“Ah, you know mine is nonexistent. Even though I wish it wasn’t. God, Piper is so hot,” Erik groaned.
“She sure is. You got lucky in the wife pool there, dude.”
“Have you ever had sex with a pregnant woman?”
“Ew, fuck no!” Phillip said with a disgusted look. “But I think it is different when it is with the baby momma. You know, you made that kid, so it’s okay if you poke it in the face.”
Erik couldn’t believe Phillip had just said that. Instead of laughing like he wanted, he told Phillip, “I think I’m obsessed with having sex with pregnant women.”
“What?” Phillip asked, confusion all over his face.
“I never ever thought of having sex with a pregnant woman before, but now it’s all I think about. Then again, when I look at her, I don’t see her pregnant. I see her hot, and smoking, and man, I want to bury myself inside her.”
“If I was married to her,” Phillip said, “I would never leave her pussy alone. God, she is so hot. I don’t know why you are here; you need to be upstairs, trying to get some.”
Okay, that bothered Erik a little, but he would ignore it. Piper wasn’t his real wife.
“She doesn’t want me like that.”
“Well, shit, dude, how long is it until you leave?”
“End of September.”
Phillip thought for a moment. “Okay, so she has the baby, then give her about six months to adjust and then she’ll be up to dating again, right?”
Erik looked over at Phillip and glared as he suspiciously asked, “Why?”
“ ’Cause I’m gonna come a-callin’. I would make a great husband and I could be a stepdad, that won’t be a problem, plus we are best friends, so no big deal,” Phillip said with the biggest grin on his face, like his plan was the best idea since freezing water to play hockey on it.
“Are you fucking kidding me?” Erik asked. His hands were shaking with anger while he swore he saw red.
“What? It’s a good plan.”
“It’s a horrible plan. She is my baby’s mother. She is off-limits to everyone,” Erik spat out.
Phillip laughed. “Oh, no. She is fair game once you leave.”
Erik’s face was on fire. “No, she’s not. Are you trying to piss me off?”
“No, I’m telling you the truth, asshole. But whatever, you think what you want to think while I go fuck these three beautiful ladies,” he said, standing up.
“I hope your dick goes limp,” Erik spat out, standing up, too.
Phillip laughed. “At least I get to try, while you are what? Watching a movie?”
“Asshole! If I wanted to get fucked, I would.”
“Sure,” Phillip said with a grin as he turned to the ladies. “Ladies, your man is ready to go.”
Erik watched as Phillip left. His body burned with anger and he felt a little dizzy. He was drunk, and that’s probably why he wanted to rip his best friend’s head off and stuff it up his ass. How dare he say those things about Piper! She wouldn’t want him or anyone else! She would raise their kid, be a good mom; she’s not going to want another man! What the hell was a man going to give her that Erik wouldn’t give her if she needed it?! He’d show her! The only man she needed to have sex with was him!
And that was final!
Chapter 12
Piper missed Erik.
She knew that was stupid but she did. It had been such a great day and she wished he had come back to the suite with her. She wanted him to lie on the left side of the bed and watch TV while she read, or maybe they could have watched a movie. Anything, really, she just wanted him to come back. Again, this was stupid on her part.
She needed to let go of this fantasy she had of them together. Yeah, they had gotten along better the last two days and yeah, he had a way to make her forget why she was mad, but nothing permanent was ever going to happen between them. He would leave as he said he would, and he wouldn’t even look back. The only thing he might look back for was their child. The sooner she realized this, the sooner her life would be able to go back to normal.
It was well into the wee hours of the morning and Piper should have been asleep already but there was no way she could sleep. Her mind kept coming back to him and not even her amazing book could keep that from happening. She wondered what he was doing, who he was with, if he was thinking of going home with some nonpregnant blonde or if he was thinking of her. Piper wanted to go find him, but she was afraid to since she knew that would only make things worse.
With a loud huff, she looked back down at her Kindle and tried to read the same page she had been on for the past hour. She had finally got past it when the door shook and Erik busted through, looking very drunk and as if he were on a mission. His eyes were barely open as he threw his jacket onto the floor, kicking the door closed. As he walked toward her while unbuttoning his shirt he stumbled into the coffee table.