Page 60 of The Light to My Darkness (The Light to My Darkness 1)

"Wait, you've slept with Matt?"

"Hasn't everyone?"

"Umm...obviously not," Hailey said. "We were all dating someone when we met him."

"Seriously. None of you have slept with Matt? I kind of just assumed you all had."

Bee laughed. "Of course I haven't slept with him. I'm marrying his brother."

"And I'm married to your brother," I said.

"Ditto." Daphne tapped her teacup against mine.

"But it's Matt," Jen protested. "How could you guys not sleep with Matt before you got married? It's like a rite of passage."

"Because Rob's a perfect ten in bed," Daphne said.

"And so is James," I added.

"Stop." Jen put her hands over her ears. "Those are my brothers that you're talking about."

Daphne and I both laughed.

"Can we go back to talking about you sleeping with Matt, though?" I asked. "When did you do it? Was it just once?"

"No, a bunch of times." Jen waved her hand dismissively.

"Isn't there like a seven year age difference there?" Daphne asked.

"Age is just a number," I said.

"Mhm, Penny." Jen rolled her eyes. "We all know that you're much too young for my brother. We get it."

I shrugged. "Sorry I brought it up. Tell us the story about you and Matt. Spit it out."

Jen laughed. "There's nothing to tell. When I came home from college for summer break one year, our pool was being cleaned or something. So I went over to the Caldwell's instead. And it was just Matt and me hanging out. My boyfriend had just dumped me and I was terribly upset. Matt made me feel a whole lot better. Over and over and over again. It was probably the thrill of doing it right there in the open. His parents or Mason could have come home at any moment. It was so fun being young."

"Wait," Bee said. "So it was just like a one day thing with tons of sex?"

"Oh, no, it was the whole summer. I'm pretty sure we banged on every surface in their house. God, it was so much fun."

"So what happened?" I asked. "Why wasn't it more than just sex?"

"The guy is a brick wall. He fucks. He has no emotion. He uses your body for pleasure. It's kind of exhilarating."

"Says the woman betrothed to someone else."

"Well, yeah. I wanted love. Ian's my other half. Matt was just like...a sex slave. Besides, our parents would have been thrilled if we ended up together. Despite the age difference. And just that fact alone was a total boner killer. I mean, not literally. I'm pretty sure Matt is at attention 24/7."

I laughed. "A summer fling with you and Matt? I just can't imagine it. Wait, hold on a second. I could have sworn that when we tried to set him up with Melissa that you said he wasn't a..." I bit the inside of my lip, trying to think of the proper phrase.

"A mindless sex robot," Bee said with a laugh.

"Yes! Jen, you said he wasn't a mindless sex robot!" I emphasized the word wasn't.

Jen shrugged her shoulders. "Well, I lied. I thought they'd be cute together."

"Jen!"

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