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"No She was distant, and cold Not at all like the sirl I fell for in the first place Once the rock was on her finger and the ink on the e license was dry, she turned into a completely different person The one I suspected she’d actually been all along She’d played me Married me for my money and I’d fallen for it like a lovesick fool"

"I’m sorry, Colt…" she starts

"No, don’t" She shouldn’t be the one apologizing toon earlier was full-on throbbing in ame Stella pulled onanother wo causally I didn’t want to, but my brothers occasionally set me up with a woman Behind every sweet smile and every flirty look was someone only interested in enuine connection, not a trophy wife But I realized withto be soo to that auction?" Her confusion is etched between her eyebrows as she waits for me to answer

"To put it bluntly?" I so ahead

"Acelibate for two years…I was horny as fuck and needed to get laid"

Her mouth twitches in a smile

"That’s the co for and that there’d be no chance of feelings or false proht had crossed uy to hire an escort I wanted soetting leaked CEOs who get caught hiring prostitutes usually end up on the evening news"

She nodded in silent understanding

"With the auction, I liked the reements and confidentiality prole we covered before"

"But you never…we never…" She pauses

"I never fucked you," I finish for her

She lifts her chin in indignation "Why not? Is it because you would have felt like you were cheating on her?" she asks, her big blue eyes locked onto mine