Page 121 of The Hookup
“I’ll be the first in the list.” Max grinned. “What about you?” she asked, turning to Kay. “Are you desperate to have a baby?”
Her question took Kay completely taken by surprise. “Errr… no.” She shook her head vehemently. “No.Definitely no. I don’t even have a boyfriend.”
“You don’tneeda boyfriend,” Max shot back. “A sperm donor can do the job just as well.”
Kay felt herself blushing.
“Kay’s on a man-free diet,” replied Savannah proudly.
“Aman-free diet,huh?” Max asked with interest. “I highly recommend them.”
“She’s definitely a heterosexual, Max,” said Savannah, intervening.
“Why a man-free diet?” Max asked.
Kay paused, and hoped that Savannah wouldn’t be able to see through her. “Savannah suggested I try that because of all the bad relationship choices I seem to always make.”
“Boy, was that a true statement.” She swallowed, knowing that she was as guilty as ever, and that she hadn’t learned her lesson at all.
“Bad choices?” Max looked intrigued.
Now she was stumped. “Well…I …I think I tend to rush into things.”
She could see Savannah nodding her head in agreement, “and I had this idea about how a guy would be, you know, when I fixed him and made him perfect, and so I didn’t really care too much what he was like upfront.” Something about the way Max gave her all her attention, about the way she leaned forward, listening, made her feel not so bad about spilling her guts. She had held all of this back for weeks, and it seemed easier to tell someone who wasn’t so close to her, than it was to tell someone like Savannah.
“Do you think you projected your ideal of what he wassupposedto be like on him?”
“I’m not sure. Maybe. When he didn’t fit that ideal, I ditched him, or he ditched me. It didn’t usually take that long.”
“I thought taking a break from dating might do her some good,” Savannah chimed in.
“And has it?” Max asked, looking rather dubious. Kay shivered, feeling slightly uneasy, as if Max could read her mind.
“I’ve been too busy at work to even think about guys.” She forced a wide smile, hoping to convince them.
Max looked up as Briony returned, but Savannah looked at her as if she didn’t believe her.
“Did you invite Izzy?” Kay asked, even though she already knew the answer to her question. She was eager not to have the limelight on her any longer.
“I did,” replied Savannah, “but she’s busy, too. She said she had exams.”
“She could have come for a couple of hours,” Kay retorted. She had been looking forward to chatting to Izzy, because maybe she could have gotten the low down on Xavier, and by extension, Luke.
“She thinks we’re too old for her. I mean she’s still a student, isn’t she?” asked Briony. “Maybe she felt out of place.”
“I doubt it was that. She’s mature for her age,” replied Savannah, “And she’s a good laugh. You’d be surprised.”
“She probably had better things to do,” suggested Max, in a sultry voice. “Maybe she’s spending the weekend with her boyfriend.”
Kay looked up in surprise. This was news. “Who’s her boyfriend?”
“They’re speculating,” replied Savannah. “They don’t know for sure.”
“She’s got an internship at Stone Enterprises,” said Briony. “Tobias mentioned it.”
“She has?” Kay asked. This was a surprise. She hadn’t seen that coming at all. “An internship at Tobias’s company?” Clever girl for managing to snag one of those.
“I noticed that she got on well with one of the bartenders at your wedding,” said Max.
