Page 4 of Duty Became Desire

So, instead, I made it known I disliked her as much as she disliked me.

“Look, just play nice, please, Alec? I’m going to need your help with a lot of things pertaining to this wedding. There’s going to be a lot for you and Skylar to do, and I just don’t need you at each other’s throats all the time.”

“Hey, don’t tell me shit, dude,” I told him, parking in the car and handing the keys to the valet. “I know when to back off. You know she eggs the shit on man.”

“I know she does. For whatever reason, the two of you love to push buttons. I just don’t need it tonight.”

“Whatever,” I mumbled, not liking the fact that I got the third degree on this. As if I was always to blame for the shitty attitude Skylar gave me.

“I’m just saying. The two of you sound like an old married couple.”

This time, I slapped his arm as we walked into the bar after paying the cover charge. The ladies were already in a corner booth, waiting for us. As I neared, I saw a tray with shots on it and nearly groaned.

This was going to be a long fucking night.

“Okay, never have I ever….done anything sexual in public.”

I lifted a brow at Demi as she took a shot in answer to her own question, followed up by Skylar and then myself.

That was my fourth one and I was feeling it. But Demi wanted to play ‘Never have I ever’ shot round and I couldn’t tell her no. Neither could Skylar, it seemed.

We were supposed to ask a question, take the shot if needed, and then dance it off so we wouldn’t be so drunk. But by the third question, that rule flew out the window, and now we were onto our seventh question.

“My turn,” Skylar said, looking around the group. “Never have I ever…had sex in a car.”

I clenched my jaw then took the shot, surprised to see that I was the only one.

“Come on, none of you have?” I asked.

“Nope man, car sex was never something that appealed to me,” James said, shaking his head.

“Fine. Here is a good one. Never have I ever kneed a man in the balls,” I stated.

Skylar shot me a glare as she picked up the shot and then tossed it back, making both Demi and James laugh, but I knew that I was the only one lucky enough to have experienced that.

“I like the sex ones better,” Demi stated, wrapping her arm around James and giving him a kiss. “Never have I ever faked an orgasm.”

This time, both ladies took the shot, and I eyed Skylar.

“Really?”

“It seems that I have yet to find a man who can actually do what he proclaims,” she told me, and something twisted inside me.

Without thought, I leaned near her ear, a mischievous grin on my lips. “You should let me fix that,” I whispered, enjoying the shiver she had.

“Never had I ever,” she started, looking straight in my eye, “given someone multiple orgasms with my mouth.”

Keeping the eye contact, I took the shot, making sure she got the hint.

“Damn, Alec knows how to please a woman,” Demi slurred, laughing at the comment. “James, baby, your turn.”

“Never have I ever…wanted to fuck someone against a wall,” he said.

Both Skylar and I reached for the shot glasses, downed them both at the same time and then slammed them on the table.

I blinked a few times as I started seeing double, and then took Skylar’s hand, leading her onto the dance floor. I needed to clear my head for a moment, and it seemed like she had to as well. The shots were fun, but I could easily tell that we were already feeling every inch of them.

Before we knew it, one song turned into three and Demi dragged us off the dance floor to have a couple more rounds. But instead of letting go of Skylar’s waist, I hugged her close tome, barely registering in my drunken haze how she seemed to ground me.

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