Page 45 of Please Remember

"Too hot?"

"Too hot."

She smiles warmly and adjusts the water to cool it down just enough to allow me to slip my feet back into the plastic covered basin.

"Allie, come on. What was it?"

"It wasn’t much of anything," I admit. "Just our feet tangled up together."

"Who? You and Jax?"

"I assume so."

Laughing, Sage leans back into her massaging chair. "You two really did like getting naked together. It's not that surprising."

"We did?"

"Oh, yeah," she says. "Was Laura right? Have you two not had sex yet?"

I caution a quick glance at the two people working on our feet, the lady working on mine being extra careful with the still-fresh scars on the bottoms. "We've only kissed."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously."

"Who's holding back? You or him?"

The ease with which she asks questions tells me sex was a topic Sage and I discussed often. Nothing seems to be off-limits with her. "Both, really."

"He's holding back?"

"Jax is worried about pushing me too far, so he's kind of doing things at my pace. And I feel confused a lot around him. Like part of me knows I want him, but the other part feels like I don't know him enough yet. I guess I never had an issue wanting him?"

Laughing, she shakes her head and moans as the mechanical knob rubs her shoulder. "No, you'd always find a reason to slip off with him to get it on, no matter where we were. Quick or marathon sex, you didn't care. You even enjoyed it enough you let him film you."

My eyes widen, and I gape at her. "W-what?"

Her body tenses. "I maybe shouldn't have told you that."

My mind takes off. Whenever Jax gets excited and leaves to take care of himself, he leaves the room. He doesn't go to the bathroom, but I've never really paid much attention otherwise. "Oh my God," I gasp. "Thecops would have taken his computer, right? Did they find them? Did they see those videos?"

"Relax," she says, reaching over and grasping my arm. "Jax is a computer whiz. They wouldn't be on the computer. I'm guessing they’re in the cloud somewhere or something like that. Knowing Jax, he’ll have the folder locked down with a password and an encryption key."

"I did this willingly?"

"Oh, yeah. You two would watch them together sometimes. I always asked to see one, but you said no. Not because you were embarrassed, but you didn't want me to see him naked. You had a bit of a jealous streak when it came to Jax."

Okay, so no one else saw it. Although the cops are usually resourceful, I can’t help but be thankful they dropped the ball this time. Just the thought of Parsons seeing me having sex with Jax, willingly recorded or not, makes me sick. "I did?"

"He was your first and your only. You'd gotten lucky and found someone who you enjoyed in bed enough to keep around for the rest of your life. Me? I had to go through many frogs trying to find a prince, and most of them ended up being douche canoes in the end."

"Douche canoe?"

Sage laughs. "We saw it in a movie or something once, and that's what we call all the assholes I end up sleeping with. I guess I'm still out there looking for my Jax when you were lucky enough to find yours at seventeen."

"Would I be jealous of him and Laura?"

"You'd claw her eyes out. I never understood why you let her stick around, especially with how she acted around Jax. Like a lovesick puppy. No one was really surprised she'd conned him into dating her after so many years, but the engagement wasa surprise."

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