Page 10 of Muse (Fighting Fate)

I sat down on the bed, biting my lip. I wasn’t sure what Kaeli’s response would be when I told her what I’d done. Kaeli wasn’t a virgin like I had been, but she wasn’t miss promiscuous either. Her only experience had been with a guy she’d dated in our junior year, and it wasn’t a pretty one. All you need to know is, it was in the back seat of a car, it was quick, and the pleasure was all his.

I thought about my initiation into womanhood, the way Jace had been so reverent with my body, worshiping it, playing it, making it sing for him. I didn’t know how it could get any better than that.

“Okay, you really need to spill it,” Kaeli demanded in her best no nonsense tone.

I still wasn’t sure what to say. The look on Jace’s face in the kitchen was bothering me. He’d almost looked upset. Was it because he thought I was avoiding him, or was it just because he was worried I was going to tell Aiden?

Kaeli gave an exaggerated clearing of her throat, so I laughed. “Spill what?”

“Something’s going on. I can feel it. It’s big isn’t it?”

Jesus. I sighed. I really wanted to tell her. It was a big moment after all – and it was pretty darned good too. “I slept with Jace,” I said before I could chicken out.

The line was silent for a whole three seconds before I got any response from her. “Slept,” she said cautiously. “As in…had sex…?”

I bit my lip then slowly nodded, forgetting she couldn’t even see me. “Yeah.”

“You gave him your V card?”

Kaeli’s tone of voice was almost comical. I could almost envision her eyebrows disappearing into her hairline. When I didn’t say anything, she exhaled heavily into the phone. “Holy shit.”

I nodded again. “Yeah, you could say that.”

“How the hell did you end up having sex?”

I blushed. Kaeli and I never had these kinds of conversations. Mainly because neither of us ever really dated, but still…

“I have no idea really. He carried me out of the bathroom so I wouldn’t hurt myself on the broken glass, and it kind of just went from there…”

Her silence told me she was all kinds of shocked. “Wait. What? What broken glass?”

Oh yeah, that’s right. Kaeli didn’t know about the avalanche. “Oh, there was kind of an avalanche here last night. Everyone was out, but Jace had to come ba

ck to drop Mark’s car off. I was in the bathroom when a tremor hit and the mirror fell off the wall and smashed.”

“Holy shit. And Jace had to carry you out?”

“Yeah. I think I was in shock. It was kind of scary.”

“And you were naked?”

I could hear the incredulousness in her voice. “One normally is after a shower, Kaeli, but I had a towel on.”

“And he just carried you out and then you had sex?”

I rolled my eyes, but I was smiling. She was such a stirring bitch. “Well, you could probably add in some heated gazes, frantic kisses, and urgent touches, along with a hurried trip down the hall to a bedroom, but yeah, it all led to sex.”

“Jesus. Please tell me it didn’t suck as bad as my introduction to sex. Surely it couldn’t have. I mean Jace looks like he’d be way better than Simon.”

I laughed at that. He definitely did. “It was really nice. He was…I want to say sweet, but he was just…hot.”

I heard movement on the other end of the line and knew Kaeli was sinking down on her bed. “Did it hurt? Was he good to you?”

I almost laughed at her bluntness, but that was just Kaeli. If she wanted to know something, she always just asked. “At first it did, but it kind of went away quickly. He sort of just did it fast. I think that helped.”

“Did you…you know…have an orgasm?”

I smiled. “Twice.” I felt my cheeks heat with a blush. “He…you know…gave me oral first…”

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