“Years, I’d say.”
Later, we move to the shower and we kiss more there, exploring each other. She moans and purrs like a cat. “Tonight exists in another world, doesn’t it?” she asks softly.
“Yeah, it does. Let’s keep enjoying it, okay?”
Once we’re out of the shower, I bring her to the bed. She is spectacular in all of her naked glory and I need to have her again. I kiss her all over. Her neck, her throat, her breasts, her belly. And then I spread her legs open, and I taste her delicious sweetness, drinking her pleasure on my tongue.
She’s hot and wet and needy. She arches up against me, saying my name, asking for more, moaning and groaning and telling me not to stop.
As if I would.
I send her over the edge again, and then she sits up, straddles me, and grabs another condom. Just like that, she rides me hard, and it’s a gorgeous sight.
This is one of those nights when you don’t want to sleep.
When you spend the entire night fucking, and it’s exactly what an entire night of fucking should be.
It is the best night ever.
The only problem is the morning comes.
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Truly
I squint.
The sun blinds me.
It streams through the window.
Shining a light on last night.
On tangled sheets. Condom wrappers. Clothes strewn on the floor.
Awareness slams into me.
“Malone would kill us,” I say, worry gripping my chest.
“Yeah, he would,” Jason seconds.
Only, that’s not entirely true. I don’t think my brother would hate us. I don’t even know how upset he would be.
But I’m upset. Because I’ve done something I swore I’d never do. I’ve broken a promise to myself and a promise I made to others. I can’t let something like that happen again, no matter how much I want Jason. “Can we agree that last night was amazing?”
“It was incredible.”
“But it can’t happen again,” I say.
He sits, nodding reluctantly. “I agree. It can’t happen again.”
I breathe a sigh of relief. “Good.”
“Did you think I would feel otherwise?”
“No, I’m glad you feel the same. We have to go back to being just friends, Jason.”
“Yeah. This was just a lapse . . . We were away for the day. We weren’t in New York. It was the snow—blame it on the snow.”
I laugh. “We can definitely blame it on the snow. And those fireplaces.”
* * *
We drive back to Manhattan, and it’s as if the night rewinds like a roll of film.
We reenact the drive up, singing along to the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and remaking the fabric of our friendship.
By the time we arrive in New York City, last night is just a memory.
“I think we did it. We’re the textbook case for friends getting caught up in the moment and then returning to the friend zone,” I say.
He offers a hand to high-five. “We are definitely back in the friend zone.” And that’s where we stay for the next six months, until the night he walks into my bar with a proposition.
Epilogue
Spencer
That’s the story of how three different couples found their happily ever afters, and how instant attraction seems to have worked out for all of them.
Enzo and Valerie will be walking down the aisle any day now. Same for Gavin and Savannah. And, well, Jason and Truly . . . they can zip right back into the friend zone, no problem. Right?
You’ll have to stay tuned. Because that proposition Truly mentioned? It involves her attending a couple weddings with the guy who’s “just a friend.”
That should work out fine . . . as long as there's no unfinished business between them, which I expect there is. Enough unfinished business for another chapter in the book of dirty fairy tales.
In fact, I bet there's a nice, long, delicious, twisty, sexy modern romance there.
How it turns out though . . . I won't take bets on that. You’ll have to turn the page and find out what happens when these three couples meet.
Until then, have sweet, dirty dreams.
THE END. FOR NOW.
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