Razor laughed.
“Is it wrong I want to ask if you had to get tested?”Eden asked.
He chuckled.“Not at all, and no, I didn’t have to get tested.”
“So, you’re not here with anyone, are you?”She frowned.“I know this is crazy to ask you now, when I’ve spent most of the night dancing with you.”She couldn’t help but glance around the room, hoping not to find another woman glaring at her.
“Babe, I wouldn’t come to the bar with one woman and dance with another.”
“You wouldn’t?”Eden asked.
“Fuck, no, that shit stinks of disrespect, and I don’t disrespect my woman.Not ever.”
“I think I’m going to like you, Razor.”She held her bottle up to his, and they clinked.
“He did that to you, didn’t he?”Razor asked, after a couple of seconds.
She pursed her lips, then licked them after taking a final swig of her beer.It was kind of mortifying.“Yeah, he did.”
“Son of a bitch.”
“And I didn’t even have a clue he was cheating with her.It was at this bar.He rarely brought me here, but as we were waiting for our food order, a woman approached, I didn’t quite hear what she said, and he said he was just going to dance.”She shrugged.“I wasn’t feeling well, which is why I didn’t want to dance.I felt kind of guilty because a lot of people were dancing, and I don’t know, I thought that is what partners did—let your other partner have fun.”
“Fucker.No, what you do in that situation, Eden, is you stay home.You make chicken soup, and you watch a movie, or you just give her a chance to recover and do all the shit you need to make sure you’re okay.You don’t go dancing.You don’t go out.You certainly don’t go dancing with another woman.”
He was saying so many good things, but it didn’t help.There was a lot of red flags when it came to her past relationship with Mac, which was scary.
By the end of the night, Maeve was ready to go home, and it was close to midnight.Eden walked out toward the car, and Razor surprised her by walking them both back to the car.
Maeve was on a dance high but not drunk.Other than the one bottle at the beginning of the night, Eden had drunk orange juice and had even asked the barman to get her a coffee, to make sure the alcohol was completely out of her system.She had that beer nearly five hours before.
Maeve climbed into the car, and Eden stopped and turned to Razor.“I had a lot of fun tonight.”
“You did?”he asked.
“Yeah, you’re a great dancer.”
“That is because I had a great partner.”
Eden laughed.“I’ll see you.”
She opened the driver’s side of the car, just as Razor called her name.
“Yeah?”she asked.
“If I decide to call you, would that be all right?”he asked.
She couldn’t keep the smile from her face.“Yeah, I think that would be more than all right.”
With that, she got into the car, slamming the door closed, and fastening her seat belt.
“More than all right?”Maeve asked and let out a little whistle.“Girlfriend, you have got it bad.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You and Razor, you guys have been like that.”She held up her hand and linked two fingers together.
“We have not.”