Page 190 of The Holy Grail
“Talking? Or flirting?”
“He flirted with me. I didn’t flirt with him.”
“What was his name?”
“His name?”
“Yes, his name. I want to know the name of the man who was flirting with you.”
Looking slightly embarrassed, Evan answered, “It was John or Sean, I’m not sure.”
“You’re not sure?”
“It was pretty loud in the bar.”
“Okay, so John or Sean flirts with you for a while, and then what? I assume there’s more?”
Evan paused. “I let him buy me a drink.”
“You let him buy you a drink.”
“Yes.”
“I assume, at some point, his flirting with you turned into hitting on you?”
“Yes.”
Over her coffee cup, Jules watched the two men go back and forth, with Evan looking more and more uncomfortable and Malcom looking more and more upset.
“How hard was John or Sean hitting on you, exactly?” Malcom asked, and even though his tone was conversational, it was obviously taking effort to stay that way. “Was it like, ‘Hey, we should go out sometime,’ or more like, ‘Hey, why don’t we go back to my place and fuck’?”
Jules set her cup down, then inched her way over to the island and leaned forward, bracing her forearms on the granite countertop. This male-on-male thing happening was actually kind of turning her on, despite the topic of conversation, but she was helpless to do anything other than get a closer look.
The fact they were both a little battered, was also oddly hot ... which was probably a legitimate red flag.
“It was the latter,” Evan replied. “He wanted to fuck, but I wasn’t interested.”
“You weren’t? Not even a little bit?”
“No. I wasn’t interested when he offered to blow me, either.”
Malcom’s eyes narrowed again. “He offered to suck your cock, too?”
“Yes. He was actually kind of … persistent about it.”
To Jules, this was beginning to feel almost like foreplay, because the sexual energy between the two men was registering around DEFCON 3, at least to her, anyway.
“Was John or Sean attractive?” Malcom wanted to know.
“Yes, he was … although he had terrible taste in cologne.”
“So, shitty cologne aside, were you attracted to John or Sean?”
“I was attracted to the way he made me feel.”
“And how did he make you feel?”
“Like I was wanted.”
