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“Oh my—I—I’m…” I sputter as my brain is still computing what just happened.
Dex’s hands steady me for a moment, but then they immediately leave my shoulders once we’ve both gained our footing. “It’s fine,” Dex grunts out.
It doesn’t feel fine—I, for one, feel mortified. “I-I—I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to touch—I mean—run into you like that.”
Smooth.
“It’s fine.” Dex’s voice is firm as he takes an extra step back from me. “I was just coming to tell you that your car’s in the garage.”
“Great!” Unlike Mr. Cool, Calm, and Collected here, my tone is all high and squeaky. “I was going to see if I could meet a friend for lunch before we?—”
“Yep, go, that’s fine. We leave for the airport at five,” Dex barks before he turns around and leaves me to die of embarrassment.
Chapter 14
Lucie
“You did what?!” It doesn’t matter that we’re sitting outside in downtown Boston, Jensen’s voice carries across the whole patio.
I sink lower in my chair. “I think I touched it.”
“This is incredible. Please, tell me everything. Leave no inch out.”
I can’t help but laugh. “Okay, well, I didn’t grope it in that much detail. Maybe it was something in his pocket.”
“Ay, dios mío, Lucie!” Jensen snorts. “It never is.”
“Well, shockingly, I’ve never accidentally touched a man’s…equipment before.”
Jensen raises an eyebrow. “Equipment? Really?”
“What do you want me to say? I don’t cuss and you try thinking of non-cringey words for it.” I toss a fry in my mouth as Jensen turns her head up, clearly running all the other options through her head.
“Alright then, just cuss. Ever thought of that?”
I’ve thought of it many times, every time I try to think of a non-cringey word for a man’s penis.
“I’m around kids too much. It just feels weird for me at this point. Unnatural, in a way. I may not know too much about myself, but it’d probably look like Princess Peach cursing. I’d just be forcing it.”
Jensen takes a fry and drowns it in the ranch. “I see your logic,” she mumbles. “But I’ve got to disagree on Princess Peach. You know she’s dying to cuss Mario out every time she gets kidnapped.”
“Well, what princess wouldn’t cuss?”
Jensen quirks an eyebrow, then shrugs. “Cinderella? I don’t know, we got off track. We were talking about you touching your new boss’s dick. Let’s get back to that.”
“I’d really rather not.” I reach for another fry. Am I totally about to ruin the lunch I just ordered by eating way too much of our appetizer? Yep.
“Can you at least tell me if it felt big or not?”
My immediate thought was, of course it freaking felt big, but Dex ismy boss. A boss who clearly has mixed feelings about hiring me. Talking about this feels wrong. Dex is a private guy. I can respect that.
“Jen, let it go.”
“Alright, fine, you prude of a princess. Moving on.” Jensen dusts her hands before reaching for her napkin. “How’s the whole figuring out yourself going?”
I called Jensen to fill her in on my plan the night Dex officially hired me. She’s the only person who knows about it at this point. She is my accountability buddy, making sure I don’t lose myself in my siblings again.
“It kind of just started. Taking this job feels more like the start of my who-knows-how-many step plan.”
