Playing a Player (Sweet Cravings #1) - Ivy Smoak Page 0,26

well." He shrugged. "Does great sex not put you in a good mood?"

I could feel my face blushing. "Great sex?"

He leaned toward me slightly. "Yeah, great sex."

"You're awfully cocky."

"Well you should have heard yourself screaming my name." He raised his eyebrow. His hazel eyes seemed to bore into mine.

I gulped and looked down at my plate. "I doubt you really thought it was great." I pushed the eggs around with my fork.

"What do you mean?"

For some reason I wanted to cry. I didn't want to flirt with him at breakfast like last night meant nothing. I couldn't joke around about sex like he could. It meant more to me than that. "Thanks for breakfast, Rory. I'm going to eat in my room. I have a lot of work to do." The stool squeaked against the floor as I stood up.

"Keira." He grabbed my wrist. "I meant what I said. I had a lot of fun last night."

"Okay."

"Tell me what you meant." He rubbed his thumb against the inside of my wrist.

I wanted him to hold me like this forever. I looked up at him. "I thought you didn't sleep with girls you weren't attracted to."

"I never said I wasn't attracted to you, Keira."

"Yes you did. At your restaurant."

Rory dropped my hand and rubbed the back of his neck. "Oh. Right. I actually just said that so that you'd let me live here."

My wrist tingled where he had touched me. "You lied to me?"

Rory laughed. "Like you haven't lied to me."

"I've never lied to you."

"Seriously?"

I sat back down in my stool. Maybe honesty was the best approach here. "Fine. I never wanted that pact, Rory. I only agreed because I was nervous. And I ramble when I'm nervous. You're so handsome." I held my breath. It was all out there now.

He laughed. "It's okay. I knew."

"Was it really that obvious?"

"When you started using all my advice on me, yeah. You made it pretty obvious. And before that, I had my suspicions. Like when you walked in on me in the bathroom."

I laughed. "That was an accident!"

He gave me his panty dropping smile.

"Rory, it was."

"Well, anyway," he said as he stood up. "It's good we got that out of our systems. Now we really can just be friends." He lightly slapped me on the back as he put his slice of toast in his mouth and walked back to his bedroom.

What?!

***

I wiped under my eyes with the back of my hand and pressed the number for Emily's apartment. The door buzzed open. I grabbed it and slowly made my way up the stairs.

As soon as Emily opened her door, her face fell. "Keira?" She stepped to the side so I could walk in.

"Is that the food?" Emily's husband, Jim, said as he walked into the room. "Oh, hey, Keira. Um, I'm just going to..." he pointed to something and left the room. He must have seen my face.

"What the hell did he do to you?" Emily sat down on the couch.

"He didn't do anything," I said as I took a seat next to her. "Last night was perfect. He's so perfect."

"No one's perfect, Keira."

"He is. He's everything I've been looking for."

"You always do this."

"Do what?"

"Build people up. He's not perfect. He's a player. He's probably slept with a hundred women. That's disgusting. You don't want to be with a guy like that."

I felt sick to my stomach. "I do." I dropped my voice so Jim wouldn't be able to hear me. "It was the best sex I've ever had."

"Well it should have been. He's had enough practice."

"Emily."

"Keira! You knew you could never do a one night stand. Why the hell did you sleep with him?"

"I couldn't help it. He's just so..."

"Womanizing?"

"No. Sexy."

"Okay, so you had a great night. Maybe you should just talk to him about it."

I started to cry again. What the hell is wrong with me? "I did. I told him I never wanted that stupid roommate pact. I even told him I thought he was really handsome."

"And?"

"He said he was glad we got it out of our systems. And that now we could really just be friends."

"Ouch."

"Yeah." I wiped away my tears again. "How am I supposed to live with him now? I'm going to have to listen to him having sex with other women every night. I can't do this!"

"I realize that this is not the right time to do this, but..."

"Don't you dare say it, Emily." I tried to pout but her facial expression made me laugh.