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“The kind that starts and ends with sex. The last time I had sex––”

My hand goes up.

“No need to know.”

She smiles like a Cheshire Cat.

“Maybe you do.”

I move past her, unlock the door, and walk in.

My backpack meets the kitchen counter before I kick off my shoes.

“How did you get here?” I ask, glancing at her over my shoulder.

Distracted, she doesn't answer.

I wipe the soles of my shoes with a cloth before heading to the walk-in closet to put them away.

“The love you show those shoes moves me to tears,” she comments as I walk into the bedroom with her right behind me.

I set my shoes on a small rack in the closet and take my clothes off while she slides onto the bed and falls back into a stack of pillows.

The thing is, I missed her so damn much. And although I’ve never thought about it in those terms, I think her absence has played a major role in feeling stranded.

Things were fun when she was here.

“So…” I start before remembering my previous question.

Wearing only my underwear, I latch a hand onto my hip and arch an eyebrow at her.

“How did you get here?”

“Took a cab. I’m not driving tonight. We are not driving tonight. I don’t know about you, but I want to get wasted, not to be the designated driver. Plus, I wouldn’t mind hitting a stranger’s bed tonight,” she says, her gaze moving to the ceiling.

My disapproving silence prompts her to shift her eyes back to me.

A devilish smile glints in her eyes.

“You are going to get me in so much trouble,” I say, picking up my bathrobe and heading to the bathroom.

“And you love it,” she tosses behind me.

I slam the door over her words, grinning.

LIZ

Later

“No way, Chloe. You’ve brought me to the club?”

We walk away from the cab and join a stream of people pushing through the large doors of one of the biggest clubs in Colorado.

This is the club where we brought Thea when she met Ed. I think it was Chloe’s idea back then too.

She’s always been a fun loving girl.

The establishment is part of the Sexton International business conglomerate, which includes hotels––one of them is attached to the club––the most successful casino in Colorado, restaurants, office buildings, and a real estate portfolio valued at insane numbers.

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