Page 55 of Bitten By Desire
I sighed. “Fine.” I’d tell her part of it. “Theo was incredibly rude the whole evening. He asked me very inappropriate questions that had nothing to do with the job. It was practically an inquisition about my relationship with Bennett. He thinks Bennett is dangerous or something. And a liar. And that I shouldn’t see him anymore.”
“So they do know each other?”
“I have no idea. They at least knowofeach other. But obviously I’m not going to listen to that asshole. Because he’s the dangerous one. And the liar. And an asshole.”
“Hmm,” she said as we made our way into the frozen popsicle aisle.
“Hmm what?”
“Well, you called him an asshole twice.”
“Yeah, he’s a double asshole.”
She laughed. “Well, from the outside looking in, it seems like maybe you have a little crush on Theo Gold.”
I just stared at her. “Of course I have a little, dumb crush on Theo Gold! Because he’s Callum Walsh and I’ve been lusting over him for ten freaking years! I neverwould have let him kiss me last night if I didn’t have a stupid crush. And he can take his job offer and shove it up his double asshole.”
She smiled. “That last part didn’t make any sense. But…I knew it!”
Damn it, had I said all that out loud?
“So…how did it compare to kissing Bennett?”
“It didn’t at all compare. It was like kissing the devil.” Saying it out loud made me swallow hard. It had felt like kissing the devil. Completely sinful. And wrong. But somehow oh so right.
Zoey laughed as she grabbed her popsicles. “That sounds incredibly hot.”
I hated this aisle. It was cold like Theo Gold. I crossed my arms in front of my chest.
“Well, I’m all for this,” she said. “Now you have two guys trying to get you to stay in town. I say date both. Besides, you obviously can’t decide which one you want to be with until you’re intimate with both of them.”
I felt my cheeks turning red.
“Girl, did you already bang Theo?”
“No! No,” I said a little quieter. “He…he sexually harassed me in the workplace.”
She laughed. “Hot. Did you bang on his desk or something?”
“No. It was just hand stuff. God, what am I doing? It was all a mistake. I really like Bennett. Just pretend you didn’t hear any of that. I didn’t mean to tell you.”
“You were always going to tell me. Now…do you think they have any long goat cheese logs here?”
“I don’t think long is how you’re supposed to describe goat cheese. It’s probably a weight thing. Like eight ounces versus four.”
“No, I order everything by length. I’ll go ask the sales clerk while you go to the bank for your date. Maybe you’ll let Bennett sexual harass you inhisworkplace.”
“That’s not funny.”
“I know…it’s just sexy. He has a private office. Not that you need privacy. You prefer the whole town to see you, right? I heard someone call you Ferris wheel girl in aisle three.”
What?I hadn’t heard anyone say that. “Really…no one said that, right?” I didn’t want that to be my new nickname.
She shrugged.
“I hate you.”
Zoey smiled. “You really don’t.”
