Unbroken Pleasures Read Free Page B

nightstand and pulled myself up
to my elbows. The sheet had fallen away as I slept and revealed the fact that I
was still completely naked. The sight of my body in bright sunlight made me
shudder slightly. I hadn’t been with a man since Ed and I broke up almost a
year ago and before him, I had few serious relationships to speak of. I wasn’t
exactly the sort of girl to go stalking the night in search of prey and lure
him back to my place for hot sex without even asking his name. I shook my head
slowly as if doing so would put the world back into perspective. It didn’t
help.
    I slung my feet
over the side of the bed and made my way back to the scene of the crime - my
shower. At least we hadn’t actually had sex, I tried to rationalize. What the
hell was I thinking? I’d practically thrown myself at a man with no means of
protecting myself at all. Maybe Sylvia had a point about my life. I was going
off the deep end in a big way.
    I stepped into
the shower and turned on the water letting it cascade over me, careful to
lather my body with soap to wash away any trace of his touch. I closed my eyes
but when I did, I could only see his eyes watching me as he’d pleasured me, the
way he’d stared at me with pure hunger. I still didn’t know what held him back
from taking me right then and there. God knows I was willing. I felt the sting
of arousal in my belly as I remembered him. I didn’t want to feel this way but
I couldn’t will it away.
    I hurried
through the rest of my shower and got dressed in a pair of jeans and t-shirt as
I tried to ignore the desire claiming my core. I needed a boyfriend, I decided.
It had been far too long since Ed and I broke up and it wasn’t like I didn’t
have offers for a date now and then. I wasn’t entirely unattractive. I looked
at myself in the mirror as I combed my hair and wondered how I must look to
others - how I looked to him. I sighed, it wasn’t helping. Every time I steered
my thoughts to a new direction, I circled right back to how much I wanted him
to touch me. I put down the comb, grabbed my purse, and ran out the door
without bothering to dry my hair.
    “I need your
help,” I said flopping into the booth at Dino’s across from Sylvia. She was
lost in her kindle and didn’t even notice I’d sat down. I uncrossed and re-crossed
my legs in frustration. This was urgent. I couldn’t wait. I needed a man now. I
needed Sylvia’s help. She was far more experienced in these sorts of
emergencies than I was.
    Sylvia sighed
and turned off her kindle. She practically rolled her eyes when she looked at
me, letting her blond hair fall across her face as she leaned forward to sip
her coke.
    “I’m sorry,
okay? I was having trouble sleeping again last night and next thing I knew, you
were calling me. It’s not like I went out of my way to mess up our plans.”
    “There is
something different about you,” she said wrinkling her nose. It was almost as
if she could smell it on me no matter how thoroughly I’d washed or how much I’d
tried to cover the evidence with perfume. Sylvia always knew. She was like a
bloodhound for sex. I watched in horror as she studied me with piercing blue
eyes and wondered how deeply she could reach into the corners of my mind to
unearth the secrets that lie there. I held my breath waiting for her assessment.
She leaned back and folded her arms across her chest but she didn’t say
anything. I felt perspiration along my forehead. It was almost unheard of that Sylvia
would have nothing to say. Dare I ask?
    The waitress
interrupted by asking me what I would like. I ordered an iced tea without lemon
and then as an after thought added a double cheeseburger with a side of fries
to my order, hold the mayo. The waitress jotted it down and disappeared. Sylvia
was staring at me with wide eyes.
    “What?” I asked
feeling suddenly self conscious, “It’s after one and I haven’t eaten a thing.
I’m starving.”
    Sylvia still
didn’t speak and it was