good?”
“Huh?” He blinked.
“Sex. With Lila. Was it good?”
Roy shook himself. “Oh, yes. Very good. Until…well.” He felt his face go hot and squirmed inside. Full disclosure , he reminded himself. “Until she started having sex with Mr. Moneybags and decided she didn’t want to give me the same quality fuck she was giving him.”
Janet winced. Shit. Why’d she have to go and ask a stupid question like that? Roy looked as if he’d just been emasculated. Damn Lila. No wonder Roy was so down on women.
“I’m sorry. No one should have to face that kind of bullshit.” She hesitated. “Billy...wasn’t happy in our relationship. I mean, nothing I did satisfied him and he was always saying as much. We should have split months ago. But I don’t think he wanted to be on his own. Every time we talked about it, he’d imply that somehow or other I could fix what was wrong if I wanted to.”
“Because you were the problem?” Roy growled.
“Well, yeah. I was to blame and it was up to me to make things better. Then he met Tiffany and finally put an end to us.”
“That’s fucked up.” Roy said, genuinely angry. Janet was a great woman, sexy and funny. Kind. He couldn’t believe anyone would do that, keep her dangling and hoping and doubting herself till they were ready to leave. “While you were together, did he at least try to...satisfy you?” he asked awkwardly.
“You mean, sexually?” She offered a self-deprecating smile. “Yeah, but he almost never went down on me. I don’t know if he didn’t like it, or just didn’t want to with me .”
“What a shit!” Billy was sounding worse and worse to Roy. “It’s something a guy should do, no question. Or if he isn’t going to, then he shouldn’t expect anything in return.”
“I know, I know. I should have refused to suck his cock, but he had such a beautiful penis.” Janet shut her eyes and sighed. Oddly, that stirred something else in Roy, lust and something very like jealousy.
“Did you swallow,” he heard himself asking crudely. Janet’s dark eyes came open at his tone and the innocence in them made him feel guilty. What business was it of his if she had liked Billy’s cock?
“It wasn’t my thing,” she shrugged, “but Billy got off on it, so, yes, I did.”
“Lila never did. Most times I couldn’t even get her to...well.”
Janet shifted uneasily. Roy’s bitterness was back. “Some women aren’t into fellatio. Doesn’t mean anything.”
“I know. It’s just...I’d stimulate her till my jaw ached,” Roy pressed on, as if the truth were a venom he had to spit out, “And then she’d want to fuck. So I almost never got mine. And now I can’t stop wondering if she’s doing it all for Mr. Moneybags. I think,” he added softly, “that she faked her orgasms. At least during these last few months.”
“Oh, Roy!” Janet rose out of the tub, wanting to do something.
Roy felt his pulse speed up at the sight of her wet body. He saw her nipples harden in the cool air. “Here,” he snatched down a towel and wrapped it around her. Without intending to, he rubbed her dry, his hands lingering on the line of her back, the curve of her ass. He felt her warmth through the damp towel. Swallowing, he let go and stepped back. “Um—”
Janet adjusted the towel, unexpectedly charmed. Roy had copped a feel, but he’d done it so...thoughtfully.
“You know what I hated most about going down on Billy?” she said, stepping onto the bathmat, “I hated the way he talked to me while I was doing it. He’d say, ‘Yeah. Like that. That’s it!’ It was like he was masturbating. I mean, I was right there! Would it have been too much for him to say, ‘Oh, babe, you’re so good! Thank you!’?”
“I would have said it,” Roy murmured as he followed her into the bedroom. His face was red and his cock had gotten thick. He could feel it pressing against the cotton of his briefs. Janet sat on the bed and chewed on her lip.