A crazy idea pops into my head.
Shaking my head, I chuckle. “I could give you the real girlfriend experience.”
Her eyes look curious. “What would that entail?”
“For the next fourteen days, well actually until after the wedding, I would treat you as if you were really my girlfriend. That means you let me touch and kiss you as much as I want to.”
She swallows hard. “What happens after the wedding? You dump me?”
“Of course not. The ending depends entirely on you. We can tell everyone that we split amicably. I can take all the blame. You can tell them I’m such an asshole you couldn’t stand being with me for another moment. Fuck, you can tell them I have a small dick and couldn’t get you off. I don’t care.”
She eyes me warily. “You would really let me say whatever I want?”
I nod. “Yep. Whatever you need to do to keep your reputation intact.”
“What about you? Wouldn’t that make you look bad?”
I shrug. “People already think I’m an asshole. I really don’t give a fuck if women think I’m small. I don’t date for a reason, doll. The women I see know the score. If by chance I finally find a woman I want to date, she won’t care that some ex-girlfriend said I had a small pecker.”
“How generous of you,” she says sarcastically.
“Also, if we do this, then that means you go on all shore excursions with me.”
“I can’t afford a bunch of extra shit.”
I smirk at her. “Good thing I already booked you on all the ones I’m on. No worries. Tomorrow we go snorkeling.”
Her eyes widen a moment, a look of fear flittering in her eyes. “I don’t like you buying me things.”
I sigh. She is obviously worried that I’ll ask her to pay me back. She should know that’s not who I am. How would she though? She’s never allowed me to show her the real me.
“Think about it like this. You’re getting a free vacation. I paid for the room, the drink package, food, and excursions. All you have to do is sit back and look hot. Besides, you are solving an issue for me too.”
“Really? What issue is that?”
“My mom is going to be at the wedding too. She has been on my ass about settling down. You’ll be the first girl I’ve claimed as my girlfriend in a really long fucking time. So not only will she leave me alone about dating, but I will actually have a date for the wedding. All I want are some dances.”
“We won’t have sex though.” She almost looks disappointed at that fact.
“We won’t do anything you don’t want to do, but I will need a little leeway.”
“Like what?”
She looks nervous, as she should be. I have plans for us. I might not be able to prove to her that I would make a worthy boyfriend, but I sure will make her miss me when she finally leaves me.
I give her a cocky grin as I answer her. “Want to go get a drink by the pool?”
* * *
“Areyou really going to sit there and look through magazines?”
When I told Dominic I wanted to come lay out while reading a book instead of grabbing a drink, he insisted on coming with me.
At first, I was hesitant. I hate when people interrupt me while I’m reading.
Then he reassured me he would leave me alone by grabbing all the cruise line magazines out of the room.
“It’s interesting. Did you know there are some cruise lines you can live on year round?”
