KeyParty by Jayne Kingston Page B

his cock was huge and I freaked.’ Followed by my abject humiliation as you
laughed for an hour straight.”
    She cracked a smile at that. “It might have only been half
an hour.”
    “One minute is an eternity when you’re waiting for the
ground to open up and swallow you whole.”
    “Speaking of swallowing, I have to ask.” Petra leaned
forward and dropped her voice as though they weren’t alone. “Should they really
be called the foot-long twins?”
    “I don’t know.” She shrugged innocently. “I’ve never seen
Alex naked.”
    “Mmm.” Petra straightened. “Good point.”
    Rachel laughed. “It’s definitely not twelve inches, but
there’s more than enough. I’m sure to Bree everything seems larger than it
actually is.”
    “It’s a big, big world when you’re only five feet tall,”
Petra agreed. She tilted her head to one side. “You understand I didn’t know
Ben was part of the wellness center, right? I didn’t even know there was a
wellness center. All I knew was Jude graduated med school with that hot guy
who’d waved at you when you and I got subs at that place near campus that one
time.”
    Her stomach turned at the thought, but she had to ask. “And
the other times he came to one of your parties? You weren’t trying to set him
up with anyone else?”
    Petra shook her head. “He was a gorgeous extra—sexy and
single. As far as I knew he was a confirmed bachelor, which made him a perfect
player. Once Jude finally talked him into coming that is. When you came home I
thought I’d give it a shot and set you up. Even if you didn’t hit it off, I
figured you’d at least get the chance to finally fuck him.”
    Rachel pressed a hand to her stomach to quiet the
butterflies that took flight en masse and ignored her nipples as they
tightened.
    “Are you aware you’ve made two fuck-buddy matches this last
time around?”
    Petra went still.
    “Apparently Alex and Bree decided to continue playing this
past week as well,” Rachel continued. “They came back to Ben’s apartment
together after work at least one morning that I know of.”
    She looked away and swallowed hard, then waved dismissively.
“That won’t last long. Bree’s attention span is too short and Alex is never
going to settle down.”
    “Didn’t you say the same thing about Ben once upon a time?”
    “I told Bree I’d never heard about him having a serious
girlfriend. Bree was the one who turned it into him never settling down.” She
pulled the elastic out of her hair and smoothed her already perfect
ponytail—the equivalent of a nervous tic for Petra. “I don’t know Ben well
enough to say whether he’s the marrying kind or not.”
    “But if we hadn’t hit it off it would be no harm, no foul,
right?”
    Petra finished rewrapping her hair with a snap of the
elastic.
    “You’re more combative today than usual. It’s pretty sexy.”
    “So, what makes you more of an expert on Alex, anyway?”
    “He’s my Lexi.” She said it as if that was all the
explanation needed. “We work together. He goes to foreign movies and eats sushi
with me when no one else will. He’s practically one of my best girls.”
    “Except he’s six and a half feet of all-male redhead.”
    “It’s a lot of fun to watch him eat with chopsticks.”
Petra’s eyebrows wiggled over top of her sunglasses. “He’s so big you wouldn’t
expect him to be graceful, but he has very nimble fingers.”
    And just like that, evasive Pete was back.
    Rachel was tempted to pry, to ask why Petra had just come as
close to playing the jealous girlfriend as Rachel had ever seen her—over a man
who was not her live-in boyfriend—but she wasn’t sure she wanted the answer.
    Petra picked up her water bottle and took a long drink.
Without seeing her eyes, Rachel could tell she was studying her through her
dark sunglasses. “Was I right about you and Ben?”
    Rachel sighed. “I really like him, but I don’t know that it
would last even if we didn’t