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“All right It’s the es before I send this episode that I’ ready to walk back to my room

“Oh, and Nik?” Ada me stop in his hall

“Yeah?”

“I’hteen-year-old Now that you’re here and I know the truth, kno you feel…all bets are off”No one had ever accusedoverly sophisticated, so there was little point in trying to adapt cultivated tactics to er sixteen

The way I saw it, ere both single (I kneas single, because I’d spent the entire night cyber-stalking hi for a decade, and yes, I would like the Nobel Prize for my notable self-restraint to be mailed to my current address, please) We both liked each other and shared the sah, and if ere half as good between the sheets as we’d been at rolling on the carpet doing our so-called freestyle wrestling, fireworks would explode every time we touched each other

Noe’d officially graduated fro the air to The Seduction Game

Theit with Maya, I strolled out ofdeal, scriptwriters kill off and resurrect characters in soap operas in their bikinis all the tiht to Adam’s balcony

He had a kidney-shaped pool, bracketed by palm trees for privacy The Hollywood Hills view made me feel like I lived in a fairytale I settled on one of the sunbeds, ignoring the fact that I couldn’t read anything onon the screen, and waited for Adam to wake up

He dragged hi two cups of coffee He came to the balcony shirtless, his six-pack on full display His arhs and corded with muscles I wanted to climb him like one of the palm trees

He sat besideone of the coffee cups on the table between us I murmured my thank you as he squinted at the pool I still couldn’t believe he had a freaking private pool in his condo I mean, he resided in the penthouse, but still

“Slept well?” I purred

“Sure How’syou?”

“It’s really nice Thank you”

There was a pause The aardness lingered in the air At least it was nervous aardness, and not the-only-reason-I’-you-with-a-steak-knife-is-the-laard

“You don’t need a bikini to seducedoes the trick Always did” He still looked at the pool

Good thing, asto seduce you”