Page 18 of Yours
Chapter 6
Scott
Most awkward first date ever, and I’d had a lot of them.
I wasn’t sure where the fabulous chemistry had gone, but it was completely different than our first meeting at the bar. Hell, even our text messages had more passion and connection than the date we were on.
I couldn’t help but think that Ryan and I were to blame.
I’d always heard the expression it takes two to tango…well, three in this case…and I didn’t fault Dare. He’d been honest about what he was looking for and how he wanted to get to know us. Ryan and I hadn’t been as honest.
Pretending Ryan didn’t know what I wanted wasn’t making the date easier and him pretending not to know only seemed to be making it harder on him. Neither of us were this awkward, and I knew a huge part of it was all the things we weren’t willing to talk about.
That didn’t mean I was going to bring it up at dinner, though.
If we somehow got a second date with Dare, things needed to change or we’d never see where it could go. He’d made it clear he only wanted to dominate someone who was willing, and I probably didn’t seem very willing at that moment.
We…
I glanced over at Ryan who was sharing a story about one of his coworkers. “I honestly think the guy’s drunk. I’m not sure what to do about it. He gets nothing done and is constantly losing his mind over stupid shit, but lately he’s smelled like booze at eight AM. I don’t know if my boss is just ignoring it or is too clueless to figure it out. Stepping in the middle of it seems like a bad idea, because how can they not know?”
He already knew my feelings on it, so I let Dare handle this one. Maybe Ryan would listen to him. As I listened to Dare commiserate but tell him yes, he really did need to go to management, my mind started trying to sort things out again.
We…
I’d said it several times, to myself, and to Ryan when we were getting ready for the date.Wewere dating Dare…as long as dinner didn’t scare him off out of pure boredom. But he was smiling and he’d leaned forward to talk, so that had to be a good sign. It was one of those tells that I looked for in new client meetings, so I kept reminding myself he wasn’t expecting crazy and fabulous on a first date.
Especially, a first date with people who’d never had a threesome and where one was hiding something.
I was going to have to talk to Ryan. There was no way around it.
I just wasn’t sure how to tell him.Hey Ryan, do you remember how Dare was flirting in the club…well he was talking about my wanting to be dominated in bed.
Yeah, that would go over brilliantly.
No, Ryan had never been the type to criticize other people for what they wanted, and I couldn’t see him starting to just because I’d confessed something…different. Well, not that different. I might not have been the typical image of someone who wanted to submit, but it wasn’tthatoutside the box anymore.
At least, that was what I kept telling myself.
After another minute, Dare pushed back from the table and said he needed to use the bathroom. As Dare walked toward the back of the room, Ryan leaned back in his chair and sighed. “We’re really boring. Why does he want to date us?”
“Because he finds attractive, awkward guys hot?” Aside from the submissive thing, which I wasn’t ready to talk to Ryan about, I wasn’t sure why Dare was settling for us. There had to be other guys who caught his eye.
Ryan snorted but nodded in agreement. “You’re probably right.” Then he grinned. “But I think that’s the first time you’ve called me hot. I like it.”
I tried not to laugh, but he was too full of himself not to. “You live just to annoy me, don’t you?”
“Of course, what are friends for?”
“Being my wingman instead of the competition?” That would have been so much easier.
Ryan didn’t take offense. “I’m not sure it’s competition when he wanted us both. Besides, this way we won’t fight over who gets him.”
“He’s not the last Oreo in the package.” Ryan had proven to be a thief when it came to food.
He rolled his eyes, but didn’t seem sorry. “You are going to harp on that forever.”
I nodded, not even bothering to deny it. “Yep. You still haven’t bought me more like you keep promising.”
