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Chapter 1

January

How does one go about seducing their al an internet search The results are heavy on porn and light on answers In the end, I’m left to my own devices

That’s how I end up on his front porch in a short black dress and thigh-highs in theI’ as I knock on the door, and it’s not purely because the icy wind hable barrier

Despite the late hour, he’s awake My breath catches in my throat as the door opens to reveal hio, was supposed to be e when you least expect it Or not so funny at all I sure as hell don’t feel like laughing

He fills the doorway, a largeof salt and pepper in his hair He’s in his late forties, sonition slips over his handso here?”

“I was hoping we could talk” I have to clench one with the trench coat route At least then I’d have a coat

To his credit, Shane doesn’t make me wait He moves out of the way and holds the door open so I can walk past hiain Maybe if I hadn’t stood out there for so long, gathering e, I wouldn’t be so cold now

“What did he do?”

I blink and stop trying to rub feeling back into ertips “Excuse me?”

“My asshole son What’s he done now?” He catches er is markedly empty Shane skates his thu Now my shivers have very little to do with te to do with desire

It’s yet another indication of theon all cylinders His freaking father can do le swipe of his thu with his entire body Then again, Max and I only ever had polite, friendly sex—which was not what I found hi with his secretary when I showed up unexpectedly at his office It’s not what I suspect he was doing with the others I suspect came before her

I don’t want to get into it right now I’ve already had four days of tears and raging withabout how I found Max fucking his secretary like the biggest goddaain