Page 33 of Two for Joy

Holly ignored the tone of his voice and heard what she wanted to hear.

She gave him a dazzling smile. “I’ll be here, same time next week.”

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“I had a threesome once.”

Romeo closed his eyes, trying to shut out Will’s cheerful voice. Chad had cancelled his visit. There was nothing to look forward to, and all Romeo wanted to do was curl up in bed moping to the picture of him on the wall, but Will wasn’t having it.

“Me, can you believe it, a threesome…”

“I feel sorry for them.”

“What was that?”

Romeo got out of bed and went over to the bars. “I said I feel sorry for them.”

“You’re a nasty piece of work, you know that.”

“Oh, I know.”

“But good looking, handsome.”

“I didn’t know you swung that way.”

Will laughed. “I don’t, but even so, I’m not blind. I can see it. You must have some stories to tell.”

“Stories?”

“Of the threesome variety.”

Romeo shrugged. “Maybe…”

“Don’t leave me in suspense, tell me one. A memorable one.”

Romeo turned his back to the bars, then slid down to sit on the ground. He heard Will do the same in his cell. There was nothing else to do, the news was trivial, the cartoons horribly repetitive, that left reminiscing.

“When I was at university, I got a lot of interest, girls, boys. They all kinda blurred together. Sex was a physical release, nothing more.”

“What else is it supposed to be?”

“I dunno, I was looking for something I guess.”

Will tutted. “Love is so overrated.”

“I’m not talking about love. My lecturer saw me getting all this attention, and I knew she liked me more than her other students—

“No way…”

“Yes way. She’d flirt, be very suggestive, wear revealing clothes, short skirts.”

For weeks she’d been dropping hints, winking at him, bending over in front of his desk. But to him, it would be no different having it with her, than the other girls in his class. He couldn’t see any advantage to acting on her lust. Sex was sex, enjoyable, but it didn’t satisfy the monster in his head. It didn’t force him to shut up for a while.

“Your lecturer seduced you. That’s hot, seriously hot.”

“She asked me to stay behind to look over my paper. Everyone left, and I followed her into the office. As soon as she closed the door, she was on me.”

Will banged the bars making Romeo jump. “Christ, Romeo! What was her name?”

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