Page 81 of Loved

I don’t think I’d ever seen Rob look so excited. Well, except for when he was playing a prank on someone.

“I didn't really think you had the balls to cut that cord."

I laughed.Yeah, me too.Apparently I just needed to sober up to grow a pair.

"Okay, wow. So, we should probably start over," Rob said to Penny.

"Yeah." Penny smiled and stuck her hand back out to Rob. "Let's just pretend that didn't happen."

Rob laughed. "No, actually that's a great story. I can't wait to tell people I thought my brother's new girlfriend was a prostitute. And it's a compliment really. You're hot. I'm sure you get that all the time."

Her cheeks flushed even more. "Only recently."

I tightened my grip on her shoulder. Rob was an incorrigible flirt, I knew that. But I wasn’t loving him flirting with Penny. What was he doing? I hadn’t liked anyone in a really long time. And I couldn’t remember if he’d always flirted with girls I’d liked or if this was a new annoying trait he’d developed overseas.

Rob laughed again. "She's funny. And young.” He looked her up and down. “You look really young. How old are you?"

Oh screw me.He was going to give me so much shit about this. I’d been so adamant about the fact that I hadn’t started teaching to hook up with hot students.

"Twenty,” Penny said.

Rob stared at her for a second and then looked back at me.

I shrugged. What else could I do? It wasn’t like I was going to be able to keep it a secret from him that Penny was my student.

"Oh shit! Don't even say it. She's your student, isn't she? Oh my God, this is golden. The perfect son is fucking one of his students? I love it. Do Mom and Dad know?"

"Okay, we need to talk for a second,” I said and let go of Penny’s shoulder. I walked toward the living room, grabbing Rob's arm on the way.

"Does he get mad at you a lot too?" Rob yelled over his shoulder. "I bet that makes things exciting in bed."

"Shut up," I said and pulled him out of earshot of Penny.

“I’m so confused. I thought you weren’t going to hook up with any of your sexy students.”

“I didn’t plan to. And I met her before classes started.”

“You’ve talked to me since classes started.” He gave me a very stern look. Which was just funny because he was never stern.

“Trust me, when she showed up in one of my classes, I tried to be on my best behavior.”

“And clearly failed.”

Yeah, I had nothing to say to that.

“You told me you had a surprise for me, though,” Rob said. “Where is it?”

“Penny was the surprise.”

“But Penny’s not a prostitute. So…that’s hardly a surprise forme.”

I laughed. “I thought you’d be happy for me.”

“I’d be happier if I was getting head from a prostitute right now.”

“Fair. By the way, Ellen’s going to be annoyed that you pretended you didn’t know who she was.”

Rob laughed. “Ellen would never be mad at me. I’m her favorite.”

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