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“What’s up with you Mx?” Freddy asks, glaring at me.
“What?” I ask.
“You look like you got the world’s best dicking,” he says, and Julian snorts.
“No. Nothing like that,” I reply.
But maybe in the near future.
I copy Everett’s number to my messaging app and type a message to him.
Hey Everett. Thanks for your message. I was taken aback a bit, but it’s fine. You being so sweet makes up for it.
The reply comes in seconds.
You’re welcome. And call me Ev.
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Everett
“So… what did you say to them?” Carter asks me once we’re home.
He’s been in a mood since he bumped into Tru. And it took forever to get him to recount what happened between them before Tru ran off on him.
I close the apartment door and put the pizzas on the table.
“I was just nice to them. Unlike you,” I say. I walk over to the fridge to grab two beers, and by the time I return to the table, Carter has taken his box to sit at the couch in front of the TV.
So I pick up my box and sit on the other side.
“I wasn’t being rude. I was just being professional,” he says.
“Professional? They’ve seen your dick. You were inside them. There’s being professional, and being rude, and guess which one you were?”
Carter shakes his head and bites his pizza, mumbling a “whatever.”
“I like my job. And I’d like to keep it,” he says.
“You know that’s not what this is about. I’m not saying you have to have sex with them again, but there’s no need to be a dick with them, either. Just grow up, accept you’ve fucked a student, and get over it,” I tell him just as my phone vibrates with a text message from Tru.
The fact that they thank me for being so sweet makes my heart do some crazy somersaults in my chest, and I can’t help but smile.
I reply to them and put my phone down.
“Who’s that?” Carter asks.
I could lie to him, but there’s absolutely no reason to, so I don’t.
“Tru,” I say.
Carter grimaces and puts his box down.
“You cannot be serious. They’re your student, Ev. Don’t tell me you’re gonna hook up with them again.”
I shrug.
“Why do you care? You said I’m free to do so if I want,” I say. “And I want, so…”
