Page 18 of Keeping Our Secrets

“So what you’re saying is you need to find someone else to get under?”

“Not sure if I need the added complication in my life, but yeah, I would welcome the distraction.”

“Take your pick,” Rick told me as he surveyed the crowd.

A few moments later, he waggled his eyebrows just as a manicured hand gently caressed my forearm. I glanced over to find a tall brunette, with a cute, girl next door look.

“Hey baby, wanna buy me a drink?”

“Sure,” I told her. “What are you drinking tonight?”

She licked her lips before responding, “I’d really like a sex on the beach.” Then her eyes got brighter. “Or maybe a fuzzy navel.”

Okay.

Maybe she wanted the girl next door look to work like a flytrap. A little sweet, at least until the stickiness of the trap made it impossible to leave.

A little like the one I left at home.

Then I knew I was completely fucked when I breathed in her perfume and the first thing that came to mind was how much she didn’t smell like the vixen across the hall.

So I did what any other insane guy would do, I ordered her a drink, and tried to let her down easily. By asking if I could order her friends’ drinks too.

“You’re not interested in me at all are you?” she pouted.

“Sorry.”

She shrugged her shoulders. “Well, at least we got some free drinks.”

“Have a nice night ladies,” I told them, then went in search of my friends.

“Guys, I think I’m gonna head out of here.”

“But you just got here, and they packed this place with girls, prime for the picking.”

“You’re an ass.”

“Everyone wants a piece of the Rickmeister.”

“No, they don’t,” Darren piped in.

“I’ll try a piece.”

“You’ll never be able to stop at one.”

“Get a room,” Darren booed.

“Let’s get out of here, sweetheart. D here is just jealous of what I’ve got.”

The woman examined Darren and I from head to toe and said, “I could do all three of you.”

Darren’s eyes widened, but he didn’t say a thing. Before I could respond, Rick took her hand and guided her away, whispering in her ear.

I watched as she giggled at his antics.

“Now that they’re both gone, what are you going to do?”

“I’ll find someone or something to occupy my time,” he responded.

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