Part 28 (2/2)
She moans and not like, in an annoyed way, in a...
”Holy s.h.i.+t, are you guys having s.e.x right now?”
”Cam will be done in two minutes. I'll call you back.”
I drop the phone. ”f.u.c.king gross.”
Laney's laughing now, silent but pure.
”It's not funny.”
She flops on her back, holding her ribs from laughing so hard. I lean over her, take in all her features. I miss her smile, her laugh. Her. I reach up, run a finger across her forehead, move her bangs away from her eyes. I miss those eyes. ”I miss your eyes, your smile.” And without meaning to, I'm running my thumb across her full lips and licking my own and I want to kiss you, Laney.
”Luke,” she whispers, her smile fading. ”We can't.”
”Why not? Are you planning on getting back together with Cooper?”
”No.”
”Then why?”
Her gaze falls between us. ”It has to be different,” she says, and I have no idea what that means. ”And it's too soon.”
”It's too soon” = Throwing a dog a bone.
I ask, ”So a month from now, would you consider going out with me?”
Her smile's back. It's small, but it's there. ”Define going out?”
”A date?”
”One date?”
”Ten. Twenty. Fifty. A hundred! Whatever it takes.”
”In a month's time?” she asks, and she's the fish and I'm reeling her in and I don't even care that I just heard my sister having s.e.x because, in some f.u.c.ked up way, it brought us to this.
”I can wait a month,” I tell her.
”I doubt it.”
”Watch me,” I announce. ”I'm the f.u.c.king Felicity of waiting, and you're my Ben Covington.”
Her eyes go wide, her smile wider. ”Did you just Felicity me?”
I nod, chuckle. ”I'm that good, Lois Lane.”
My phone rings and I blindly answer it, forgetting who it is and what they're calling about because Laney's still looking at me, smiling at me. Then Lucy says, out of breath, ”What am I searching for, c.o.c.kblocker?”
”Kennedy Construction.”
”Not that Cooper a.s.shole?”
”Yep.”
I hear her typing the same time Laney reaches up, combs her fingers through my hair, and I close my eyes. She s.h.i.+fts beneath me until her mouth is to my ear. ”I miss you,” she whispers, and Lucy says, ”Don't say that, Luke. It's so creepy.”
I stifle my laugh and Laney does the same, falling onto her back again.
”Yeah, it's here,” Lucy says. ”Registered business as of... four days ago.”
”s.h.i.+t.”
”Why the urgency on this?”
I come up with a lie. ”I just heard the rumors and wasn't sure if it was true. I'm worried about them running Dad's business to the ground.”
Lucy scoffs. ”They can try, but Dad's been at this for a long time, and he's built a ton of great relations.h.i.+ps with loyal clients. Also, the entire world hates that family... besides Lane of course, but Cooper has that charming, hot, older, bad boy thing going for-”
”They broke up,” I cut in.
She squeals. ”So what's the game plan?”
I smile down at Laney. ”No game plan. I'm just going to do it right next time.”
”There's a next time? s.h.i.+t. I have to go, Cameron's asking for thirds.”
”Thirds?”
Lucy's voice softens. ”Well, he thinks because my chances of getting pregnant are so low, the more s.e.x we have, the better our chances.”
Lane's brow knits, her eyes questioning.
”Makes sense,” I say. ”Enjoy.”
As soon as I hang up, Lane asks, ”Lucy can't get pregnant?”
I nod.
She sits up, forcing me to do the same. ”What happened?”
I try to hide my hurt by looking away because it's painful to think about Cameron and Lucy and what all they went through. Plus, I've never spoken openly about it before. ”Remember last summer, when I went to New Jersey? Lucy was there and something happened and I found her bleeding out on the bathroom floor.”
”Oh my G.o.d,” Lane whispers.
”They rushed her to the hospital and long story short, she had to have an ovary removed and they told her it'd be difficult for her to get pregnant.”
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