Deb's man. Awesome...
that was just perfect.
As much as she wanted to believe that there was a reason
Josh had started seeking her out, started kissing her, started watching her
until she was so hot she soaked through the crotch of her swimsuit, she just
couldn't fathom what it was. She knew from their talk at the river that Josh
and Deb weren't all that sexually active right now. Maybe this was just sexual
frustration and she looked easy. It wouldn't be the first time someone had
mistakenly thought that.
She rolled her eyes at her own thoughts. After all her years
of acting so brazen, flirting with everyone, dating constantly, was it any
wonder that people thought she was a little bit of a slut. The tattoos,
piercings and less than prudish attire probably didn't help matters. But she
wasn't easy. Not really. She could count on one hand the number of guys she'd
actually slept with. And there were just a few more that she'd been with in
other ways. That wasn't easy, was it? That was just being someone who truly
enjoyed sex. There was nothing wrong with that.
As she silently reassured herself, it finally occurred to
her that in this one case, she was in fact, easy. Josh had kissed her twice.
Sure, there were some pretty intense comments designed to rile a girl up, but
he had actually kissed her exactly twice. And the second time she was grinding
herself against him until they both shot off like horny teenagers. So much for
playing hard to get. And not only was she easy, she was screwing around with a
guy that was completely and totally taken. After all this time, after all the
guys she had turned down, she had just become Josh's dirty little secret.
That was too much to handle. No matter how hot he was, no
matter how much she wanted to see him really let go, to see that wild side she
just knew was hidden under the surface, she was not going to do this again.
They were not the type of people that belonged together and
she was not delusional enough to pretend otherwise. Just like she wasn't
masochistic enough to actually risk falling for him. She just wanted to see the
fire underneath the calm. Just to see if she was right. To see what he was like
when he truly let go. That's all it was.
But even that would be forgetting one absolutely vital
detail. He was engaged. And she was better than that.
Chapter 9
Georgia was cranky. No, she was furious. Or maybe she was
just frustrated. Or just plain horny. Whatever she was, she didn't like it at
all. It had been two weeks since her little incident with Josh. She had done
her level best to avoid him, and the process had meant avoiding most of her
friends as well. She wanted some time to put the whole thing behind her, to
forget about it, before she had to face Josh again. Or Deb. Or anyone else in
the wedding party.
In her efforts to put him completely out of her mind, she
had done everything she could to keep busy. Including cleaning her house top to
bottom, even going so far as to wipe down the blinds, ceiling fans and the
baseboards. She had done the same to her shop. When she ran out of chores to
do, she even went so far as to join a gym. Yep, a gym! Not the club where all
her friends frequented, of course, but the little one across town where all the
giant muscle heads worked out. She had hoped that maybe a little physical
exercise, along with some new faces, might help to keep her mind occupied. Or
keep her body occupied. Or at least she'd be too tired to think about Josh, or
'ass hat' as she had taken to calling him in her head.
She had decided that the entire thing had been a simple,
hormonal reaction to being kissed. It had been a very long time since she'd
been kissed, and even longer since she'd had sex. When someone, anyone, kissed
you with that much pent up energy, you couldn't help but respond. Throw in her
celibate status as of late, and she went off like a roman candle. While she did
feel guilty having done that to one of her best friends, she placed most of
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