Page 54 of Get A Fix

“Me too.”

“You too what?” I moved then, sitting beside him, stretching my legs out, sliding my arm under his so I could hold his hand.

He looked at me. “I only want two people in bed.”

“Okay, good. Then we’re agreed.”

“What if I had screwed that guy in the past and you came in and he was naked in the bed? What would you think then?”

“Is this a question for future me?”

“No, I—what would you have thought if he was here in the bed, naked like he was, and you walked in?”

“Are you naked in another room in this scenario?”

“No. I’m not here at all.”

“Okay. Well, I suspect it would have gone the same way it did now.”

“So you wouldn’t be mad at me? You wouldn’t leave me?”

An idea was forming in my head. “This is what you were telling me about before, isn’t it? When your guy found an old fuck buddy in your bed.”

He nodded.

“And when you tried to explain, your guy wasn’t buying it.”

“No.”

I leaned my head on his shoulder. “Well, I do. We’ve been open and upfront with each other from the start, so we just need to keep doing that. Together.”

“Yes, together,” he agreed, lifting my hand to kiss my knuckles.

“But we do need to strip that bed because God knows what kinda cooties Robert had.”

“Robert?”

“Yeah. I checked his ID.”

“Why?”

“Because I need to follow up with the person he got the keycard from.”

“I didn’t even think about that.”

“That’s why you have me.”

“Yes.”

“I also think you were focused on what I was going to think and do and not so much concerned with Robert.”

“I really was,” he replied, his voice thready.

“Well, don’t be.”

He nodded. “I love that you trust me.”

“Why wouldn’t I?”