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sleep with you.”
    “Charming.”
    “Come on, you don’t want to sleep with me.”
    “Very true. You’re tainted by your love of Russ.” He
was doing everything he could to make her smile. Richard had seen the pain in
her eyes, and the fear of what was happening to her. He liked Anna. She was
strong. The BBMC had been there when she needed them most. Anna’s friend had
been taken, and trying to save her, she’d gotten taken as well. During her time
being captured, Anna was beaten, starved, locked in an animal cage, and
witnessed her best friend dying.
    He had a lot of respect for her, and for how she had
handled what she’d gone through. Not many would have been able to bounce back
from that.
    “You could share her, you know?”
    “What?” he asked. He was a little taken back seeing as
that was what he wanted to do. Richard had no intention of Anna knowing that,
though.
    “Share her. Share Temperance.”
    Richard laughed. “You’re really going to offer me
advice on sharing. I bet you couldn’t share Russ.”
    “First, I’m not an idiot. I know you like to share your
women, Richard. Secondly, this is not about me and Russ. We’re not into that. You are. Thirdly, you weren’t jealous of
Tempe’s friend, and we both know what you meant about there being a new
possibility with him.”
    “Everything is fucked up right now.” He didn’t like
how easy he was to read.
    “I always love it when a businessman talks dirty.”
    “Hey, that’s me you like talking dirty,” Russ said.
    “I’ll leave you two alone.” Richard got up and made
his way toward the door.
    “Talk to her,” Anna said. “Talk to Temperance before
you start assuming what she wants, and try to make sure she’s part of the
decision. You billionaires are a little self-centered at times.”
    Richard nodded. “Take care of yourself.”
    “I will.”
    ****
    “Tempe, can I come in?”
    Curled up in bed, Temperance stared at the door that
concealed her best friend from her. She didn’t want to deal with Jay right now.
He was a problem that she didn’t see coming. Yes, she loved him. He was her
best friend, and she couldn’t imagine life without him in it, but that kind of
love, that had disappeared long ago, or at least she thought it had. Now she
was struggling with all of her feelings.
    He took her virginity because she asked him to, and
she didn’t want anyone else for her first time.
    “Come in, Jay,” she said.
    Seconds later he was lying beside her on the bed.
“Hey, bumpkins.”
    “Don’t. Don’t use childhood sweet names right now. I’m
not in the mood.”
    He sighed. “I’d have told you sooner.”
    “How long, Jay?”
    “Forever.” He didn’t even try to pretend that he
didn’t know what she was talking about.
    “That makes no sense. You’ve been screwing your way
through every single woman that comes your way. You’re telling me that you’ve
loved me all that time?” She didn’t believe it, not for a second.
    “Yeah, I’ve loved you since the beginning. The night I
took your virginity, in my head, that was it. You finally understood what I
felt.”
    Temperance remembered the day, and she felt her cheeks
heat. She’d woken the next morning and asked that they never talk about it
again.
    “You could have said something.”
    “How? You couldn’t even look into my eyes as you
spoke. I didn’t want to lose my friend, and you’ll always be my friend.”
    “This is going to be hard.”
    “Give me a chance, Tempe.”
    “Don’t.”
    “I’m not going to go anywhere,” Jay said. “Richard, do
you really think he’s the sticking around kind of guy?”
    “I don’t know what kind of guy he is. I know bits
about him, but, don’t do anything stupid.”
    “Tell me something,” he said.
    “What?”
    “Do you like him?”
    “Yes, I do.”
    “Do you think you could love him?” Jay asked.
    “I don’t know.”
    “Do you think you could love me?”
    “I do love you, Jay.”
    “Not as a friend,