“Well, I guess then this is a good time to have that tea,” he announced. “Better yet, let’s have something to eat. I’m starving.”
Natalia raised an eyebrow as she watched him pull his pants back on.
“So you are staying?” she asked, surprised. He got his shirt from the floor and looked at her nodding.
“Why wouldn’t I?” he asked with a smile. He was now standing right in front of her. He pulled the bedding from her and let it fall to the ground before he helped her into his shirt.
“But we are not going to have sex,” she said as he began buttoning the shirt up, leaving just enough buttons undone so he could steal glances at her full breasts.
“If that is all you think I want from you then you must really not know what you do to me, Natalia,” he said as he planted a kiss on her forehead.
Chapter 3
“You what?” Elle asked as she looked at her best friend who was filling her in on what had happened the night of the party. How she and Alex had bailed on the party and ended up spending the entire weekend indoors. Natalia who was having lunch with Elle on Monday, had just come clean about the poor excuse she had used to get out of sleeping with Alex.
“Didn’t he suspect something was amiss?” Elle asked. Natalia took a bite of her spaghetti and meatballs and shook her head.
“I don’t know. He probably did but he never mentioned it,” she said before taking another bite.
“Never ever?” Elle asked still surprised. Natalia shrugged.
“Well, he did mention that it was a bit weird since he had kind of…” her cheeks flushed. “Well he did…you know…kneel at the altar,” she finally said and Elle shook her head.
“What?” Elle asked, confused.
“He gave me a cherry flip,” Natalia said again in a low voice.
“You mean he went down on you?” Elle asked as she looked at Natalia who was now looking around.
“Will you keep your voice low?” she said leaning forward.
Elle smiled and leaned back.
“Well, someone finally got her groove back, didn’t she?” she said smiling. Natalia shook her head and took another bite of her food.
“Well, not really,” she said in a soft voice. “Like I said, I did not go through with it.”
Elle took a sip of her juice and shook her head.
“Come on, he cannot be that big,” she said. Natalia rolled her eyes.
“He is not big…he is huge,” she corrected him. “I have honestly never imagined anything like that but from a porn movie.”
“But I thought you wanted him,” Elle pointed out. Natalia nodded as she took yet another bite.
“I did. I do.” She took a long sip of her wine. “I think I just panicked.”
“Okay away from your very disturbing sexual reality,” Elle started. “You said that he was supposed to go to New York on Saturday?” Natalia nodded. “But you said that he only left for New York today.”
“Yeah, he did,” she said in a soft voice. “He just made a call and cancelled everything.”
“And the two of you spent two days indoors without having sex?” Elle was having a very hard time understanding her best friend who was now nodding. “How is that even possible?”
“Well, we spent much of the time talking and catching up. He found out what happened with me and I found out what happened with him,” Natalia pointed out as she took another long sip. “Sex is not the only thing that two people could do together, she added as a waiter brought their bill. Elle reached into her purse but Natalia held a hand up. “My treat.”
“Really, thanks,” Elle said with a smile.
“Well, I did bail on you at my company’s party,” Natalia pointed out as she put a few bills on the table.
“So, what next?” Elle asked when the waiter went away. Natalia looked at her shaking her head.
“Honestly, I have no idea,” she said in a low voice.
*****
When Natalia got back to the office, she had half a mind to call it a day and just go home but the fact that it was only ten past two made her change her mind. She looked at a post it note on her computer and sighed. She was supposed to go through some paperwork before the end of the day. ‘Some paperwork’ as Rick had called it was going to be a ton of paperwork, that much she knew. She sighed and opened one of the files on the desk. She had just completed the first page of the file when she heard her phone ringing. She reached for her phone and looked at the screen. A smile played on her lips when she saw it was Alex texting her.
Hey beautiful. Stuck in a meeting. Thinking of you.