Free Full Coverage: Boys of Fall by Erin Nicholas Page A

have handled the idea that Randi would have been used or manipulated by an older guy.
    If she had, he would have had to confront Matt. And that may not have ended well. For one, Matt was well liked in Quinn. Starting something with him wouldn’t have endeared Nolan, now the outsider, to anyone. For another, Matt was a rancher. He worked outside with his hands. Nolan sat at a desk behind a computer. He would have been hurting the next day, for sure.
    “So it was good?” he finally asked when he found his voice.
    She nodded. “I was young. He was a lot older. That maybe wasn’t a great setup. My dad would have come unglued if he’d known. But…” She shrugged. “It was good. Matt treated me well, I liked him, and I was able to tell my friends all about sex, and I got all the awkward first-time stuff out of the way.”
    Don’t ask. Do not ask that question . “Awkward first-time stuff like what?”
    She shrugged. “Figuring out what to do with the condom after? What do you say after? Is it okay to tell him that you want him to do more of something? Is it okay to tell him you want him to do less of something else? Can I touch him there? How does it feel if he touches me there? Am I doing the blowjob right? What if I do swallow?” She sipped her tea again. “All of that usual stuff.”
    Nolan stared at her. Those were all excellent questions. The insight that women thought all those things was fascinating. But hearing Randi talk so casually about sex, so…confidently…was a major turn-on. Because she was definitely confident about it. And matter-of-fact. And it struck him that that was new.
    Randi didn’t talk to him confidently. Until today when they’d been talking about football. And now, about sex.
    Why wasn’t she always confident talking to him?
    But that was it. He knew it. Now that it had occurred to him, he realized that all of those times over the years when their conversations went wacky and she seemed fidgety around him, it was because she was feeling uncomfortable.
    He hated that.
    And he was kind of amazed by it. Why was Randi Doyle uncomfortable around him ?
    Nolan took a deep breath and set his fork down. “So you figured everything out with Matt?”
    She nodded. “Pretty much. I figured out what I like, what I don’t, how to do certain things, how to not do other things.”
    Damn, he wanted to know every single thing she’d figured out.
    “I like to think that I helped him get better too,” she added. “He had a lot of experience when I met him, but practice makes perfect, you know.” She sipped again.
    Nolan shook his head. She was…surprising. In so many ways. He thought he’d known her, or at least all about her. He’d known her his whole life. He’d been fascinated by her for years. But he realized that he knew very little, actually. He knew what was on the surface—she was a beautiful, sweet girl with a wild streak who knew cars and football, had a reputation for liking bad boys, and who hadn’t taken school very seriously. Which hadn’t mattered; she owned her own business now and drew customers from a huge radius because there didn’t exist a machine with a motor she couldn’t fix.
    But there was more underneath, stories that he’d never heard, facts he’d never guessed. And he wanted them all.
    “So cookies and blow jobs,” he said casually. “Those are your specialties.”
    She wasn’t offended. She didn’t even look surprised. She grinned. “And transmissions.”
    Of course.
    Randi was…a new story, a lead he had to follow, an in-depth investigation he had to conduct.
    “But you’re best at transmissions?” he asked, leaning back in his chair, settling in for a long period of discovery. He loved this part of a new story—the interview, the wide open questions, the possibility of uncovering something that neither of them was expecting.
    She gave him a look. “I didn’t say that.”
    “You’re widely known as the best mechanic in five counties.”
    She