Page 65 of Imperfections Seduced
He’s shaking his head up and down. “And something else about being from the ‘BK BITCH!’”
He’s laughing at me, and I close my eyes, press my head back into the headboard and cover my face from the embarrassment of it all. I’m never getting drunk again. I don’t know how some people do it. They must really hate themselves to go through this torture.
“Does that help bring back anything that happened last night?”
I take my hands away from my face and look into his smiling eyes. Flashbacks of me throwing up in his bathroom and us kissing come back to me. I swallow and bite the corner of my bottom lip. I’m not sure what to say, I’m embarrassed and in pain, and my cheeks feel warm. I remember what happened. Every single touch. Every single kiss. From himandMatt. I need to get out of here, now. Like leave and join a nunnery. I can’t believe this is happening. I have to talk to Ava. The freaking out I’m doing inside my head must show on my face. Nick’seyebrows pull together, and he’s staring at me with concern.
“Are you okay? You don’t look so good. Are you going to throw up again?”
I look at him and throw the sheets off of me. I do it so fast the blanket flies up in the air, barely missing his face when I jump out of his bed. His bed. The throbbing in my head’s almost forgotten for the moment. I’m more overcome with a severe case of embarrassment and guilt for what I did last night. More so for what I did with Matt. I can’t believe I did that. On a desk, with my legs wide up in the air; my mother would be so proud. Not. Oh my God, I have to get out of here. If I don’t, I’ll probably end up confessing to something I shouldn’t even feel guilty about. He stands up and grabs me by the wrist before I can move past him.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.”
“If nothing’s wrong, then why did you jump out of the bed like you were on fire?”
Nice, Cat, couldn’t you play it cool? Now he thinks something is wrong.
“I remembered I didn’t let anyone know I wasn’t coming home last night, my parents are going to be worried. I need to get home. Where are my clothes?”
“After I took them off in the bathroom I brought them in here, they’re in the chair.”
Letting go of my wrist he doesn’t take his eyes off me. I don’t take my eyes off him either. He knows I remember what happened between us last night. I put my hands on the front of my thighs, and I try to look away but he puts his hand on the side of my face, my eyes go to his lips when he speaks.
“We kissed. You were sick, and I sat with you in thebathroom till you felt better. I helped you take off your clothes and get cleaned up. You were so out of it you fell asleep in my arms. I put you in the tub and washed you off. I dried you off, put my T-shirt on you, and put you in my bed. I couldn’t keep my promise though.”
I look at him a little confused. “What promise was that?”
“I promised I wouldn’t look at you when I helped you get undressed. No man on this earth could be that close to you, feeling your perfectly shaped, sexy as hell body pressed against them, and not look. Besides, if I didn’t, you would have most likely drowned in the water. I think that’s a fair trade off, me looking for you not drowning.”
He gives me a little smile. I smile back at him shyly. “Thank you for not letting me drown in your tub by not keeping your promise to molest me with your eyes while feeling me up.”
“Well, you’re welcome. Next time I think I’ll keep my eyes and my hands to myself and let you drown.”
“No, you won’t.”
“No, I wouldn’t. Get dressed. I’ll make you some coffee before you leave. Don’t worry about your parents. I texted Chris from your phone and told him to tell them you were staying at Ava’s.”
“Thanks.” That’s when my mind goes back to Ava, my partner in crime, enabler of last night. “Where’s Ava, is she here?”
Nick walks toward the door. “I took her home last night. She was so drunk she couldn’t tell the difference between a light pole and a man.”
“Light pole?”
“She tried to make out with a light pole she thought resembled your brother. I would have laughed my ass off if I wasn’t concerned about her drowning in her own vomit.”
Oh gosh, I have to go check on her to make sure she’s okay. “Why did you leave her alone?”
“I didn’t. I called my assistant and sent him over to her house to make sure she was okay. He called me two hours ago before he left her house. She’s fine.”
His phone rings, and he looks over his shoulder then back at me, like he’s not sure if he should answer it. “I have to get that. I’ll try to wrap it up as fast as I can. Don’t leave.”
I turn around when he leaves and head straight for the chair my clothes are on. I have to go. I know he’s going to want to talk about what happened last night. Since we haven’t seen each other since we had sex in the back of his car, he’s going to want to talk about everything. Me, him, Kate—I can’t deal with that now; everything’s coming at me at once. I don’t feel good, and I need to get out of here before he comes back.
Yeah, I know it’s the coward’s way out, leaving without telling him. I can be brave tomorrow when I don’t feel like shit laid out on the street, and I can remember more of what happened last night. I put my clothes on in record time and get out the door. I couldn’t find my damn underwear, so I have to go outside with my bare ass cheeks, and a gust of wind flying up my skirt gives me the cold shaft right up my ass. I probably deserve it, a taste of what’s to come for the list of sins I’ve recently committed.
By the timeI get home, I know for sure this is the beginning of me paying for my sins. I walked five blocks down from Nick’s place, just in case he decided to come looking for me. You would think I would be able to catch a cab in this short skirt and skyscraper heels. No, not me, I’mfreezing my butt off like a fifty-cent street walker. My hair is an absolute mess, along with my makeup. I look like a drag queen gone wrong. The cab drivers were probably afraid they’d get arrested if they picked me up. Even if I could have gotten a cab, I don’t know what happened to my money. I only had ten dollars in my pocket—nowhere near enough to get to Brooklyn.
