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“Whatever you say, Olivia. The guy is only twenty-seven, and he has probably never been with anybody like you before. Don't go breaking his heart.”
“Well, as long as he keeps it light and doesn't try to get serious,” I say, bringing my glass back up to my mouth. “He won't have anything to worry about.”
SIXTEEN - Quinn
“You did what? Say it again, because there is no way I heard you right the first time.”
Rob’s exclamation is filled to the brim with both excitement and utter disbelief. He sits to my left in a plain white tee, with wide eyes and an open mouth that has fallen so far down it threatens to crack the wood of the bar we’re seated at. I understand his response, because I can barely believe it myself, and I'm the one who did it.
“You heard me right. I fucked Olivia,” I reply candidly. “In her office a few hours ago. It happened.”
Seated to my right with a brand new Corona, Marcus shakes his head, seemingly just as dumbfounded as Rob. He's rocking a white tank top, showing the muscles he has been working so hard to build up to help his dating life.
“Un-fucking-believable,” Marcus says. “I spend all day surrounded by stunning women at my job, and not a single one of them has tried to fuck me in their office, let alone the CEO. What you have accomplished, my dear Q, is truly something special. You deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom … well, from someone other than … him.”
“Thank you, sir,” I reply with a proud smile. “But, for real, that wasn't what I expected when I walked in there. I was just trying to make sure she was okay, and the conversation just took a sharp turn. Every time I responded to her in a way she wasn't used to, I could see how it changed her. Her body language gave her away, and once I saw that, something in me just couldn't let it go.”
After I left Olivia’s office, I was entirely too hyped up to just go home like it was a normal day. There was nothing normal about it. Calling out Jon in front of everyone, which led to him trying to attack me and getting his fucking face punched in and subsequently arrested and fired. Then finding Olivia in a sad little trance in her office, and having it lead to us having passionate sex on her desk. If that’s typical, I need a typical day every single day, and my life should be made into a movie. No, this was far from typical, and I had no choice but to get on the phone with my boys and have an emergency meeting at the bar. I was the first to arrive, and I felt like a kid with a juicy secret to tell as I waited for the two of them to show up. I ordered a Crown and Coke and had half of it in my belly before Rob arrived, but I chose to wait for Marcus, too. When the sex isthatgood, the storyhasto be shared, which makes me wonder if Eden and Olivia will be exchanging extra suspicious glances across the room at work tomorrow.
Rob strokes his beard while Marcus chugs his beer, and I sit between the two of them with a satisfied smile pulling my lips up. I can still smell her on my skin, even though I went home andwashed up. I wonder if she can still smell me on her. I hope so. I want the memory of today to drive her wild every time she sees me.
“Alright, I know this might be a bit forward,” Marcus starts. “But you have to tell us how good it was, bro.”
I grin. “Well, I'm not the one to kiss and tell,” I lie, and the boys don't even let me finish before they erupt.
“What?” Rob says, already laughing.
“Q, you are literally the one to kiss and tell,” Marcus says, finishing for Rob as he continues to laugh to himself. “We knew everything about your relationship with Linda.”
“Whatever! You tell us everything about the people you hook up with, too,” I yell at Marcus, who is the world’s biggest hypocrite when it comes to telling sex stories. Rob and I have known every disease Marcus has contracted, who he got it from, and the day each one was cured, so he's one to talk.
“Right,” Marcus says, gesturing with his hands. “But I'm not the one denying it though. Man, quit stalling and tell us about it.”
I let out a sigh and try to figure out exactly which details I want to give these two fools. “Anyway, I can't even lie, bro. It was surreal.”
Rob gasps. “Surreal? Not evenunreal. This man said it wassurreal, so you know that shit was spectacular.”
The three of us laugh together then pause to sip our drinks.
“I’ll keep it real,” I say. “It was even more than I expected it to be. Rob, you and I know that Olivia is gorgeous.”
Rob cuts in to add, “An absolute dime. Yes, please continue.”
“Right, so just based on the way she looks, you assume it’s going to be great. Then, you factor in that she's like a predator stalking around the office with that glare that looks like it could turn you to stone, then you're not sure how it will be because it looks like she might not know how to have a good time. She'sa bit of an enigma. But then, when it all went down, something happened that I never expected.”
“Ooh, do tell,” Marcus says, leaning in closer.
I clear my throat and sit up straight just to get the words out. “It was like she submitted to me.”
Both of my boys frown and tilt their heads like puppies.
“What do you mean?” Rob asks. “Submitted, how?”
“Alright look, both of you know my issue with Linda was that I wasn't getting everything I wanted from her … sexually,” I say.
“Oh, both of us know?” Marcus asks, jokingly. “But you don't kiss and tell, though.”
“Oh my god, you're insufferable,” I reply, shaking my head as I laugh. “Yes, you both know because I do, in fact, kiss and tell. So shut up and let me tell you. I wanted more from Linda. Like, some … kinkier shit, I guess. It’s like I have an itch she couldn't scratch. I was able to be with her, but that itch was always there. But when I was with Olivia, she scratched it.”
