Page 16 of Cream Pie

“Were you bullshitting me earlier?”

“Okay, let’s get some smiles going, you two!” the photographer’s bubbly voice shakes me away from Javier, and I smile widely, only to feel his hands tighten on my waist.

“About?” I hiss

“You know what I’m fucking talking about, Amy,” he growls quietly. “Were you seriously a…”

I swallow thickly, feeling a heat building at my ear where his lips are hovering, and another on my hips, under his touch.

“Were you actually a virgin?”

“Smile, guys! Best man! Hello! It’s a wedding, not a funeral!”

Javier swears under his breath, but then he must be smiling because the photographer beams and starts clicking away.”

“Does it matter?” I hiss back. “I’m a big girl, I can make my own decisions—”

“Yes or fucking no, Amy,” he grunts. “And yes, it fucking matters.”

“Why?” I shrug, shivering against him. “I mean you got laid. Do guys even care about more than that?”

“I care about more than that, yeah,” he mutters. "So answer the goddamn—”

“Yes,” I hiss. “Okay? Fine, yes. Happy now?”

He growls.

“Oh what. I’m pretty sure you had a halfway decent time. Both times,” I mutter.

“It’s not that.”

“Then what the heck are you pissed ab—”

“Because if I’d known, I wouldn’t have.”

I frown and whip my head around. “Excuse me? What the hell is that supposed to mean?”

“I’m over hee-reee, guys!”

The photographer’s annoyingly sing-song voice has me growling as I turn back to flash her a thin smile.

“It means, your first time should have been with—”

“My first time should be with whoever I fucking choose, whenever I fucking choose, actually,” I toss over my shoulder. “This isn’t the fifties or King Arthur’s time or whatever. I’m not some fucking damsel.”

“I was going to say, your first time should have been with anyone but me.”

I frown. “Why?”

“It just should have been, trust me,” he growls. “And I’m sorry.”

“For?”

“I’d have gone slower, if… you know.”

“If you’d known I was a virgin,” I whisper, turning to glance at him.

He nods, and goddamnit, those eyes of his catch mine, and I swallow thickly as heat pools between my legs.

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