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Unfortunately, it wasn’t up to hiht nohat she wanted wasabout the back rub and wriggling her butt between his legs, it was all he could do not to join in on the ritted his teeth and did his best to ood

"You knohat you really need?" he asked as he slid his fingers into her hair

"Mashed "No Well, itabout"

"Oh Yeah, you’re right about that I do need an orgas dry spell forher come--with his hands, his ht it up?

Because you enjoy self-torture, Nathan?

"So why don’t you have one? You can do it yourself, right?"

"I can And I do But you know it’s not the sa someone do it for you--or with you"

He slid back on the sofa so Mia couldn’t feel his boner This was a really idiotic topic of conversation and he had no one to blaht entered his head A really great one, too "I have an idea"

She half turned "You do?"

"Yeah Let’s have sex"

She laughed "Nathan No"

He turned her so she sat on one of his thighs "No, listen, Mia This is a really great idea You and I are friends, right?"

"Yes"

"Neither one of us is looking for a relationship right now At least I’m not"

"You know I’h-pressure jobs, and what’s a better pressure reliever than sex?"

"Okay, that’s true, but, Nathan, we’re friends"

"Exactly We know each other We trust each other And we’re not looking for anything per No strings"

She opened herto object But then she paused "Okay, say we have sex"

He grinned "Yeah, say we do"

"And say one of us getsemotionally involved"

"That won’t be me"

"It won’t be s going on in my life"

"Then what’s the problem?"

"What happens when one of us wants to have a relationship with soed "Then we’re done We’ll still be friends, just not sex friends"

She frowned "You make it sound so simple and I don’t think it is"

"Why isn’t it that easy? We’ve been friends for years, Mia I don’t plan on changing that Do you?"

"Of course not I trust you"

"Sa thing right now is full of complications that I don’t need or want"

"And what if tomorrow you meet the woman of your dreaonna happen I don’t have tiave hiave hiuys ill fall in love touys And if you o back to being best friends who don’t have sex with each other"

She sighed "It kind of sounds too good to be true And I don’t believe in too good to be true I value our friendship and I don’t want to lose it"

"If we do this the right way, and keep emotions out of it, we’ll stay friends I can handle it Can you?"