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I’m almost envious. It’s like watching Crue and Rya. Reminding me that there can be functional relationships. Hell, even happy marriages.

Everyone picks up a shot and raises it. They look at me expectantly, so I oblige. Fuck it! I came to let down my hair. So I will. American style.

“Cheers to my beautiful wife. Twenty-one again,” Emit announces. We clink our shot glasses, and I notice Kit’s gaze on me before we throw them back. I swallow the shot, a mild buzz running through me.

I mean, I suppose he’ll do, right?It doesn’t matter who I give my virginity to. As long as I get rid of it, right?

“So, are you new to town?” Kit asks.

“She came over from Italy only a month ago,” Alana replys on my behalf. “And she is, like, the best!”

She encourages everyone to grab another shotglass.

“I don’t know if I’m still going to be the best tomorrow at work if you keep feeding me these shots,” I joke. But I oblige and throw back another drink.

Kit offers me his hand. “Are you drunk enough now to dance?”

I consider him.

I mean, he is cute.

Fuck it!

I take his hand.

CHAPTER 19

Dawson

“So you tried to fuck my virgin sister-in-law?” Crue asks as he sits back in the chair on the other side of my desk. His unannounced visits are becoming quite the habit.

“Remind me, when is your brother coming back?” I ask because he needs to come back soon. Crue and I are friends, good ones at that. He is a powerful man, no doubt about that, but since his right-hand man is off with his wife, who just had a baby, I’m left to entertain him on the days Rya is working late.

“Hopefully soon. And stop avoiding the question because I got an earful for you… I don’t even know… not fucking her?” he complains.

Flattered that I’ve become a household discussion, I think bitterly.

“She’s a nice young woman but not my type.”

A dark chuckle leaves him.

“What?” I ask, narrowing my gaze.

“Nice young woman. What is that even supposed to mean? Like, nice enough you want to fuck her, or nice enough that you think you shouldn’t?”

“Neither.”Both. And I don’t like that Honey has become a discussion topic for us twice now.Perhaps Crue has become a lonely househusband, trying to entertain himself with gossip.I smirk into my glass at the thought.

I would rather do bad things to her, but I won’t fuck a virgin. And I don’t think it’s fair to her because Ionlywant to fuck her, and Honey seems more like the relationship type.

I sell sex for a living, for fuck’s sake.

How would a virgin work into that?

“Well, from what I hear, she has been enjoying the dating world, and tonight, she is on her third date with the same guy. She likes him, so I hear her telling Rya.”

He has definitely turned into a gossiping househusband.

This news shouldn’t bother me. I shouldn’t care that Honey’s dating someone else, but for some reason, it makes my skin crawl to know that someone else’s hands will be all over that body.

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