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I nearly choke on a piece of pineapple in my rice "Why is that? Because I have to say now I’m almost afraid to ask And evento do with the food I just have to set a chance to eat, the last thing I want is what’s been under uys who carried the empty pans to your car?"

"Matt and Dino? They work for me when I need help"

"The taller one, I think he has the hots for you," I tease her

Her eyes dart to mine "We’re just friends He’s not interested inshe must be blind if she doesn’t see it "So you don’t have a boyfriend?"

She bites her lip "No I wouldn’t havewell, you knowif I did"

"I do know" I give a low laugh, trying not to growl at the visions her words elicit

She drops her gaze and her hair falls across her face "Do you have any specific fantasy you’d like fulfilled?" she asks "Working girl, sex slave, nurse?"

Her words co me instantly Fuck me if my ck doesn’t start to throb beneath the deni over at her, ue, the reality of it all coh the curtain of red She’s trying to be who she thinks I want her to be Just like her job She’s doing what she thinks she should do And I don’t know if I’a tone "What if that’s not what I’ for?"

Her brow creases with tension as her eyes lift back up to ame and a quick fk in a secluded location?"

"Well, that’s not what I’ for?"

She shrugs "Not so I knoill never work"

"How do you know that if you’re not willing to see what happens?" I try not to sound insulted

"Co that ork between us is sex"

"Well, shit, I guess you have it all figured out Okay, then, I choose the john Why don’t you go on into the bathroom and I’ll be in in a apes atyou No need to finish dinner Let’s fk and get it out of our systeain with clear disappoint you here"

"Good, then Can we finish our dinner and our date?"

"Are you testingto show you that ive me a chance before you make assumptions aboutyou’re after froe twinkle in her eyes that looks a lot like a challenge

"There’s nothing I’d like e to reveal the satisfaction I feel at her words

"As friends only," she adds as if it just occurred to her

I try not to let o without sex She doesn’t know me as well as she thinks she does "Fine Friends only"

"Since we agree, I think we need to set soe

She nods and her hair bounces effortlessly over her shoulder with her uidelines with all the men you call friends? Matt? Dino?"

"No But I haven’t slept with theree because I’m beyond relieved to hear that

She eats a few bites and I watch her, waiting to hear these guidelines,to tell me what they are?" I finally prompt

She pats her lips with her napkin "Oh yes, of course One," she says, holding up her thu as we keep it between us"