Free Mr. Right Now: Vol. 3: Drinks On Us Tonight by HJ Bellus

chest in a sweaty heap, breathing heavily.
    “Best fucking sex ever.” He feels each word mumbled into skin.
    “Best fucking sex ever,” he repeats, and he wasn’t fucking lying either.
    “Whatever, player.” Jax slides off to the side, tracing his banner tattoo covering his chest.
    He grabs her chin with a painful force. “I’m not fucking lying, Jax.”
    Cole lets go off her face, scared of how forceful he was with her. He has no intentions of hurting her, but she needs to know the truth.
    “Sorry,” she whispers.
    “I’d never lie to you, Jax. That’s the one thing I can promise you.”
    His eyes grow heavy while she continues tracing each of the tats on his chest. Soon her finger stops and her breathing slows. It’s the most comforting thing he’s ever felt, and he soon floats away into slumber.

 
    Jax rolls over in the sunshine to find an empty bed. She sits up, halfway asleep, looking around for signs of Cole. Her hand lands on a piece of paper next to her.
    Doc,
    Have a quick business trip out of town. I’ll call you when I’m back. Thanks for last night. It was the best conversation and fun I’ve had in a long time.
    Cole Sterling
    PS- Breakfast is waiting for you in your kitchen.
    Even his fucking handwriting is sexy. There has to be some sort of finishing school where the Sterlings went, she thinks to herself again. Jax climbs from the bed and gasps when the covers drop to the ground, exposing her naked body. Never in her life has she done what she did last night.
    She’s not Virgin Mary, but far from a ‘ho. Jax experimented with a couple different boyfriends in college, but it took them several grueling months before they even made it to second base with her. Not Cole Sterling. He slides right into home plate, and the sad thing is she begged him for it.
    Jax wraps herself up in her robe and makes her way to the kitchen to see an assortment of pastries and a very large bouquet of red roses. The card peeking from the flowers reads “Nurse Nancy.” She snatches it and quickly opens the card and is surprised to see his handwriting and not typed letters.
    Naughty Nurse Nancy,
    I found my experience at your clinic very exhilarating and to the utmost standards of care. Thank you for allowing me to be your patient. If you ever have another opening, please let me know.
    The Patient
    Jax searches the counter for her phone and races over to it. She pulls up his number and sends him a quick text.
    Jax: Thank you
    The Player: Thank you
    Jax: You should’ve woken me
    The Player: I don’t sleep very well ever and you were out
    Jax: I wanted to say good-bye to you
    The Player: Yeah?
    Jax: Yeah
    Jax settles on her couch with a pastry and her phone. She turns her head, inhaling Cole’s lingering scent from the couch.
    The Player: Re-do? So you have the chance to say good-bye
    Jax: Yes!!!!!!! Be here in five minutes?????
    The Player: I wish.
    Jax : 
    The Player: I’ll call you when I get back into town. It will be later tonight.
    Jax: k
    The Player: Remember the best ever
    Jax forces herself to put the cell down, or she’d go back and forth with him all day. Having the day off is never her friend; they always end up being the longest and most boring days of her life. She usually ends up going for a run then coming home and staring at the walls. Today, though, after her run she plans on going shopping. Yes, shopping is her least favorite activity, but she intends to look for something naughty to wear for her one re-do with Cole. Just one more time with the man won’t hurt anything.
    Her phone rings, startling her, and her hopes are dashed when she sees her sister’s name on the caller ID, and not Cole’s. She doesn’t want to answer, but knows her sister will call back twenty times and then start calling the hospital for her.
    “Hello?”
    “Jacquelyn, you answered the first time.”
    The sound of her formal name makes her cringe. Only her family members call her by it.
    “Yeah, what’s