There's Only One Bed at Christmas by Jackie Lau

There's Only One Bed at Christmas by Jackie Lau

Author:Jackie Lau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jackie Lau Books
Published: 2021-11-22T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter 7

Caitlin

When I wake up on Christmas Eve, I’m sore. I suppose this is what happens when you have sex twice in one night after not having any at all for more than a year.

It’s a good kind of sore, though. I like that I can still feel Wes between my legs.

I bolt upright in bed. I slept with Wes, after deciding it was the smart and sensible solution to my problems. Oh my God, is stuff going to get strange between us now? How did that possibility not occur to me last night?

I usually think everything through. In excessive detail.

But last night, I just wanted…so I took, and pretended it was sensible.

I don’t have a lot of friends. I still have a few from university, from early in my career, but now that I’m the CEO of a big dating app company, some people act weird around me.

Yeah, ironic that I’m lonely when I run a dating app. We have a friendship app now, too, because some people find that as they grow older, they lose friends (when their friends move across the country or turn out to be bigots, for example) and don’t have anywhere to make new ones. It’s not as big as the dating app, but it’s still doing well.

I’m not on it, though, just like I’m not on Match Me.

Anyway, I don’t have a lot of friends separate from work. Wes is one of them, and now we’ve slept together.

It didn’t mean anything. I don’t think sex ever means anything to Wes, and it’s not like I was looking for more.

Although it was really freaking amazing.

I always thought sex would be best with someone I cared about, but last night proved that theory wrong. It was better than any sex I’ve had with a boyfriend.

Except I do care about Wes. Just not in that way.

Although maybe…

I shake my head. Wes is my friend, end of story, and now it might be awkward between us. Hopefully he’ll know how to bridge that awkwardness—he’s good at things like that.

I look over at him, asleep next to me in bed. Damn, he’s gorgeous. His apartment is a proper temperature now, and he’s got the sheet pushed part way down his bare chest. I remember how I ran my hands all over him last night, and I can’t help a blush from creeping over my face.

How did I not realize how hot he is until last night?

As though feeling my gaze on him, he sleepily opens his eyes. “Hey, Caitlin.” He smiles, doesn’t bolt upright like I did. He doesn’t seem bothered by waking up in bed with me.

“Hey, yourself.”

“You look like you’re freaking out.”

“Who, me?” I laugh, but then I tell him the truth. “I don’t have many friends. I can’t afford to lose the ones I have. And you and I—”

“Shh.” He pushes me onto my back and rolls over me. His cock is heavy between us, and his bare skin feels so good against mine.

How did



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