Mending the Soul by Alexis Lauren Read Free Book Online

for some stupid neurosis that I have because that prick couldn't ever keep it in his pants."  Jenna said.
    "So, friends then?  We can move on after last night?"  Nicholas asked, offering his right hand for her to shake.
    "Friends."  Jenna said as she shook his hand.  "So, the kiss was nice?"  She teased innocently, with a huge smile spread across her face.
    "Yeah, could have used a little work though."  Nicholas joked.  Jenna punched him lightly on his arm, and he apologized.  "Yes Jenna, it was nice, or better than nice, but I thought we were moving on."
    "We are, I was just making sure."  Jenna laughed.
    "So, how are you feeling this morning, by the way."  He asked her.
    "Ugh, remind me not to drink so much next time.  I have had the mother of all headaches this morning, and this arcade isn't helping much!"  She groaned.  "How about you?"
    "I didn't think you looked too happy to be here.  Actually, I feel fine, but I had a lot less to drink than you did."  He told her.
    Jenna and Nicholas sat around talking while the kids played around the arcade.  When Nicholas's cell phone rang, he got up from the table and walked outside to answer it.  Jenna got bored when he didn't come back right away, so she picked up her phone and called Vanessa.
    "Hey girl, haven't talked to you in a while, where've you been hiding?"  Vanessa asked her.
    "Oh, I've just been busy, you know, work and Colby…How's everything with you?"  Jenna asked.
    "I've been good.  How's that neighbor of yours, and when are you going to set me up with him?"  Vanessa asked.  She had asked the same thing every time Jenna talked to her since she met him at Colby's birthday party.  Jenna had been pretty good about being able to brush her off each time, but lately she was getting persistent.
    "Nessa, I don't think he is ready for any of that stuff.  He's still trying to get over Leslie."
    "Well, it's not like I'm looking for a relationship from him, just a night of wild sex.  Everyone needs that now and then."  Vanessa told her.
    "Not everyone."  Jenna laughed.  "I think you'd probably give him a heart attack or scare him away or something."
    "Well, anytime he wants to take me up on the offer, I'm available for him."  She told Jenna.
    "I'll let him know, but I have to go now."  Jenna said.  They said their goodbyes and Jenna hung up her phone and returned it back to her purse.
    She wasn't sure why she had never told Nicholas about Vanessa's offers, but she hadn't.  If she was being honest with herself, she would have admitted that it was because she didn't think she could stand seeing him with another woman, other than herself.  But, she also didn't think she could see him with herself either, so it was a hopeless case.  She didn't want to have Vanessa be the first person that Nicholas had sex with since Leslie's death, she wanted to be the first.  She wanted to be the woman who made him smile, who made him laugh, and who drove him over the edge on the brink of his orgasm.
    Jenna started to blush as she thought about bringing Nicholas to an orgasm.  'I have really got to stop thinking about that.  It'll never happen.'  She thought to herself.
    Meanwhile, outside Nicholas was on his phone talking to his friend Nathan, one of the guys they had gone out with the night before.  "No, man.  I told you that Jenna and I aren't together.  Her and I are just friends.  She's free to see whoever she wants."  Nicholas should have known that Nathan would try to hook up with Jenna.  He wanted to punch the wall behind him, frustrated that Nathan was acting on his attraction to Jenna so fast, and that he was trying to go through Nicholas to get to her.
    "Well, if you and her are just friends, you think you could set up a date between her and I?  You think she'd go for me?"  Nathan asked.
    "Dude, I couldn't tell you.  Why can't you just ask her yourself and leave me out of it."  Nicholas asked, trying to not let his irritation