Chapter 16 #2
“You worry too much, Chadwick. I think flings might be my new favorite thing. I loved that. I don’t know why I’ve waited so long to just have a no-strings-attached orgasm. I’ve been missing out.”
He barked out a laugh. “Slow down there, Princess. Let’s see how you feel after you sleep on it, and if you want to unzip my pants tomorrow after what happened tonight, you won’t even need to ask.”
“Yeah? You promise.”
“Yep.” He kissed my forehead and pushed up from the bed. “I’m going to go take a very cold shower and get some sleep.”
I sat forward and watched as he grabbed his shoes and his suit jacket.
I pushed to my feet and followed him to the door. “Thanks for icing my face and giving me the best orgasm of my life.”
“It’s a gift.” He shrugged.
I laughed as he tugged the door open and winked at me. “Let’s be ready to go by 7 a.m. Meet me in the hallway.”
“Deal. See you tomorrow.”
The door closed, and I fell against it, closing my eyes as I processed all that had happened tonight.
I made my way to the bathroom and called Lulu, clicking the button for speakerphone as I washed my face and filled her in on all that had happened.
“In all the years that we’ve been friends, I’ve never been surprised by anything you’ve told me.” She laughed. “You’re usually so predictable in the best way. But this… this is the best phone call I’ve ever received from you.”
“Come on. I dated a rocker who liked to eat gummies and have sex. That was a detour for me.”
“Please. You didn’t eat the gummies, and the sex was pretty vanilla.
He just liked to stay in bed, and that shocked you.
But this, this is the makings of great reality TV.
I mean, you’ve got the drunk family friend who elbowed you in the face.
The client dinner was a disaster, and then you went back to your room to ice your face and dry-hump your mentor.
” She was laughing hysterically now. “Welcome to being twenty-five and having some fun, Hen! I’m so proud of you. ”
“Thank you. I know it takes a lot to shock you, and I’m happy I could do that for you. You said that you had something to tell me.”
“Well, my news is lame now, next to yours.”
“Tell me, and I’ll decide.” I turned on the water in the tub because I needed to soak for a while and calm myself down from the excitement of the evening.
“Remember the fancy spa in the city that I told you about?”
“Yes. The one with the very good-looking male masseuse with spectacular hands?”
“That’s the one. Hector. He has hands like a Roman god.”
My head fell back in a fit of giggles. “Yes. I remember him now.”
“Well, I had dinner with Elaine Wicker, the woman who lives in my building in 2B. I told you that she asked me to go have cocktails and dinner with her.”
“Oh, yes. Elaine. The supermodel who also waits tables at the diner on the corner.”
“Exactly. Get this. She goes to the same spa. She calls it the ‘happy endings’ spa. Drum roll, please.” She paused for dramatic effect and made the sound of a drum by pounding on something.
“Apparently, Hector does a whole lot more with his hands to Elaine. I couldn’t believe it when she told me. He gave her a happy ending.”
I gasped and laughed at the same time. “So, are you freaked out now that you know this?”
“Well, I mean, I guess I’m a weird mix of freaked out and offended. He’s never made a move on me. I’ve been naked under that sheet dozens of times, yet all he does is massage me with those manly hands. But he’s doing naughty things to Elaine?”
I shook my head in disbelief as I turned the water off and got undressed. “You would lose your shit if he touched you inappropriately, and you know it. He’d end up in the hospital after you karate-chopped him in the throat. You’ve taken more self-defense classes than anyone I know.”
“Hey, a woman can never be too safe. And yes, I would throat-punch Hector if he’d touched me without permission. But I’m also wondering why he hasn’t tried, you know?”
“You’re insane,” I said, placing the phone on the side of the tub and slipping beneath the water. “Imagine if the media got hold of that story, and you were accused of sexual acts at the spa. Your dad would lose his shit.”
“Yeah, that would put him over the edge. He told me to keep my dating antics out of the press and find myself a normal man. The last thing I need is to be getting orgasms at the spa.”
“Well, I’m getting them after work dinners, so there is that.”
“You’re a naughty girl, Henley Holloway. Maybe I’ve corrupted you after all these years.”
“Maybe.”
“So, you want to have a fling with this guy, huh?”
“I think I do. Look at us. I want to have sex with my coworker, and you need to find yourself a respectable boyfriend. This is so not us.” I let my head rest on the back of the tub.
“I think I need a fling. I need something. I’m in a rut,” she said.
“No more calls from unknown numbers?”
“I get them every day. I just don’t answer.
And he leaves these voice messages where he sounds distraught.
But thankfully, he’s on tour, so he won’t be showing up at my door.
The man is outrageous. He wants to bang other women on the road and then come back to me and act like it didn’t happen?
” she said. “I will never forgive him for what he’s done and the humiliation he’s caused me and my family. ”
“Nor should you. You deserve much better than a has-been rock star.”
“He just sold out a stadium that holds sixty thousand people. He’s not really a has-been, but thanks, bestie.”
“Well, he lost you, and that makes him a dumbass. That’s worse than being a has-been.”
“I like this new side of you, Henley Holloway,” she said.
“What side is that?”
“The one where you have a casual office hookup fueled by a dirty talker who gives you fabulous orgasms.” She chuckled, her voice all tease. “Are you smoking a cigarette right now?”
“No. I’m taking a bath. Don’t make me regret telling you what happened.”
“You better keep me posted. I hope you make a move tomorrow.”
“I’m hanging up,” I said over my laughter.
“Love you big.”
“Love you bigger.”
“Make a move on the hot lawyer tomorrow!” she shouted, just as I ended the call.
I closed my eyes and sighed.
Making a move on my coworker was not really my style.
But when it came to Easton Chadwick, I was willing to break a few rules.