Chapter 32
Lucius
As the limo pulls away from Gram’s house, I position my legs to hide the hard-on that’s been bothering me all evening. Until today, I thought “blue balls” was something teenage boys invented to get their reluctant girlfriends to give them hand jobs, but now I’m on the verge of acquiring the mythical condition myself.
“Lucius?” I hear Juno say as if from a distance.
“Yes?”
She chews on her lip. “There’s something I wanted to ask you.”
I give her half of my attention while the other half is working on a list of gross things in order to calm my overactive biology. Her lip chewing isn’t helping.
“Never mind,” she says after a beat.
Now she’s got my full attention. “Something to do with Gram?”
She shakes her head. “I was just… Never mind.”
She’s usually a lot more el
