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“He’s okay.” It’s such a stupid response that she snorts.

“Okay with watching you grope his girl while he fucks her for the first time, you mean?” When I give her a sidelong look, she just laughs. “It was in the portal, baby. Everyone’s wonderingwho might get called in for their next enchantment or if that was it. Virginity lost, game over, go home and start a family.”

“I’m not sure what they’re planning next.” That doesn’t mean I don’t have some serious hopes. When Sara comes down from the high of her first time, will she still want me to have her? Will Trent want to watch, switching places with me so he worships her breasts as his eyes lock with mine and I slowly sink into his girl?

“You seem distracted.”

I glance over at Sybil, who’s bouncy and perfect as always. “You think?”

“Like this couple got under your skin.” She studies my face and shrugs. “I’m sure it’s nothing. Just remembering what it felt like for me, but I’m probably projecting.”

“What do you mean?”

She smiles and tosses her wild, golden curls. “The moment I laid eyes on Kora, I knew. I tried to pretend she was just another guest. This beautiful, bisexual bride-to-be who came here to lick her wounds and…well, get licked.” She laughs, but there’s something solemn in her eyes. “But all that time I spent trying to convince myself I wasn’t falling for her was just a cover. A trick I tried to play on myself.”

“You really knew right away, huh?” I’ve seen them together, so I shouldn’t be surprised she and Kora bonded from day one.

“Oh yeah.” Her expression turns thoughtful. “If you’d asked me back then, I’d have told you it was just a job. I’m pretty good at lying to myself when I’m scared by the feelings. But it didn’t take long for me to realize what’s obvious to everyone who meets us now.”

I can’t help smiling at the dreamy note in her voice. “That you’re nuts about each other?”

“Pretty much.” She smiles. “We’re soulmates, Kora and me. At the end of the day, there’s no one on Earth I’d rather be with. I can spend all day having sex with gorgeous women and hot guysand it’s fun—don’t get me wrong—but nobody in the world makes me feel like Kora does. She’s my better half, my partner in crime—my favorite person in the whole fucking universe.”

“Wow.” I had no idea Sybil could get on her soapbox like this. “That’s sweet.”

“Yeah.” She stops walking and looks at me. “Something about this couple—the ones in room sixteen?”

“Sara and Trent.” Something shoots through me the second I say their names. “What about them?”

“I’m getting a vibe from you. A sense that there’s something more there.” She shrugs. “I could be wrong. Like I said—projecting, probably?”

“Probably.” I shift on the balls of my feet, uncomfortable for reasons I can’t quite name.

When my pager goes off in my pocket, I nearly weep with relief.

Perversely, I’m hoping it’s them. That Sara and Trent ignored my instructions to sleep on it, and they’ve already booked me tomorrow.

Pulling the phone out, I stare at the screen.

MFM Enchantment; room 36.

It’s not them.

And it’s a struggle not to feel too disappointed.

“Is it a good one?” Sybil’s still striding beside me, a gentle sea breeze lifting damp blond curls off the back of her neck. “I’ve got a three-girl enchantment at seven tonight, and the guest wants Kora to watch. I’m super excited for that one.”

“It’s all right.” I stare at the room number, wishing the three was a one. Wishing these feelings I’m having were for anyone other than a recent virgin and her standoffish Navy SEAL sweetheart.

But it’s just my dumb luck to go catching feelings for peoplewhose lives could never mesh with my own. Their real world and mine couldn’t be more opposite if we were a different species.

“I think I’m in for the night.” I hit the button to decline, which I don’t do too often. “Today kinda took it out of me.”

“I feel ya.” She watches my face with a knowing smile. “Take care of yourself, Logan.”

I plan to. “See you around.”

As I walk to my room, I can’t shake the sense that Sybil might be onto something. That there’s more to my feelings for Sara and Trent than a casual, short-term hookup.

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