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Chapter 16

On Water Street, waiting for a cab to pick me up and delivery me to my apartment, a smile of happiness for Jory blooms on my face. My attraction to him feels immeasurable and uncontainable, determining my strong connection for the celebrity, frankly and wholly.

18: Bubbly Inside

Ben is livid with me because I spend the night out, not returning home until eight o’clock in the morning. While I shower, readying myself for a day at the center, he stands in the bathroom doorway with a steaming cup of coffee, wearing nothing but a pair of my clean boxers, and inquires, “Where were you last night?”

“I went to The Piedmont Place for a fundraiser.”

“Who were you with?”

I scrub my chest down with a bar of soap and reply, “Jory Sole.” There is no reason to lie. I’m not keeping secrets from him. He has his life, and I have mine. Just because he seduced me once doesn’t mean that we’re lovers or solely connected to each and no one else.