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that I really just wanted to go home but no
matter which tactic I chose, she wouldn’t hear me. The fact that she and Ben
could barely keep their hands off each other didn’t help. For better or for
worse, Nick and I were left alone on the living room couch as Sylvia and Ben
disappeared into her bedroom. We didn’t have to wonder what was going on behind
the closed door.
    I looked at Nick
and he looked at me. We both looked in the direction of the hallway where we
could see the open door of the guest room beckoning us. I looked back at him
and shrugged. All the forwardness of the man in the car had vanished. All of a
sudden, he didn’t seem to know how to approach me. It wasn’t the first time a
man seemed bewildered with what to do with me. It didn’t leave me feeling very
self-confident in my abilities to seduce but I figured we were here, we should
do something. I inched closer so that I could invite Nick to kiss me. His lips
brushed against mine lightly and we pulled away and looked at each other again.
I needed another drink and suggested as much. He agreed immediately and went in
search of something suitable from Sylvia’s liquor cabinet. He returned with two
glasses and a bottle of spiced rum but nothing to mix it with.
    He poured a
small amount in each of the glasses and raised his glass in a toast to the
evening with the backdrop of moans and sighs coming from the master bedroom. I
felt like an intruder listening to Sylvia’s ecstatic cries. From the way Nick
looked longingly in their direction, I suspect he wished he’d ended up with her
instead of me. I slumped my shoulders and took a large gulp of my drink letting
the liquid burn my throat and warm my belly. If this didn’t ease the tension
between us, nothing would.
    “So, you’re a veterinarian,”
Nick said at a feeble attempt to make small talk. We’d already discussed my
employment at length earlier at dinner. I didn’t really feel like talking about
it anymore.
    “Yes,” I said
simply eyeing up the bottle of amber liquid.
    “Ben didn’t tell
me a lot about you.”
    “What did he
say?”
    “Honestly?”
    “Yes.”
    “He said you
were Sylvia’s friend, stunningly beautiful, and in desperate need of a good
shag.”
    “I see.”
    “He was right.”
    “Excuse me?”
    “I mean, about
the stunningly beautiful part. I’m not convinced you actually need a man,” he
said chuckling lightly.
    I looked up
feeling my face going red. Had I been that obvious with Sylvia?
    “I only mean
that you don’t need your friend to set you up with some guy you don’t even
know,” he added. If he knew why he’d suddenly made me so uncomfortable, he
didn’t make any sign of it. I let out the breath that I’d held and decided that
if we were going to do this, we might as well just get it over with. He seemed
like a nice enough guy and between my thoughts of the stranger and my dream, I
was definitely in need of something. I might as well take the chance. The alcohol
gave me a coat of bravery that I didn’t have five minutes earlier.
    “I don’t seem to
have much luck with guys,” I confessed. I stood up and moved closer to him
reaching behind me to unfasten my dress in the process. In my mind’s eyes, I
was graceful and smooth but in reality, the alcohol had made my head so fuzzy
that I could barely manage the zipper. I tripped and fell into his arms. He
laughed again, this time at my expense.
    “I think we
better cut you off the drinks,” he said trying to set me upright again.
    We stood face to
face and his eyes softened as he reached out and tucked stray hair behind my
ear. He leaned in and kissed me and I melted into his kiss but once again
stumbled as I tried to close the distance between us.
    “Maybe we should
just go to the bedroom?” I suggested. He picked me up off my feet and carried
me without a word.

 
    Chapter 5
     
     
    I knew the
moment I opened my eyes that I was in trouble. I heard a groan and peeked out
from under my elbow