Page 69 of Pucking Your Best Friend

She blinked, perplexed, and then shrugged. “I don’t know! Because it would probably interest her?”

“Oh, it does,” Lucy said, feigning seriousness. “Very much so. Tell me more.”

“Stop talking right now,” Dax exclaimed loudly.

“Oh shit,” Matt muttered, pressing a hand to his eyes.

“Why exactly am I here?” Jack demanded loudly. “I don’t want to be here.”

“It’s no big deal! That’s why I’m telling you!” Maddie stated emphatically. “It was a one-time thing. It doesn’t change anything. I just didn’t want it to remain a secret. To make it easier. So that nobody goes making a mountain out of a molehill.”

Matt pressed his lips together and gritted his teeth. He had a strong feeling that Maddie was that nobody, that she wasrevealing it so she could pretend their night together was just a funny anecdote — not the best damn sex they’d ever had.

How the hell could she get him into such a mess? She must have known what he was going to have to listen to, as a result! Why didn’t she discuss it with him if they were going to reveal it or not — then he would have quickly made his point:Shit, no!

“Just out of curiosity,” Lucy said in a conversational tone, “is Matt more of a mosquito or an elephant?”

“Lucy!” Dax replied sharply.

“I’m just curious.”

“Don’t say another word, Maddie,” Matt growled.

“Dude.” Jack looked at him, shaking his head. “I meant that you should talk to her! Notsleepwith her!”

Dax and Maddie immediately turned to him. “You talked about it?” both shouted at the same time, equally shocked.

“No, we didn’t,” Matt said harshly. “Not directly, at least.” Angry, he turned to Maddie, “And you seriously accusemeof TMI?”

Maddie sighed heavily. “I don’t understand why everyone’s freaking out. Like I said, it’s no big deal.”

“Matt’s mosquito or your night together?” Lucy wanted to know with interest.

Matt’s jaw cracked loudly. “Just shut up, Lucy.”

“Hey, don’t talk to her like that,” Dax replied angrily, and then added more softly to Lucy, “you should probably just stop talking.”

She flipped him the bird and glanced at Maddie again. “I’m so glad you were open about it, Maddie. Really. Very!”

Uncertain, Maddie shrugged. “Well, you can’t blame me for not opening up anymore.”

“You’re absolutely right,” her sister said with a grin. “With Clemens, you didn’t tell me until nine months later that there was a guy you were sleeping with.”

Clemens. That name again. Who was that guy? And how did Lucy go from Maddie sleeping with him to her ex-boyfriend so quickly? He didn’t like that.

He didn’t like the whole situation!

“I honestly didn’t think you’d be so surprised,” Maddie said. “I mean you two have been having one-night stands with half of Los Angeles all along.” She gestured between Lucy and Dax. “Why is it something crazy between us now?”

“Maddie,” Matt murmured pleadingly, but Lucy drowned him out.

“It’s not! We were just…caught off guard,” she replied lightly. “So, you had sex. How was it?” She looked innocently at Matt.

He snorted loudly. There wasn’t even the slightest chance he would say anything about it. And Maddie would never…

“Oh, Matt is incredibly good in bed,” Maddie stated matter-of-factly. “But I expected that. He has pure instinct. In everything he does.”

“God, kill me now,” Jack muttered, then grimaced and added, “I wish I believed in God.”

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