Beside him she stirred, and he made certain the log that was his burning cock was nowhere near her body. She gave a little groan and sat up next to him, scrubbing her hands down her face. He felt that gesture as one arm slid against his.
“Oh no, I did it again. I fell asleep in your bed, Gedeon. And you’re awake again.” Her hand touched his face. “What is it this time?”
He was tempted to lie again, but she wasn’t believing the lies he fed her. Deliberately, he took her hand and placed it over his bare, hot, swollen cock. The monster jumped and jerked the moment there was contact with that small, soft palm. “I can’t go this long without sex.”
He expected her to pull her hand away and leap out of the bed, but she was Meiling, and she always did the unexpected. “Poor baby. That does give you a problem, doesn’t it?” There was amusement in her voice. She patted his cock a bit irreverently and lifted her hand away.
Women found his cock amazing. Magnificent. She just patted it like he was a schoolboy with his first-time erection. She didn’t seem to understand the dire situation. “I don’t suppose you would want to take care of it?”
“Nice offer, but no thanks.” She was already sliding off the bed.
He couldn’t lose her. She’d go sleep somewhere and he’d sit there alone, losing his mind, in pain, with a useless rock-hard cock that she put there.
“Lotus, give me a break.”
“What do you normally do in this circumstance?”
There was laughter in her voice. He’d give anything to see her facial expression. There was something about just being close to her that got inside of him and turned him inside out.
“I go to the club and find a woman to take care of the problem.”
“At least you agree it is a problem.”
How could he want to laugh when he hurt like hell? More, he was relaxing, and so, damn it, was his cock. “The only thing we can agree on is that you refused to help me when I was in dire straits. I thought you were a generous person.”
“Did you really believe I was just going to give you a blow job?”
“Well . . . yeah. I go to the club and there are a hundred women who vie for the honor. At least a hundred. Maybe more. I don’t have to ask, Lotus, they stand in line.” He was fairly certain he got an eye roll from her.
“Do you have any idea how incredibly spoiled and arrogant you are? I hope you scrub that thing clean after putting it in all those mouths. If you can’t make it to the club and you’re in a bad way, what do you do then?”
“I call Rene and he brings me a woman.”
There was a short silence. “Sheesh, Gedeon. You turned your friend into a pimp. That’s so wrong. Why can’t you pick up the phone and get yourself a woman? Don’t you have a little black book or something? Your contact list is full and then some, but I didn’t find women listed.”
“You snooped in my contacts?”
“Naturally, but you’ll have to reprimand me later. I’m trying to help you here.”
“How? Were you thinking of procuring a woman for me?”
“I considered it, but I think it best if you do it. It’s the manly thing to do. You shouldn’t wake Rene for this. You need to learn to make those calls yourself.”
So much for Meiling pining away for him. That suppressed laughter in her voice was at his expense. He should be annoyed with her, not wanting to laugh with her.
“The doctor said I wasn’t to have sex.”
Meiling must have paused at the door. She sounded as if she was at the door, that distance away, although he hadn’t heard her, not even a whisper of sound. “You sneak. He seriously told you no sex and you’re trying to get me to give you a blow job behind his back.”
“I wouldn’t have let you.”
“You are a bald-faced liar,” she accused.
That was the honest truth—he was. He burst out laughing. “Do you want to go to the Café Du Monde with me? It’s a nice walk. We could grab coffee and sit by river and watch the sun come up.”
“We could grab coffee, sit by the river and I could watch the sun come up. You would have to wear the special glasses sent to you by the doctor. You remember him. And then there’s the other one, the doc who said no sex.”
He took the opportunity to get up and find his clothes. He’d named a local hangout that was a favorite of his in the hopes she would want to go with him.
“You do know you’re physically superb, Gedeon. It isn’t any wonder those women throw themselves at you. At the same time, you seem to think the responsibility is all theirs when it comes to sex with you. They may have certain expectations.”