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getting up to. Sex-wise. Which I guess he already knew, the gigantic arsehole.
Tommy rolled his shoulders. Looked both exasperated and relieved at the same
time.
He isn t a gigantic arsehole. He s a good guy and he s cool. Cooler than I ll ever
be.
She had to give him a little sock on the shoulder for that one.
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Hey you re cool. She gave him a shake, just for good measure. See, this is why
he s a gigantic arsehole. Because he s making you think you re not cool.
It s okay, hon. I m not sad about it. I mean, I know you re attracted to him but
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let s just hold up right there. I m not attracted to him.
He did more than turn and look over his shoulder this time. He actually moved
around on the bed until he faced her, and raised some eyebrow while he was at it.
Clearly, he d seen what Kieran looked like.
Which didn t give her the opportunity to do much, aside from maybe spreading her
hands and confessing all.
Yeah, okay. It s possible that I m a little tiny bit attracted to him, she got out, all in
a rush and with too much breathing in between.
But he didn t look the least bit perturbed. He looked intent, instead, and maybe sort
of& smoldering. She d never really thought about him as the type of person who
smoldered, but he d done it twice in the last hour or so. More than twice, in fact.
And even though it made no sense, it felt good. Reassuring, somehow.
But being attracted to someone doesn t mean anything. When you love someone,
that means something. Love comes above anything else, she added, and now he looked
perturbed. His breath caught somewhere low down in his throat, and she rushed on
just to keep it moving. Just to keep him breathing. And I love you. No one else. No
matter what he s told you about me or how many conversations I ve had with him, it
doesn t change the fact that I love only you.
Relief washed over his face and he took her hand, but all it made her think was,
What have they spoken about? She could just see Kieran now, smoking and leering and
telling her husband how hot to trot she was for another man.
I know. I mean, I knew. He s never tried to tell me otherwise, you know?
Even though Kieran clearly hadn t done that. He d had the chance, but he hadn t
done it. Why? Why?
Good. Because I want to know everything about you and what you want,
secretly even the stuff you think you can t tell me but I d never do anything to hurt
you.
He let out a long breath, and once it was done she just had to hug him. How long
had he felt this way, how long had he worried about it? She didn t know, and wasn t
sure she wanted to find out.
Instead she just put her arms around him and squeezed, hard. So hard that he
laughed after a moment, and oh it felt almost as good as when he d done it in the study.
It made her tone firm and filled her with conviction.
I d never do anything with Kieran. Never.
Why would she want to, when she had this guy right here? Her big, handsome guy
and all of his mixed-up-crazy secrets. How long had he been talking to Kieran, exactly?
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She couldn t even imagine. And when she tried to picture how they d first started
talking, the whole image of the thing got even more blurry.
Kieran approached him in some chat room, and just came right out with it. Hi, I m Kieran,
and your wife looks kind of sexually unsatisfied. Want to talk about it? she thought. But
thankfully, she didn t have to think about it for long.
Mainly because Tommy then said, sort of quietly and with a note of terror in his
voice, What if I want you to do something with him?
Seven revelations in one night were enough. Eight just felt like overkill. And though
rationally she knew there hadn t been anything even close to seven during the course of
this conversation, it kind of seemed that way.
She kept going hot and then cold again. Her palms seemed as sweaty as they had in
the study. And though it felt good to have so many things out in the open, it also felt
kind of like she d woken up that morning to a stranger in her bed.
Some insane stranger, who wanted her to have sex with another man.
You can t be serious.
Yes. Yes. That was the way to do it. Make a strong statement that questioned his
mental health. Doing so would obviously take the panicked look from his gorgeous
face.
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Dobre pomysły nie mają przeszłości, mają tylko przyszłość. Robert Mallet
De minimis - o najmniejszych rzeczach.
Dobroć jest ważniejsza niż mądrość, a uznanie tej prawdy to pierwszy krok do mądrości. Theodore Isaac Rubin
Dobro to tylko to, co szlachetne, zło to tylko to, co haniebne.
Dla człowieka nie tylko świat otaczający jest zagadką; jest on nią sam dla siebie. I z obu tajemnic bardziej dręczącą wydaje się ta druga. Antoni Kępiński (1918-1972)
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