Only With Me (With Me #2)(43)

I chuckled as I closed my laptop and made my way over to Charity. "Hey, can we talk in the office?"

She pulled her eyes away from the front window and looked at me. "What was that?"

Tilting my head, I narrowed my eyes. She was totally off in la la land. "Can we talk in the office?"

With a smile, she nodded and said, "Sure."

I motioned for her to go first as I followed her. I was supposed to have today off, but with Nic still working, I figured I might as well come in and take care of things.

Shutting the door, I set my computer on my desk as Charity flopped onto the small sofa and sighed.

Something was different about her. She had a . . . glow to her. Oh. Holy. Shit.

"You slept with someone."

She jolted up. "What? How did you know? Who told you?"

I leaned against the desk and held up my hands. "Whoa, hold onto your panties there. It was a guess. You're acting different."

"I am not."

I smiled.

"You're glowing."

Her eyes widened in horror. "I am not fucking glowing! You're glowing!"

With a giggle, I replied, "I'm sure I am. I'm falling in love with Nic."

A huge smile spread over her face as she stood and walked up to me. Taking my hands in hers, she shook her head. "My baby girl is growing up."

Yanking my hands from her, I pushed her away. "Stop it. I'm serious. We both kind of admitted to each other we were falling for one another."

Her brow lifted. "Kind of?"

I shrugged. "Okay, we did. But this isn't about me. This is about you and how you disappeared yesterday and then came back and you're acting all weird. I just want to make sure everything okay."

She took a few steps back and buried her face in her hands and let out a small scream. 

Okay. So that answers the are you okay question.

"Oh, Gabi, I'm so far from okay. I don't know what happened. I'm. He. I felt. Oh God!"

She flopped back on the sofa.

"I didn't get any of that, Charity. You're what? Who is he? And what did you feel?"

She covered her face again and said, "I slept with Cole yesterday."

Scissoring her fingers to peek at me, I stared at her in disbelief. "Wait. What?"

Her hands dropped to the sides of her body while she slumped over. "He came into the bakery like he always does, but for some reason I was insanely turned on by him yesterday. He was different. He didn't act stupid or try to flirt. He was . . . nice. Really nice."

I pursed my lips and gave her a really look.

"Don't judge. I haven't had good sex in so long I'm starting to think I need to plan a wedding with my vibrator."

I covered my mouth to hide my chuckle.

"Anyway, Cole came in acted all sweet and then he left. But I left right after to run to the store to buy more vanilla. Oh, by the way, we're very close to being out of vanilla. I never made it to the store because Cole was walking out of that little boutique a few doors down and we ran into each other. I swear to God the heat from his body lit mine on fire and I almost came on the spot.

I groaned and looked away.

"The next thing I knew, we were at a hotel and he was giving me the best sex of my life."

Wiggling my eyebrows, I smiled wide. "Really?"

"Yes. Then he did something no guy has ever done."

"Do I really want to know what he did?"

"Yes! Because I'm so confused by it I haven't had an ounce of sleep. I can't stop thinking about him and wondering when I'll see him again. My mind is racing and I keep asking myself if I dreamed it all up yesterday.

I pushed off the desk walked over and sat next to her. Taking her hand in mine, I asked, "My gosh, what did he do?"

She turned to look at me and said, "He made love to me and then stayed."

My eyes widened. "Huh?"

"He was slow and took his time as he worshiped my body and did things to me I never knew were possible. I came four times yesterday. Four! I've never had more than one orgasm with a man in my entire life." She smiled and closed her eyes as she kept talking. "My God . . . the man made sweet love to me even though he whispered in my ear that he wanted to fuck my brains out."

"Nice," I said with a snarled lip.

Refocusing on me again, she grinned. "I've never had a guy give me that much attention. It's usually more like let me rip your panties off, bend you over the table and fuck you till I grunt and come in six pumps."

I laughed. "But Cole wasn't that way?"

"No. I thought he was going to be, and I was okay with it. But when we got to the hotel and he kissed me, something happened. I know we both felt it. He took his time undressing me and then he . . . he . . ."

"He what?" I cried out.