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Orsexy as hell Maybe they're flirting right now, and she's running her foot up the inside of his leg, suggesting they go back to her place Or maybe they're already in the cab, and she's all over hiue down his throat as she straddles him

Maybe they ainst the door of the apart her hands over her head as they kiss, and sliding his hand down the front of her skirt Maybe he's spread-eagling her across the couch and going down on her Orhis cock, better thanhim cry out in pleasure

Maybe he's realizing at this very ain Maybe he's savoring the chance to have so, someone he hasn't claimed yet

Maybe to and too eive a daup with at the bar right now

My stoht knot that I fear it will never recover Against es

No new es

Of course not Because he's out there with her soht away froe that co up with your roonate her with no strings attached

I feel sick

That's when the elevator dings

I sit up straight, an to glow in the foyer Cannon's back But will he be alone?

I can't stand the tension Can't stand sitting here to watch So I flick off the TV, grab my cell, and speed-walk back towardopen on our floor, spilling open, revealing the people inside I brace le or the sound of Cannon and this anony face

Instead, all I hear is his steady, deep baritone voice calling out

"Rina?"

I hesitate Glance atBut I don't hear anything else No clack of heeled footsteps, no second voice in the living room

Hesitantly, I turn the knob and swing the door open I pretend to rub sleep fro that I'd been asleep It's only 10PM, but I have had a long night, after all A long night of drivingall the worst scenarios possible

But I walk out into the living room to find Cannon thankfully, blissfully, alone

It takes every ounce of self control I have not to let the sudden flood of relief that flies throughmy voice sounds steady, normal "You're home early"

His expression looks the same way that it did earlier today in the office when I told hio on the double date Chris proposed He looks wary, hesitant, careful, in a way that I' from him Not lately Not ever, actually—even before we cos from one another Not like this "Got tired," he says, and fakes a yawn I can tell it's fake, because he doesn't stretch his arms over his head the way he always does when he yawns Instead he stifles it with one hand and then heads past me toward the kitchen

"Date didn't go well then?" I ask I can't help it And I also can't disguise the way my voice shoots up a level when I do ask

Damn it

“Oh, you know, nothing serious”

“Your favorite kind of date,” I point out

He laughs, and my stomach sinks Was he into her? Does he want her because it’s less complicated? “You know my MO too well,” he replies, and that doesn’t help my overactive nerves

What does she have that I don’t?

Or is it just that she’s the next new thing? The one he hasn’t had yet? I think about my ex The way he duether I steel myself for the worst “That the only update?” I push

"If you're asking about Chris and Lacy, I'd say that's going perfectly They're actually really compatible I think"