Ana looked around her apartment and sighed before flopping down on the couch. It was exactly one month to the day since Cole had broken up with her. Or, more importantly, one month to the day since she’d lost her virginity in the back of a seedy bar.
She and Kate had gone to Hawaii on her honeymoon, and after those two weeks were up, they’d parted ways—Kate flying back home to Washington and Ana to Georgia to spend a few weeks with her mother. The time she’d spent there seemed to drag on and on, and Ana’s cheeks flushed as she remembered why.
Since sleeping with Miller, there hadn’t been a single morning she’d awoken without a puddle between her thighs. Her body ached to be touched, and though she’d tried to quell the feeling it wasn’t something she could help. She certainly couldn’t go back to the bar and pick someone else up! She wouldn’t even know where to start! But she couldn’t help but wonder…if she went back, would he be there? It was a possibility, but if he was, he probably wouldn’t want to see her. She’d saved them both a lot of discomfort by skipping out before he’d woken up. There had been more than enough ‘mourning’ after stories from Kate; Ana didn’t need one of her own.
But what if she had stayed? Would he have fucked her again? She winced at the thought that she might have missed out on something. He had mentioned her being on top, but it hadn’t happened. Her eyelids fluttered closed and her breath caught as she imagined what it would have been like…very slowly, very deliberately lowering herself down onto him. Her hands found her breasts and she clutched them through the thin fabric of her cotton t-shirt, moving them in slow circles. When her vision had her fully seated on him, buried deep inside of her, her lower body clenched and her eyes flew open in misery. “Dammit!” she hissed in frustration.
She jumped up from her spot on the couch and headed for the stand by the door. One hour home and already she couldn’t stand herself! This was ridiculous. She reached into her purse, pulled her cell phone out, and found Kate on her call log. She hit send and it was a few rings before she answered.
“Hello?”
“Hey. Are you up for some shopping?” Ana snapped into the phone.
“So…when you said shopping, I had no idea this was what you meant,” Kate said as she looked around the little shop. They were the only two customers in the store.
Ana sighed. “Can you help me?” she asked.
“Of course I can help you,” Kate scoffed. “I just…Ana, are you sure you want to give your virginity to a little piece of plastic?” she whispered.
Ana grinned as she picked up the light purple plastic dong next to her and held it up. “No. I want to lose it to a big piece of plastic,” she said teasingly.
Kate pulled the toy from her hand and thrust it back on the shelf. “That one would break you in two!” she said wide-eyed.
Ana’s lips twitched as she considered that. Miller certainly hadn’t broken her in two, and he’d been way bigger than that thing. But he’d known what he was doing…without the force of his hips behind it, Ana wasn’t sure she’d have the courage to penetrate herself with something so large. “Maybe we could go back to that club this weekend,” she said conversationally.
“What club?” Kate asked distractedly as she studied a fluorescent green vibrator with a bulbous head. “I have that one in blue,” she muttered.
“The one…we…went to the night before we went on my honeymoon,” Ana said casually.
Kate turned to look at her. “Why would you want to go back there?” she asked. “You left after like…five minutes. I thought you didn’t like it.”
Ana shrugged. “I don’t know. I just…I think that now that I’m more…over Cole it would be more fun.”
Kate quirked a brow at her friend. “Sure. I’ll go back to the club with you,” she said. “If you’ll do me a favor.”
“What?” Ana asked shrewdly; Kate’s favors usually involved antics of some sort.
“I’m meeting a friend for dinner tonight—“
“Ahhh…the infamous Elliot,” Ana surmised.
Kate nodded. “His brother is going to be there, and…I really would like it if someone I knew was there, too.”
“You’re setting me up?” Ana asked in disbelief.
“God, no!” Kate exclaimed, then took a deep breath. “Look, I didn’t want to have to tell you this because I don’t know if it’s pouring salt on the wound but…Elliot’s brother is gay.”
“Oh,” Ana said dryly. “Imagine that. Me being set up with a gay man.”
“It’s not a set up,” Kate insisted.
Ana sighed. “Is his brother’s boyfriend going to be there? Because if he is…I don’t want to be a fifth wheel!”
Kate shook her head. “His brother is actually still in the closet.”
Ana took a deep breath. “Fine. Dinner with Elliot and his brother tonight…and the club tomorrow.” Her heart skipped a beat in anticipation.
Kate nodded. “Deal! Oh!” She picked up a turquoise colored vibrator that looked awfully small to Ana. “This is the one.”
“It is?” Ana asked doubtfully. It didn’t look like the one to her.
Kate nodded fervently. “It’ll help break you in. Oh, you should get some lube, too!”
“OK,” Ana agreed as she grabbed the light purple dong that Kate had insisted was too big for her. “But I’m getting this one, too. Just for kicks.”
Kate checked the price. “It’s on sale,” she commented.
Ana grinned. “More bang for my buck,” she joked, eliciting a laugh from Kate. “Hey—what’s behind that curtain?” She’d only taken a few steps when Kate grabbed her by the hand and spun her around.
“Something that would make your eyeballs pop out of your head,” she informed Ana.
“We’ve taken the picture from the security camera and checked it with every piece of identification on the west coast again as you requested, Mr. Miller,” Taylor informed his boss.
Eric took a deep breath, and then exhaled slowly as he put his hands in his pockets. His gaze moved to the window, sweeping over the Seattle skyline. “There’s nothing else we can do,” he said through clenched teeth. All of his men were looking for her. How hard could it be to find one woman? It was like she’d fallen off the face of the Earth.
“No, Mr. MIller. I’m sorry.”
Eric nodded. “Thank you,” he said dismissively.
Once alone, he ran a hand through his hair and let out a shaky breath. What was it about this woman that drove him senseless? He didn’t even know her last name, for God’s sake. But her eyes…those crystal blue eyes bore into him every time he closed his eyes. He groaned as he remembered her head tossing against his chest when she’d brought herself to climax in the shower.
It was a bitter pill to swallow…knowing there were some things even he couldn’t have. But it had been a month…if she was able to be found…surely he would have located her by now. It was time to resign himself to the fact that he was never going to see his Ana again.
With a heavy sigh, he went to get ready for dinner with his brother.