Page 52 of Feast

She sipped her beer. “Too much going on. Makes it hard to focus.”

“Ah.”

“Have you ever?”

“Had an orgy?” Spence closed his eyes again. It was either that or start nibbling on that exposed shoulder. “Sort of.”

“How do you ‘sort of’ have an orgy?”

“I guess it was more of a gang-bang,” he mused. “One woman, four men.”

“I’d say that’s a gang,” she said, the sofa cushions shifting again as she moved. “When was this, college?”

“I went to a Catholic college,” he said. “The one you’re working at, actually.”

She snorted. “Like that means anything.”

He smiled at that. “No, it wasn’t college, it was Thanksgiving.”

“This Thanksgiving?” she asked. “The one two months ago?”

“That’s the one.”

“Geez. I usually just eat turkey.”

“We did that, too.” He opened his eyes to peer at her again. She was lying on the sofa now, propped in the far corner with her legs stretched out so her feet nearly touched his hip. “The gang-bang came later.”

She frowned. “On a full stomach?”

He laughed. “You sound like Jude.”

“Who’s Jude?”

“A friend. One of the bangers,” he elaborated. “He does have experience with orgies.”

“Good you all had an expert on hand.” She rolled the beer bottle between her hands, her whiskey eyes curious. “So? Was it fun?”

“Yeah, it was.” He lifted his beer for a drink. “A little choreographed for my taste, but when you’ve got four people vying to fuck one person, some planning is necessary.”

“Were you a fucker, or the fuckee?” she wanted to know.

“Four men and one woman,” he reminded her, amused.

“I don’t know your life,” she said with a shrug that nudged the sweater further down her arm. “You could be bi.”

“Esme was the fuckee,” he said. “For the record, I’m straight.”

“The Esme you don’t want me to meet, because your life is fucking complicated enough?”

He toasted her with his beer. “That’s the one.”

“For the record, I’m straight too,” she said, then shrugged. “Mostly.”

He cocked an eyebrow. “Mostly?”

“I really like boobs,” she explained. “Can you teach me how to do that eyebrow thing?”

“No.”

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