just that...”
Sam
didn’t know how Ashleigh was going to dig herself out of this one, but she was waiting
patiently, her grumbling stomach not terribly happy with her at the moment.
“Ok,
no. I don’t have any experience. I mean none whatsoever.” Ashleigh admitted
with a sigh.
Was
she saying...? Sam’s eyes widened as she tried to
comprehend what her friend was telling her, but before she could voice what was
on her mind, Sierra beat her to it.
“You’re
a virgin?”
Ashleigh
glanced back and forth around their table before grimacing. “Good grief,
announce it to the entire restaurant why don’t you.”
“Oh
my goodness.” Sierra was apparently out of words.
“Holy
crap, Ashleigh. How in the world have you come up with the material you’ve
plied your readers with? I have to admit, I’m addicted to these erotic romance
novels you’ve got going on, but I would have never imagined you could come up
with some of that stuff without any experience whatsoever.”
“Addicted?
Hmmm... I like that.” Ashleigh beamed. “It’s not that hard really. Just because
I’ve never had an orgasm at the hands of a man, doesn’t mean I haven’t
experienced one for myself.” She laughed as she poured ketchup on her plate
like they were talking about the weather and not an intensely personal aspect
of her life.
“But...”
Again Sierra seemed to be overwhelmed to the point she couldn’t even finish a
sentence.
Ashleigh
laughed, but then her smile died a quick and painful death and she looked more
than serious, staring back and forth between both women. “Don’t you dare tell
another living soul. I mean no one. Not Logan,” she said, looking at Sam, “and
not Cole or Luke,” she told Sierra. “Nobody whatsoever.”
“Does
Alex know?” Sam couldn’t imagine what his reaction would have been if Ashleigh
told him.
“Good
God no! I mean seriously. I’m almost thirty years old. Could you imagine what
he’d say if he were to find out?”
No.
No, she couldn’t.
On
top of that, Sam didn’t know how the hell Ashleigh Thomas had made it this far
without ever giving in to temptation. She did want to be a fly on the wall when
Alex found out though. That was going to be comical.
Chapter Five
~~ ** ~~ ** ~~ ** ~~
“How
was lunch?” Logan asked Sam when she walked in the door several hours later.
“It
was... good.”
Logan
got the impression Sam was holding something back, but he wasn’t about to ask
what it could possibly be. She was a woman, and she had just spent several
hours with her closest friends. He could only imagine what the conversation
entailed, but quite frankly, he didn’t want to know the interworking’s of the
female mind.
He
and Luke had talked over their burgers, but they definitely hadn’t talked about
anything personal the way he figured the girls did when they were together. His
conversations with his brother generally consisted of a few sports references,
but mostly they talked about the club or XTX.
“So,
what’s on the agenda for the afternoon?” Sam asked when she tossed her purse
onto the table, along with her cell phone. “Is Luke here?”
“No,
he left a little while ago. Something about getting home to his woman and
taking advantage of having her all to himself.”
“Hmmm...”
Sam said as she snuggled up against him, allowing him to fold her into his
arms. “I like the way his mind works.”
“Yeah?”
Logan’s body went instantly hard at Sam’s implication, but he knew that he had
to hold her off for a few hours because he wasn’t about to interfere with his
plans for the evening. “Well, I was thinking we could catch a movie, then come
home so you can make me that dinner you promised.”
“What’d
you have in mind?” She asked as she looked up at him, her arms wrapped around
his waist. Logan would never tire of having her touch him, or being able to hold
her close. It was the second best feeling in the world, the first of