Page 26 of Sin City Dark
“No.” She had been careful but still ended up a card-carrying member of the Condom Failure Club.
Katie licked her lips, her eyes still fixed on something behind Jannie. “Yeah, you used him, too. But you can’t tell me you didn’t hope he’dstick around every time he showed up on your doorstep with a hard-on.”
Jannie grimaced. She couldn’t deny it, so she said nothing.
Katie leaned forward, lowering her voice. “Don’t look now, but there’s a hot guy looking this way, and I think I’m about to spontaneously combust.”
“Oh?” Jannie turned her head.
“I said, don’t look!” Katie hissed.
Nick.
He had returned from the men’s room and was now standing at the bar, accepting a lowball from the bartender. Capturing her gaze, he held it, as surely as if he’d trapped her face between his hands. One corner of his mouth tipped up, and he nodded slightly.
Her heart skipped, and heat descended Jannie’s spine to wrap around her middle, settling deep inside her like flowing, molten lava.
Good Lord, her visceral reaction to this man. All it took was a half-smile, and she was done.
Across from her, Katie fixed her with a stare of her own. “Oh.”
To her dismay, Jannie felt a flush creep up her neck and warm her cheeks. “Oh,what?”
“Oh, I’ve never seen you flustered like that.” Katie leaned closer, mischief gleaming in her warm brown eyes. “You know him.”
A statement, not a question.
“I do.” Jannie tore her gaze away from Nick’s and shifted in her seat.
“Wait,thatis your plus-one?”
Jannie nodded.
“You’re fidgeting? What the hell, Jannie? What is that guy to you?”
“A friend.”
Katie scoffed. “There was nothing friendly in the look that passed between you two. Spill. Right now. All of it.”
As succinctly as she could, Jannie updated her friend on the details. When she finished, Katie leaned back, a delighted smile spreading across her face. “This reads like the beginning of a steamy romance novel.”
“What the heck are you talking about?”
“Frog guy from high school undergoes a stunning metamorphosis, emerging as totally lickable prince.”
Nervous laughter escaped Jannie’s lips. “Lickableprince?”
“Hell, yeah. I’d like to lick every inch of that tall hunk of a man. And take my sweet time doing it too.” She lowered her voice conspiratorially. “I wonder if his dick matches the rest of him.”
Jannie’s teeth clenched.
Katie’s eyes widened, and she held up her palms in surrender. “Wow, OK, then! If he’s off limits, I’ll restrain myself.”
“I didn’t say anything.”
“You didn’t have to. It’s all there on your face. What are you going to do about him?”
What indeed. “No idea. He invited me to dinner.”
