“Chill Chloe I wouldn’t leave you here on your own.” Freddie replied stroking up and down my arm.
Luca gave a low growl and stormed out of the house slamming the door.
“The doors in this house must have the best hinges ever, they only ever get slammed.” I moaned.
“Damn girl, you sure have riled him up this time. What’s been going down between you two?”
I had to hold myself back from saying it was Luca who’d been going down on me. I wasn’t ready to impart that secret to anyone right now though, but when I did Freddie would be the first I’d tell.
Chapter 17
Day five post Luca and that fateful night, and things were still pretty tense and miserable in the house. Freddie provided a welcome distraction, but I was growing impatient with the lack of attention coming from the man himself.
That morning, I had sneaked down the end of Luca’s garden to take a walk along the beach. The fresh sea air and sounds of nature helped ground me and bring a certain sense of calm that had been sadly lacking in my life lately. I sat on the sand watching the waves and let myself just be, no dramas, no moody men and no restrictions, just me and the beach. Perfect.
“Hey you.” A gentle, friendly voice called out behind me.
Gina had her shoes dangling from her left hand as she came over to sit next to me.
“Hi Gina, you okay?”
“Yeah I’m good Chloe, looks like you aren’t doing so good though.”
“I’m better today than I have been for a while, don’t worry about me.”
I bent my knees to tuck them under my chin and sighed.
“So I’m gonna just come out with it; I came over because I’m guessing you could use a friend right now.”
“It’s nice of you to come over Gina, and I could use all the friends I can get right now, but what makes you say that?”
She looked straight ahead biting her lip then glanced back at me.
“Don’t take this the wrong way okay but Luca likes sex.”
“Don’t all guys?” I smirked, but my tummy sunk, what the hell was she going to tell me?
“Yeah I know, but Luca…he’s kind of…I don’t know…highly active? Anyway, he rang me a few days ago saying he needed my services.”
Oh God here it comes, I was going to have another delightful episode of Luca flaunting his manliness and his women in front of me.
“He asked me to hook him up, but then he never turned up. Chloe he never showed up that night and now he’s ignoring my calls. So I?
?m putting two and two together and guessing somethings happened between you two. Am I right?”
“You could say that.” I stared straight ahead at the waves not wanting to see the look in her eyes.
“That’s what I thought, and I’m guessing things aren’t all smooth sailing right now. He can’t bring himself to cheat on you but he needs you at the same time.”
“We’d need to be in a relationship for him to cheat on me.”
“Seems like it’s a relationship in his mind. Remember men don’t think the same way as us Chloe. We are the smarter sex after all.” She said gaily.
“Aint that the truth.” I looked across at her now to see humour and kindness in her eyes.
I took a deep breath and dived in at the deep end, “we slept together a few days ago but things ended well…badly.”
“Badly how? Did you push him away?”