Avoiding Commitment (Avoiding #1)(124)

"Well this is all a nice touching reunion, but I need a drink," Chyna said as she wandered away towards the bar.

"I should probably follow her. You never know what…or who is going to happen to Chyna when she is alone," Lexi said extracting herself from the group. As much as she loved Seth and Sandy, it just brought back too many painful memories to be around them especially with Jack only a few feet away. She took one brief glance backwards and saw him staring at her behind as she walked away. She knew that look. It was right before his eyes turned crystal clear blue and his desire began to peak. He wanted her. Right now. It didn't matter where he was at the moment; he just wanted to have her.

Just another reason for her to back away from him. She wasn't sure how well she would be able to resist him when he looked so damn good, and was looking at her like he could devour her whole.

"Chy what am I doing here?" Lexi asked as she reached Chyna and latched onto her elbow.

"Because you want him," she stated simply ordering a round of dirty martinis for them. The bartender almost instantly had the drinks before them. He was cute, roguish looking with a strong jaw line masked by stubble and dark hungry eyes. She smiled at him taking in the way his large, callused hands poured the drinks into triangle-shaped glasses. He pushed the drinks towards her on blue and white napkins. Chyna produced a twenty from her billfold and tossed it into the blue glass tip container. He winked at her. Lexi knew Chyna could have his number any minute now.

"Yeah, you're right. That is what I want," Lexi agreed reaching for the martini.

"Did you say you wanted something?" Ramsey asked coming up next to them. He raised two fingers and nodding at the man behind the bar.

"Uh…yeah. Well I already got my drink," Lexi replied anxiously.

"Steven," Ramsey said in greeting. The two men latching arms across the bar. "Good to see you. It's been awhile. You here now?"

"A couple places now," Steven replied pouring a drinking for Ramsey and sliding it across the table.

"I was wondering where you had gone."

"Wherever the money is."

"Well if you need anything, you let me know," Ramsey told him.

Lexi analyzed the situation before speaking. "Do you know everyone?"

Ramsey chuckled. "Pretty much. It's my job to know everyone."

"Uh huh," she humped. "And what do you do?"

His face turned a few shades lighter at the question, but he quickly recovered "I know people that's what I do," he said sending a full-watted smile her way. Her eyes narrowed at his backhanded way of telling her to back-off. But her curiosity had been peaked, and now she really wanted to know what he did.

For tonight, though, she needed to focus on Jack. It was his big night after all, and she needed to find out what he was actually going to be doing about Bekah. She would be leaving on Sunday for New York, and she needed a more definite answer about what they were going to be. They had talked a few times on the phone since she had fled his apartment, but she hadn't gone to visit him again. Too much temptation in one week wasn't good for her. He had respected her wishes thus far, but she wasn't going to hold her breath that it would continue.

Lexi gritted her teeth as she watched Bekah saunter across the room with a trio of other blonde-headed bimbos. "You know them?" Lexi asked Ramsey nodding her head in their direction.

"Ahh…yes. The fearsome four was what my friends used to call them in high school. They've been inseparable since then too. They all went to Duke, spent four years there, and came back to Atlanta together," he told her knocking back his drink.

The girls stood just a few feet from Lexi as they ordered drinks. She heard them giggling and then eventually began to pick out the voices from each other. She didn't glance their way, but soon learned the gist of the conversation. They were talking about a guy…Jack.

"I wish I could find one like him," a mousy voice squeaked.

"He is so handsome and charming," another girl spoke up. Her voice was more of an alto compared to the last girl.

"And I bet he f**ks great," the last one drawled, her thick southern accent marring her voice and grating on Lexi's eardrums.

Out of the corner of her eye, Lexi could just make out the devilish smirk that played across Bekah's innocent-looking face. "Oh God, he is amazing. Girls I don't think I delve into it enough, but last night was unlike anything I've ever experienced."

Lexi blanched at the words. Jack had been with Bekah last night. She hadn't thought he would stop seeing Bekah, but she certainly hadn't thought he would sleep with Bekah after just promising Lexi they would be together.

"The way he f**ks me," she cooed, "it's really just better than any other guy I've been with."

"Oh no need to be so crude, Bek," the mousy girl retorted giggling.

"I like it," the southern drawl sounded again. "Is he fast and wild? Does he just pound into you? Or is he gentle and smoothing pushing his c**k in and out of you forcing you to scream with pleasure?

"Amber," the mousy girl shrieked, "think about where we are!"

"I was just wunderin'," she replied her accent getting deep and throaty.

"I don't mind talking about it since he does all of the above. Last night he just took me fast and wild like you were talking about Amber. He took me as if I was the only person he ever wanted to be with, as if he was claiming me for his own."