a woman. I just needed to remember that was all it was––a pleasure-filled, physical act. If I could just manage to keep my blasted emotions out of it, Oliver and I would be just fine. Better than fine, actually… We would be satiated and flying high on the endorphins released by having amazing sex.
His hand snaked up my tee-shirt, and he cupped one breast, testing the weight of it in his hand before brushing his thumb over my nipple.
A stuttered sigh escaped my lips at his gentle touch. He groaned in my mouth as he deepened our kiss.
I slid my palm inside his shirt and up his back to his broad shoulders. His skin was hot to the touch. When he pressed his lower half into me, I cried out with the pleasure of it as my hand eased down under his loose sweats to his smooth, bare ass. I pulled him into me, making him sigh as he nuzzled into my neck.
Unable to resist the allure of his magnetic erection any longer, I began moving my hand around to his front. When I wrapped my hand around the hot, velvety skin of his shaft, he let out a deep groan, but he put a shaky hand on mine to stop me.
“I can’t,” he croaked out in a voice that was barely above a whisper, before extricating himself from my embrace, standing, and stalking towards the bathroom. Just before closing the door behind him, he said, “I’m going to take a cold shower.”
I sat up in the bed and stared at the bathroom door. “What the hell just happened?” I asked the empty room before reaching for my cell phone.
Not caring a bit if it was too early to call, I punched the button to dial Soraya. As was typical for her, she answered the phone with a question. “Did you get him naked and have your way with him yet?”
“I tried,” I whispered, hoping that he wouldn’t be able to overhear our conversation, but needing to talk this out too much to wait for a better time to call my friend.
“What do you mean you tried?” Soraya’s tone sounded suspicious. “As our friend Yoda would say, ‘Do or do not. There is no try.’”
“Well, I tried. Hard. I even stuck my hand down his pants, but he put a stop to it.”
Soraya’s tone was filled with disbelief when she said, “Wait… What?”
“That’s right. I had his dick in my hand, when he put his hand over mine and said that he couldn’t.”
“Oh, he couldn’t get it up?” Soraya guessed.
I shook my head even though I knew she couldn’t see me. “No, that’s not the problem at all. He was hard and ready for action––just not with me, apparently.”
“This makes no sense.” My friend sounded perplexed on my behalf.
“I know,” I said a little too loudly. Quieting my tone, I asked, “Am I just utterly un-fuckable?”
“Now who’s making up words?” she teased me before turning serious. “But the answer is no. You are absolutely fuckable. I would definitely do you if I was into that sort of thing.”
“Thanks,” I said flatly before adding, “Then what’s the problem?”
“I can’t imagine,” she started before I heard her fingers snap. “I know! Maybe he doesn’t have any condoms with him.”
“What kind of self-respecting womanizer goes on a weekend getaway with an available female without condoms?” I asked her, my tone filled with doubt that this could be the reason.
“That has to be it. It’s the only thing that makes sense,” she assured me.
“Maybe…” I said, but my voice was still tinged with doubt.
“There’s one way to find out for sure,” she hinted. After a pregnant pause, she said, “Take him to the drugstore today and buy some rubbers. That will give him a fairly heavy-handed hint about what you expect to happen in your hotel room tonight.”
I couldn’t keep the wariness out of my voice when I said, “I don’t know… What if someone from town sees me buying them.”
“Small towns,” Soraya scoffed as if she couldn’t comprehend the rumor-mill being an actual problem. Ever helpful, she added, “You could drive over the town border to buy your contraband without spying eyes.”
I mulled over her suggestion. It would definitely force things out in the open with Oliver. His erection was rock-solid proof that his body found me to be desirable.
Unable to think of another viable excuse for his unwillingness to do me, I finally decided that purchasing a box of condoms might be