock-in-vag sex, about… five days ago?" She glanced at me.
"Four," I said grudgingly.
"Oh god," Mer muttered.
"Steve, feeling like it wasn't quite special enough, turned her down politely."
"Ohgod," Mer groaned.
