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I didn’t, but I’ her question is rhetorical, so I don’t even bother answering

"And now he"--she snarls that last word out as she points to poor Steve standing sheepishly over by the door--"iswith hi Bebe sain It’s bullshit And I’d be so pissed at you if you did this to uts"

I’hn and all that happened yesterday when Bebe pops in with another question "So who did you see that you wanted a to lie to her Vaughn never said I had to keep quiet, but if I’irlfriend mistake to tell her half the story and not the rest She’d never forgive uy from back home You know that one assle who makes our drinks at the Starbucks in LoDo?"

"Oh, yeah, he’s such a dick What’d you say to hiotten and she’s all interested in , but I want to keep Vaughn forany part of hiossip

"It wasn’t hi" My phone buzzes under ot there when I don’t re home from the beach

"Who’s that?" Bebe asks, leaning over into my space so she can read the text

The number comes up with no name, but I don’t need a nairl

"Just a guy I uy, so I’ to bother with hiht!" Bebe says "Don’t cut yourself off just yet, Grace"

"Yeah, but you--"

"No! Seriously, if you found a hot o for it"

"See," Steve says fro to do Let’s go snorkel and enjoy this day"

I sorta hate Steve right now, but I don’t say anything because he’s what Bebe and I call two-hour parking Get in, get out, o snorkel, that’s fine with , Master, just to see what kind of response I get back

My phone vibrates almost immediately, but I stuff it under my pillow until Bebe leaves It takes es into a clean bathing suit and leaves with Steve to go snorkel I run to the bed after I close the door behind theet ready To the left of your bungalow is a closed path Follow that until you get to a bougainvillea-covered wall, then turn left and follow that south until you get to a clearing Remove your clothes Kneel down And wait forwith anticipation I was too tired last night to think about sex once we decided to be friends on the beach But now that I’e into my yellow bikini and white shorts, then pull a white tank top over ht as opposed to s halfway down , and rush out the door, eager to see what all this master stuff is about

It’s weird that I don’t think it’s weird But I’ve read my share of sexy romance books and you can’t play Dirty Heaven every weekend without at least having soe about this stuff, so maybe I’m just desensitized At any rate, I’ Curious as to why I’ it? Maybe a little But ht treat ht happen after it’s over

It’s a risk, I realize A risk that has lots of potential consequences Because whatever happens today, it will be happening with a famous person That part is a little surreal for ant and deht in the sand he talked for hours And I did drift in and out of sleep for ht so he said was extraordinary or special, and yet it was It was because he was telling s about himself that not many people would want to know But the fact that he was talking about them hn talked like he had years of things to say Like he had no best friend to tell these things to, so he saved thealow is closed, like Vaughn said, but it’s just a low-hanging chain with a sign dangling off it I step over it and proceed into the thick tropical foliage The sunlight filters through in randoical quality When I get to the flower-covered wall, I turn left The path back this way has clearly not been used for a while, because it’s rasses When I see the clearing up ahead I findmy breath

Am I ready for this?

Absolutely

I step out and look around It’s not a large clearing, but it’s about the size of the round, there’s too row I like that because it keeps the temperature down