Page 48 of Friends With Benefits

“And…”

“Um…football?”

“Nope. Soccer.”

“Oh, yes, yes, I should have known that.” Hailey thumped a fist into the couch cushion with a laugh.

Kerri continued to answer the questions in her head as if they were about Mitch, pretty sure she was getting them all right. Then Melanie asked, “What’s his favorite sexual position?”

Everyone screamed with laughter and Hailey turned pink. “I can’t answer that!”

“Oh, come on!”

She sighed and grinned. “Okay, he likes it when I’m on top.” Then she frowned. “Did you really ask him that?”

Melanie laughed. “Oh, yeah. And you’re right!”

“Oooh, Hailey,” the girls teased. Kerri laughed too, but she didn’t know what Mitch’s favorite position was—they hadn’t even tried very many. He seemed to like her on top, her underneath… She became very warm and tried to focus her attention back on the party.

The gifts, in keeping with the theme of the evening, ranged from gorgeous silk lingerie, to a naughty black merry widow, to some flavored massage oils and chocolate body paint.

“You guys are going to have so much fun on your honeymoon,” Melanie said as everyone oohed and aahed over the gifts, throwing in the odd crude joke as well.

Finally Melanie started the DVD she had chosen.

“I’m not sure I’m up for any hard core porn,” Hailey warned as they all got comfortable.

“Not to worry,” Melanie assured her. “I specifically asked for something for women. They actually have a whole section of women’s porn at the store.”

“Oh, God, Mel, weren’t you embarrassed?”

She grinned. “Nah. I explained what it was for and the lady there was very helpful. The movie is apparently like those romance novels you like to read, Hailey.”

“Oh, no!” Laurel, the third bridesmaid, cried. “I want to see some skin!”

“Oh, there’ll be skin, all right.”

The movie started and to everyone’s relief, including Kerri, it wasn’t hard core. It actually had a story, and yes, it was a romance, and the sex, while explicit, was totally part of the story. In fact, it was hot, hot, hot, including a little threesome that was disturbingly sexy.

Kerri grew warm and wet watching the movie, and squeezed her thighs together discreetly. As the movie continued, she got more and more turned on. She was going to have to go see Mitch tonight. He probably wouldn’t mind. By the time the movie ended, it was clear all the other girls were feeling equally as aroused.

“No fair,” Laurel complained. “Melanie’s husband is upstairs. I’m betting he gets lucky tonight. Hailey has Miguel to go home to. Everyone has someone except me and Kerri. We’re going to be all lonely and frustrated tonight.”

Without thinking, Kerri blurted out, “Not me.”

They all looked at her with surprise and she smiled weakly.

Chapter Twenty

“Kerri!?” Hailey and Melanie said together. “You have some guy stashed at home?”

“Is it Liam?”

She shook her head. “No.” She regretted opening her mouth. “Never mind.”

Well, there was no way any of them were taking that, they were all over her to tell what she’d meant, and finally she confessed what had happened between her and Mitch.

“I knew it!” Hailey said. “You two were meant to be together.”

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