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"I see" She nodded slightly

"Friends with benefits if you will" I nodded, pleased at the conversation "Or rather, best friends with benefits"

"You’re not going to mess around with anyone else are you?" She frowned and I felt ain I wasn’t sure why she wanted to have this conversation right now, but I couldn’t just walk away and ignore her

"I’ to hook up with anyone else"

"Good" She s you haven’t been with anyone in a while as well I know that sounds cheesy, but it helps that I don’t feel like sloppy seconds"

"You could never be sloppy seconds" I ran hed inwardly I felt like I should tell her about Penelope, but I wasn’t sure how she would react It was before we had hooked up, but not very much before And Penelope was her friend I didn’t feel like she would appreciate the fact that we’d nearly had sex

"I’ all crazy and into Rhett panic mode" She smiled and leaned forward and stroked the hair by my ears Her eyes arm and she looked happy and content "I know this is new for both of us, but I really think that this could be good for both of us"

"Let’s not talk about it anyain "I’d rather be doing so else" I reached down and cupped her breast and sainst my lips as I pinched her nipple

"Yes, Cleers et out of this car" She o back home" I nibbled on her lower lip "I can turn around now"

"No" She moaned and pulled back, her eyes filled with lust "No, we’re going to go and see your hed and pulled away "Your loss"

"Maybe later" She bit her lower lip and looked away

"Maybe later, what?" I froze and looked at her I could see her face burning red and my ck hardened as I stared at her hard nipples

"Maybe we can move to the next level" She turned towards me and smiled shyly

"Next level?" My eyes narrowed as I looked at her "Are you saying what I think you’re saying?"

"Maybe" She so to a hotel I don’t want to do it in your house"

"Why not?"

"I don’t want to do it somewhere you’ve done it with someone else"

"Oh" I tried not to rolltored "I just don’t want to be another notch"

"You could never be another notch" I frowned and shifted My entire body was buzzing with anticipation I wasn’t sure this was a good idea, but I knew I couldn’t say no to her

"I’lad to hear that" She said softly and reached over and ran her fingers down the bulge in led as I grabbed her hand and made her squeeze my cock

"I’m hard as hell" I winked at her "And yes you did that" I felt her squeezing et this reunion over and done with I’o and find a Marriott"

"You don’t even want to see your mom, do you?" She looked at me with a sad look in her eyes and I shook my head At the end of the day, Cle to lie and pretend that I thought this was going to be soet it over with" I started the engine again and pulled back onto the road My thoughts drifted away from Clemmie and back to my childhood I could remember the day that I ca was different I’d been young enough to not really understand as going on right away, but old enough to feel the full extent of loss and loneliness My father hadn’t been of any help All he’d said was that my mother had left us for alcohol It didn’t seeht I’d waited for my mom to come home or to call me, but she didn’t I hadn’t understood what had happened until I hit my teen years And then my heart was already pretty empty and jaded Love didn’t exist to me, asides from Clementine and her family They’d taken els in my life and if it wasn’t for theone down Cle, so caring, so open, so honest and genuine about everything She’d been quiet when I needed silence, talked when I needed noise and filled the empty space in my life that had taken over I didn’t want to see e that there was still an eive I just wanted to forget

"It’ll be okay, Rhett"

"We’ll see" I sighed

"I’ll be with you" She touched e at her touch this time I welcomed the fact that she was here As my friend I didn’t want to think about all the other stuff It was almost too much Too close to ho with Clementine intiht existed A side that let pain in, that let fear in I didn’t want to let those etoo fast I was on the roundabout of life and I just wanted it to stop I wanted to reverse tio back to the ti and we bothout and just be "But then you never would have tasted her" A little voice whispered in my ear It was true that while a part of es in e Another part of me was ready to see what else life had to offer

We pulled up to a small-dilapidated house and I turned to Cleht address?"

"I’m sure" She nodded

"Hot out of the door slowly and looked around The roof was les and looked like it was in serious need of being replaced The front of the house had peeling white paint and the yard as overgrown This wasn’t where I expectedI wasn’t sure why she would have left my father and his mansion in Charleston to come and live in a dump in Beaufort, alcohol or not My father had led me to believe that she’d cared more about alcohol and his spousal payments than ine that she could have spent all the ave her on alcohol? It didn’t make sense

"Are you ready?" Cleoing to be fine"

"We’ll see" I sighed, all of a sudden feeling apprehensive "I don’t know about this Clemmie" I was about to walk back to the truck, e heard the front door open and a big black Labrador ca out and over to us

"Jinized her voice right away It hadn’t changed one iota It was ’s face as he licked erly I didn’t want to look up and see e that she was here