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"What are you thinking about?"

I turned ht atabout the day we rabbed you?"

I turned onhim "Why did you hire me?"

He turned on his side too, and inched his way over the white sheets until ere a few inches apart "You know, you always ask me that"

"And you never answer"

He chuckled "You already know the answer You just want me to say it"

"You liked what you saw"

"Yeah And?"

"And I didn’t look like her one bit"

He nodded "Precisely"

"I notice you can talk about it htly stroked my bare arm as his eyes went about my face I re hiiven his heart to It took et her name out of his lips Sandra it was, and she’d sto their love in the worst way iured she cheated and that’s what the ultimate betrayal was, but he was yet to tell me the exact reason

We respected each other’s privacy, which is why this arrangeether for two years In the beginning, it was occasionally We weren’t fully into it, and only when the itch got too bad we sought each other out But lately, the holes we thought would be closing were only getting bigger The past six hts a week… minimum

But still That line was drawn deep in the sand between us We didn’t want a relationship Relationships were doohtest reain Every tiet, for even the briefest ofdreamt him, I pushed away fro shower I wanted to preserve that drea hi, I realized

He wasn’t in the bedroo froed and joined the beside coffeeat the kitchen table, wearing the saht; her eyes were puffy, her face plagued by exhaustion, and a bottle of rapped in her over with alcohol, huh?" I remarked with a roll of my eyes "A bit counter-productive, don’t you think?"

"Eh, fuck you I do what I want" Even her voice sounded slurred