Cheater's Regret (Curious Liaisons Book 2) by Rachel Van Dyken

Author:Rachel Van Dyken [Van Dyken, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781477819975
Publisher: Skyscape
Published: 2017-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

AUSTIN

Wine with Thatch. Everything between us had started with wine. Wine and then pizza and then a silly little line where he asked if I wanted to see his comic-book collection. I knew he’d been full of shit, but his personality had been magnetic. I was helpless, caught in his delicious web of sex.

And I’d been a willing victim.

But the guy I’d stumbled into bed with—and the guy I was currently having a nice adult glass of wine with?

Two totally different people.

Gone was the heart-stopping smile he usually chose to hide behind, and in its place, he looked stripped bare. As if he were finally about to lay all the joking aside and reveal some sort of truth.

“So, you wanna talk about it?” I asked, swirling the wine in my glass a few times before taking a slow sip.

“About?” He didn’t make eye contact.

“Tits.”

He spit out his wine in his glass and glared at me.

“Sorry, I couldn’t help it.”

“Try.” His eyes narrowed.

With a laugh, I nodded my head toward the door. “All boobs aside . . .”

He snorted.

“What’s up with this whole bike thing? You looked ready to shit yourself out there, and the Thatch I know is more badass than that, so what gives?”

“I wouldn’t say badass,” he grumbled.

“You’ve swum with sharks—twice—and somehow managed to find a nice loving home for Charlie.”

He burst out laughing. I missed his laugh. It was deep, infectious, just like his smile and the crinkles by his icy-blue eyes. “What makes you think I didn’t just kill him?”

“You save lives, you don’t take them.” I jabbed a finger at him. “Surgeon.”

“Hah.” He set down his wine, and a piece of hair fell out of his sexy-as-hell man bun, kissing his cheek. I was jealous of that strand, actually wanted to rip it from his head and stash it under my pillow and have a good cry.

Okay, no more wine for me.

I scooted my glass far, far away from my body so I wouldn’t give in to temptation.

“Let’s just say bike riding is attached to some really shitty memories, and every time I touch a bike, Dora or not, the memories come back, and I’d really like to keep them locked down, you know?”

Well, that was more information than I had expected.

“That makes sense,” I finally said.

He was quiet.

“So . . .” I just had to fill the silence with my voice, didn’t I? “What’s on the agenda for tomorrow? Ass implants? Penile enlargement? More boobs?”

“How is it that you make my job sound so exciting?” A smile tugged the corners of his mouth. “And sorry to disappoint, but the last penile enlargement I did was a good month ago—we don’t get those often. Most of the guys who come in don’t fully understand the potential side effects.”

“Like ED?”

“How about total impotence? Infection? Losing all sensation and the inability to get a full erection?” He shook his head. “Yeah, not worth it.”

“Well, that just ruins my day,” I said jokingly.

“Tomorrow I have a rhinoplasty,” he said cheerfully.

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