Tanner cleared his throat. “Anyway, back to what I was saying. Penny’s going to let James know that I’m helping you find true love too. So it’s no longer an issue of the two of you hanging out.”
If he said “true love” one more time I was going to snap. I’d told him that this stupid dating app thing wasn’t about finding true love. It was about getting to hang out with Penny one on one. Not hanging out with her and Tanner. What was he doing?
Penny took a sip of her milkshake.
And for a second, as her lips wrapped around the straw, I forgot that I was pissed at her. God, I just wanted to feel those lips around my cock.Stop.
“It’s a good thing you did tell Tanner,” Penny said. “He told me he has a whole binder full of potential suitors.” She frowned. “No, that’s not the right word. Suitresses? Maybe?”
Tanner nodded. “Yes, it’s a bit of a dated term, but suitress is the female equivalent to suitor. I’m impressed that you knew that. I haven’t heard the term in years. And I do indeed have a binder full of suitresses.”
I didn’t need his binder full of women. We’d literally just talked about this last night. Did he have severe memory loss or something?
“Mommy?” Scarlett said, yawning awake from her nap. “I need to use the potty. Please,” she added.
“Okay,” Penny said and scooped her up into her arms. “Be right back.” She practically sprinted to the restroom.
Scarlett liked to give very little warning before she needed to use the bathroom. In that one way she was just like her father. Very uncaring of the consequences of her actions. Fine, she also had brown eyes like James. Otherwise she was as sweet and beautiful as her mother.
“So this is going very well,” Tanner said.
I turned to him. “Really? What part of this conversation do you think is going well?”
“You weren’t going to be allowed to hang out with her anymore. So I inserted myself into the situation to appease her husband. You’re most welcome.”
“Tanner, I don’t actually want to find love. I told you that.”
“Yeah, but I had to continue with the charade. Did you expect me to tell her that this was all a ploy just so you could sleep with her?”
Fair point. “No, of course not.” I didn’t need James and Penny both mad at me.
He looked over to see that Penny and Scarlett were still in the restroom. “Hmm…too bad.”
“What’s too bad?” I learned a long time ago that you had to ask Tanner questions when he left stuff open ended. Waiting in silence for him to fill in the blanks never worked. He always acted like he had all the time in the world and would literally make you wait and wait and wait some more.
“Because she also agreed to sleep with you tonight. Room 904 at your usual place.”
Wait, what?I would’ve choked on my milkshake again if I’d just sipped any. “What are you talking about?”
He lowered his voice. “I told her that it’s better to get you out of her system than to let this unresolved sexual tension between you go on any longer in its destructive path.”
My heart started beating faster.
“But I’m assuming you can convince her that just this once isn’t quite enough. I’ll leave that to your performance in the bedroom tonight.”
“You’re kidding me right now.”
He laughed. “Do I ever joke about true love? And you’re going to have to pull out all the stops, because it sounds like James knows his way around the bedroom quite well.”
Why would I want to know that? I couldn’t question him any further because Penny and Scarlett sat back down.
I swore Penny blushed when she met my gaze.
This was really going to happen. I was going to sleep with Penny? For just a second I thought about James. But I squashed it back down. James never gave a shit about my feelings. Why should I care about his?
“So what’s the plan?” Penny asked. “I know you’re going out with the guys tomorrow, but maybe we can all get together on Sunday?”
Sunday? But Tanner said…
