A Time for Hope (Lexi, #3)(63)
Sydney leaned back into her chair as she stared off into the distance wistfully. “So I asked if he’d like to come up and well… yeah one thing led to another and before you know it we were both naked on the floor. We didn’t even make it to the bed Lexi. I have to say, he is certainly a talented lad.”
“I’m not sure I want to hear this. It’s like my mind was just shoved into a Hadron Collider.” I involuntarily shivered. “But it’s Dan.” I was unable to get past the fact that the best sex Sydney had ever had was the same guy who skirt-chased anything with a vagina and a pulse.
“Sweetie, I’m under no delusions. We had an outstanding night and he gave me more orgasms in one session than I’ve had in six months, but he is not dating material. Guys like that don’t change and neither of us is looking for anything long-term.” Sydney seemed very sensible in her approach. It’s easy in a post-orgasmic haze to start believing shit you know you normally wouldn’t consider, for example a relationship with Dan Evans.
“Are you going to see him again? I mean, romantically. Obviously you working with me means you are going to see him. Is it awkward?” They hadn’t seemed weird around each other; in fact it was probably the opposite. They had both been relaxed and friendly. That should have been my tip off! Dan had obviously bewitched Syd with his talented tongue and bedroom antics.
“Hell no. Dan was a one-time deal, I’m not going to complicate it any further by going back for seconds, no matter how delicious it was the first time.” Sydney seemed decided that while it had been fun, she wouldn’t be partaking in the Dan ride-o-fun a second time.
“Like I did?” I laughed remembering how my relationship had started with Alex. After realizing we couldn’t keep our hands off of each other we embarked on a casual-sex-with-no-strings relationship. ‘Cause that’s the perfect solution, right? Needless to say while everything workout out for us, I certainly wasn’t the poster child for uncomplicated relationships.
“Ha! Still, and I say this in a totally non creepy way…” Sydney squinted hesitating before she continued. “And I’m not saying I have those feeling now, but it’s just cause he looks the way he does…”
“Sydney just say it, I’m not going to be offended.” I reassured her, knowing whatever she was probably going to say was about Alex. While I couldn’t say I was totally fine with the idea of thousands of women lusting after him, there wasn’t a lot I could do about it; short of chaining him up to the bed, which I must say did have some merit. But in reality, he featured in a lot of other women’s bedroom fantasies. I can’t say that I blamed them, before I’d met him, he’d certainly featured in mine.
“Well I was just going to say that if I’d ever slept with Alex, I couldn’t imagine not going back for seconds. I mean look at him. He looks like a sex god. I still don’t know how you manage to show up for work every day when you have that in bed beside you. Seriously, does he ever look bad?” Sydney bit her lip, slightly embarrassed that she was talking about sleeping with my husband. Meh…whatcha gonna do?
“No, not even first thing in the morning. It’s almost freaky. Even sweaty after a run! I go for a run and I look like an extra in a horror movie, all sweaty with my hair everywhere but with Alex… he just looks, I don’t know… more manly.” It was true, it’s like he didn’t have the capacity to look bad. He was entirely too good-looking, it had overwhelmed me on more than one occasion.
“Well like you don’t want to hear about my extra-circular sextivities with Dan, I don’t want her about how perfect your husband is now there is only one of him. I mean, that’s just not fair!” Sydney declared dramatically. I had no doubt that she was happy that she had managed to deflect any further conversation about her and Dan. I was yet to be convinced there wasn’t more to the story but I really didn’t want to spend any more time visualizing Dan naked with Sydney.
“Alex has a younger brother, you know. He’s super cute too. Christian is in his final year studying medicine at Cornell.” I happily steered the conversation to my wonderful brother-in-law. While we didn’t get to spend much time with him because he had thrown himself solidly into his studies, I completely adored Christian. He was everything my own brother was not; kind, helpful, loving, a decent human being… I could go on.
“And you haven’t set me up on date with him, why? I did meet him briefly at the wedding, but I don’t know much about him.” I wasn’t surprised Sydney hadn’t sized him up on our wedding night, she had been kept occupied by her many tasks as our events coordinator.
“Christian is really reserved. It’s not like he advertises he’s Alex Stone’s brother, he prefers to stay out of the limelight. He is a complete sweetheart though.” There really wasn’t anything bad I could say about Christian. He, like his big brother, was an amazing man. While Christian was well aware of his brother’s lifestyle, he preferred to keep a low profile. He’d been burned in the past by overzealous Power Station fans. Random people would angle for his friendship just so that they could get closer to Alex.
“Well if we survive whatever fate that befalls us tonight, I want a set up,” Sydney bargained, reminding me that we still had to face the abyss of the unknown this evening.
“Let’s get through tonight and take it from there, shall we?” I laughed, unwilling to guarantee Christian’s compliance.