Justice Falling (Falling #3)(14)

“Well you look beautiful. Then again, “Justice” always is the highlight of Gems.”

I rolled my eyes at her use of my stage name. I chose Justice because it was an oxymoron. There wasn’t any justice in having to strip for money.

“Says the perfect size…oh wait what’s that? Oh yeah, the perfect size zero!” I grinned as she pinched my hip. I swatted at her hands.

“So, are you going to tell me about him yet?” Jin leaned back onto her bed, her elbows holding her up. Her long black hair spread like a curtain of glossy ribbon across her pastel sheets.

“Who?”

“The ‘who’ you went out to lunch with the other day.”

“What? How did you know?” I stared at her smiling face through the mirror.

“I’m psychic. Duh!” She rolled her eyes and sat up, crossing her legs. I narrowed my gaze and waited a moment. “Fine. I called to see if you were available at lunch. Rosie, that other office chick, said you had a lunch date.”

Damn Rosie. She was such a busy body. I needed to be careful around her if I was going to keep my private life private. Sighing deeply, I knew I wasn’t going to get out of here until I spilled something about my date to Jin. Besides, I wanted to talk about it. Needed to. The thoughts of Nate, of his kiss, burned and sizzled throughout my day, making it almost impossible to concentrate on work.

“His name is Nate. He’s a lawyer. British.”

“And…” She pressed. I layered on another pound of mascara. “Well, is he hot?”

I slumped down on my bed across from hers and clasped my heated cheeks. “So hot, Jin. I’ve never met anyone like him. He’s incredibly sexy. He’s forceful and confident.” I looked into space remembering the way he pressed me into the elevator wall and kissed me like I was the only woman in the world he wanted to kiss…ever.

“Forceful?” Jin’s eyes narrowed into points. “What do you mean by that?”

“No, no. Don’t get the wrong impression. He’s just…I don’t know. He fills the space in a room. Larger than life. His presence demands attention.”

Jin’s eyes sparkled and a coy grin slid across her lips. “You have a crush on this guy? I’ll be damned. I didn’t think it would ever happen!”

“Oh shut up! I do not have a crush. He’s just a hot guy that I’m going to see at work sometimes. Just because he took me to lunch and kissed me once doesn’t really--”

“He kissed you!” Jin jumped up and landed like an elephant on my tiny bed, making us both bounce. Though certain parts of me bounced more than others and almost bounced right out of the top of the tight corset. “Oh my God, you have to tell me everything. How did it happen? When? Where?”

I took a deep breath then told Jin everything that we discussed at lunch including the freak out when he mentioned Tanner’s bracelet.

“Why did you freak? Does he not like kids?”

“I don’t know. It never came up.”

“Wait a minute. You told him about Tan Man, right?”

I shook my head, shame coating my mood.

“Cam…” her tone warned. “You can’t hide a child from a man you’re interested in.”

I stood quickly, and fiddled with my hair. “I don’t know what’s between us. I’m not hiding anything.” Big. Fat. Lie. Probably one of the first I had ever told my best friend. “I will tell him. If we see each other again. Which, we probably won’t.”

Jin’s lips pinched together and she pointed a finger at me. “Did he ask you out again or say he wanted to see you again?”

I shrugged and grabbed my purse. “I have to go.”

“He did!” She stood and looked me in the eye.

“He might have asked me to dinner, which I declined. Then he said that things were not over between us.” Jin whooped and jumped into the air.

“I knew it. You’re dating a lawyer. What are the odds of that?”

Yeah, great. Jin was leading to the fact that my ex was a rich lawyer, too. “I doubt I’ll see him again.”

“You are so clueless about men, Cam. They don’t take you to lunch, kiss you up against the wall in an elevator at work, and then ask you out and all of a sudden dissolve into thin air. You’ll be hearing from him. Of this I’m certain.” She clucked her tongue and snapped her fingers.

“I’m not sure. I hope you’re right. There’s something about him, Jin. Something that draws me. It’s like I want to be closer to him.”

Jin swung her hips and tipped her head. “Yeah, and it’s called lust, girlie. Pretty soon, sweet Cami’s five year dry spell is going to end. Girl, you’re finally going to get laid!” She smacked me on the ass and helped me shuffle towards the door on my four inch stiletto heels.

On the way to Gems, I started to worry. Jin might be right. If I continued to see Nate, we’d likely end up in the bedroom but what then? I hadn’t been with a man in five long years. Even then I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. I took my cues from Tyler. Not once did I so much as orgasm when we had sex. At least I didn’t recall ever having one. Based on the information I had read, seen in movies, and talked over with Jin, I was pretty certain I’d remember an all-over euphoria that lasted a few seconds to long minutes. Above and on top of that, I surely had never had multiples of them. Maybe I couldn’t orgasm when a man touched me?