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Gray gives me a shrewd, skeptical look "How?"

"We could do a double date with Zack and Kate," I suggest "I o over to their house for dinner Eat, drink so out"

"A double date," shein the world

"Or," I drawl suggestively "You could coirls They know you as my boss, and I could have you over in that capacity Let theet to know you"

Again, her eyes sith turbulence "What if they don't like me?"

"Not possible"

"It is too possible Anything's possible," she says gently "Statistically, that is"

"For once, screw your statistics," I tell her firhters I know you They will like you Come to adore you like I do, I would bet money"

"It's too soon," she throws out, trying to seek every excuse in the book to assuage her fear of rejection by them "You and Hensley aren't even divorced"

"Just waiting on the signed paper," I tell her, which it see that a lot I'd calledfor the judge to sign the decree, and I' "But you have to remember, Hensley and I have been separated for over a year, so I don't think it's too soon to introduce them to someone I'm interested in For Christ's sake, Hensley had Patric around them all the ti on"

She tries one last time to succumb to her fear "But what if they told someone? Like Hensley?"

Okay, that actually is an honest concern But then an idea strikes ether We'll do so over there and playing with Ben You come and solidify that you're Daddy's, Kate's, and Zack's friend It's low pressure and so natural they'd never even think to say so about it, and even if they did, we can say you were invited by Kate and Zack"

"It's a whole lot of lies," she points out tothis

"For the greater good," I assure her "And besides, we are friends, are we not?"

"You couldn't touch irls or let them know in any e're--"

She stumbles, doesn't quite knohat to call us

"Fucking?" I provide

"Dating," she corrects in a school down at me with censure

"Except we're not dating," I tell her with a grin "We do a whole lot of fucking"

And as if to prove my point, I release her hands and slide ers inch inward, starting to get hard over the thought of pushing theh that blue silk

Her hands lock around aze rises She looks worried "We do more than fuck"

"I knoe do," I reassure her "I was just kidding"

"I'd like to be around you even if you didn't do s to me with your penis"

"And my hands and mouth," I remind her

She nods and lets o "We'd have to be very careful hoe act around each other in front of the girls"

"Agreed But doesn't mean I won't try to steal a kiss or cop a feel when their backs are turned" I shoot her a mischievous wink

"God, you're so bad," she says with a laugh

"I wanna be bad right now," I tell her with a low, husky growl, and slide one hand all the way hoainst me "Want me to be bad?"

She moans and I take that as a yes

Chapter 22

Gray

One other ti this level of nervousness and the two experiences are apples and oranges, yet producing the sa ready to knock on Zack Grantha out with him, his fiancee, and my illicit lover, all carefully calculated so that I can spend soirls

My heart is racing,