Free The Desire to Touch by N Taylor Page B

kitchen, which is just a work surface across the back wall by the door we entered through. I grab a cup and pour some coffee then spot some cookies and can’t help it, I am tempted to have one. I hear a cough to the right of me and I look but there is no one there. Past the door where we came in is a long curtain, which I didn’t notice when we first walked in but I remember Lucas saying something about it.
    I don’t want to be nosey but I w onder what’s behind the curtain. I slowly walk over and grab the edge of the blue curtain to peak behind when I hear footsteps rushing up behind me.
    “Sorry you can’t go in there,” Lorenzo catches me by surprise. Why is it when you know you’re being naughty you always jump and act guilty?
    “Sorry Ellie that’s where my dress makers work and they do not like to be disturbed.”
    “Sorry,” I can feel myself flushing – damn it.
    Lorenzo leads me back to the sofas, “Have you and Lucas been together long? Lucas, you have done well, beautiful young thing she is and British too.” There’s an eerie unease behind his words.
    I cringe.
    “No, no,” I shake my hands at Lorenzo.
    “We’re just friends,” Lucas confirms.
    “Ah I see my mistake, so how did you two meet?”
    “Lucas is a friend of my cousin and she introduced us, needless to say he can’t cope without me.”
    I hear a laugh come from behind the curtain, “Excuse me, I think you’ll find you are the ball and chain around my leg!”
    The curtain opens and Lucas appears in just his boxers, “That’s right, feast your eyes on this, a real man.”
    I laugh, oh Lucas if only you knew! Looking to the side of the sofa I spot the pile of magazines and grab the first one off the top.
    Lorenzo is on his knees measuring Lucas’s inside leg.
    If I’m going to lose two more hours of my life, then I may as well catch up on more famous people I have never heard of.”
    I open the front cover and start thumbing through the endless pictures of clothes I’m never going to be able to afford, makeup that looks good on pre-teen girls and articles about ‘ Why I married my sister’s-uncle’s-brothers’-cousin that turned out to be my long lost brother’. Finally I stop flicking the pages and land on ‘ 10 ways to spice up your sex life ’, oh wow now this is a read to pass the time.
    My Angel has appeared and I hadn’t even noticed . They had been MIA. She is filing her nails completely disinterested but devil girl has her binoculars out and is gawping at Lucas.
    I peer over the top of the magazine to see Lucas eyeing himself in the mirror as Lorenzo measures his inside arms.
    “Ok go try the blue suit on.”
    Lorenzo turns to me, “Like’s his reflection a little doesn’t he?”
    “Yes just a little bit, I always said he should have a mirror for a girlfriend.”
    Lorenzo chuckles and turns back to wait for Lucas, I look back at the magazine and continue to read.
        So now I am fully clued up on all manner of sex toys, food and foreplay – like that’ll come in handy, my heart skips a beat and I start grinning again at the thoughts of last night. Angel girl is tapping her foot warning me not to get overexcited, it’s never going to happen.
    I turn the page and there he is, Trey Thomas smiling at me and leaning against a bar, obviously posing for the five page spread that probably made this magazine spike in sales.
    Devil girl rears up and eggs me on to read it ‘ get some tips ’ she whispers, Angel girl warns me off. I know who is right but it can’t hurt to read it surely? Everyone knows most of the things in print are made up by PR to keep people interested.
     
    ‘ Trey Thomas is a world famous actor adored by millions so how is he still single or is he?’
    We sent Renee Collins to find out what makes him tick.’
     
    I skip through the headings to the bits I want to know.
     
    Renee: ‘You had been in a long term relationship with fellow actress Kyla Brooks and the break up was a shock