Page 70 of A Reluctant Boy Toy
I nodded. “You and Taggart are pretty handsome guys too.”
He bit his lip. “We might have taken advantage of that a time or two.”
“I saw her move your eye patch.”
“Sometimes Ari’s such a Mom,” he said irritably. “Now that she has Artemis, it’s only going to get worse.”
“How come you don’t wear a glass eye?”
Stone went still.
“I don’t mean you need one.” I backtracked carefully. “I just wondered why some people wear eye patches and some wear glass eyes.”
“I wear a prosthetic beneath the eye patch, but people flinch away when they look at it. The sight of my scarring with a glass eye in the middle seems to shock them.”
I didn’t comment. What could I say?
“Now you want to see, don’t you?”
“I didn’t say that.”
“Didn’t you ask because you were curious about my scars? About what could be under the patch? I’ll give you a hint. It’s not a portal to a lost world.”
“Jesus. I was only curious whether you chose to wear a patch instead of a glass eye, and why that might be.”
“But you’re not at all curious to see it,” he said stiffly.
“Nope.”
“Not a bit?” he chided.
“Not even alittlebit,” I said. “Show me if you want. If you don’t, I couldn’t care less.”
“I don’t,” he growled. “That’s why I wear the eye patch.”
“Fine,” I said. “But I think it’s because you know the eye patch makes you look super hot.”
With a laugh, he turned and picked up the empty tray.
“Hey, Stone?” I stopped him. “I have a request. You can say no.”
Probably expecting another ambush, he asked, “What is it?”
“Do you think you could help me take a shower?”
“Of course.” He seemed to hesitate. “Back in a minute. I have to put these in the kitchen.”
He hurried from the bedroom, his footsteps brisk as he went down the hall.
“What was that?” Molly stepped inside the room after he left. “What’d you do to him?”
“I asked if he’d help me shower.”
She coughed into her hand. “I can help you. I’ve seen you naked a hundred—”
“Shhh.He’ll hear you.”
“What? Why are we whispering?”
