Big Boy by Knox Ruthie

Author:Knox, Ruthie [Knox, Ruthie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adult
ISBN: 9781619215306
Goodreads: 16162964
Publisher: Samhain
Published: 2013-04-02T07:00:00+00:00

“But that’s just stupid,” Lisa tells me.

“Thanks.”

She’s leaning in the doorway of my office, having crashed my office hours for the purpose of lecturing me about my life. “No, seriously. You heard him make a couple of offhand remarks to a colleague. He was cleaning up a bunch of kid shit, and he said something callous about kids. That doesn’t mean he’s an asshole. I bet you said stuff like that all the time before you had Josh.”

It’s true. I’d only ever been able to handle babies in small doses. I have an innate distaste for bodily fluids. I never even got a cat, so grossed out was I by how they’re always horking things up or licking parts of themselves I don’t even want to think about.

“I say stuff like that now,” I tell her.

“Exactly. So why isn’t he allowed to?”

“He is.”

Lisa frowns. She doesn’t understand why I’m agreeing with her. “Exactly. So why have you decided you have no future with the guy?”

“He’s seven years younger than me. He only works part-time. He lives with his dad—hell, he probably sleeps in his childhood bedroom. He doesn’t like kids—”

“So far as you know.”

“—so far as I know, right. And when I met him in a public setting, he pretended not to recognize me. All of this suggests he doesn’t have the emotional maturity I might reasonably be seeking in a mate.”

“He’s good in bed, though, right?”

I turn away and make a point of checking my email.

“Oh, come on. He’s got to be hung like a horse, or you wouldn’t get so excited about these dates.”

“That’s crude.”

“Tell me he has a cocktail weenie, then.”

I’m outraged on Tyler’s behalf. “He doesn’t have a cocktail weenie. He’s…built to scale.”

Lisa fans herself. She saw him at that faculty party, so she knows he’s tall. She knows an awful lot about Tyler, having been my companion on this bizarre journey from the beginning. “If he’s that good, he’s worth going after.”

“Except for all the reasons I just told you, which add up to him not being worth going after.”

“God, you’re such a coward.”

She says it like she means it, not teasing at all, and it makes the hair on my arms stand up.

“What do you mean? I’m not a coward.”

“You are. You know how many dates I’ve been on since we signed up? Twenty-three. I counted them up the other day. I’ve lowered the bar so many times, it’s rolling around in the dirt, and I still haven’t found one guy, not one guy, who made me feel even a tenth as happy as you look every single morning after a date with your weirdo.”

I don’t know what to say to that. It seems like Also, I’m in love with him would be the wrong direction to take the conversation.

“You’re making up excuses not to go for it because you’re scared,” she says. “It’s cowardly. Flat-out.”

“Don’t hold back. Say what you mean, please.”

“Oh, screw you.” She smiles when she says it. “Screw you and your built-to-scale, weirdo boyfriend.

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