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He didn’t understand I didn’t want that because he was the most driven son of a bitch I’d ever met Like I said, that was hot until he tried to make me into someone I wasn’t

“Well, you can tell Jaz I’ up with him”

Autry tried not to look too happy about that and failed “Yeah?”

“Yeah He’s too much like hard work”

“Not that I want to talk you out of duuy, but you do realize relationships are hard work Right?”

I snorted “Says the man with the wife and kids he adores”

“Doesn’t mean it isn’t hard work”

“I know that But you’ve got to want to work hard at it, and I don’t want to with Mark Last weekend, he blew up ata fish-eye lens for my camera Told me an expensive ‘hobby’ was a waste of e er at the reminder I’d emotionally and verbally shut him out ever since

“He said what?” Autry frowned “Yeah, you need to duine Jaz if I tried to condescend to her like that? He’s lucky he’s dealing with you and not my woman He wouldn’t have co her what you just told on Life is too short for that bullshit”

“The sex is pretty good, though” I said it uy who made me feel small and unimportant

Autry cutlook “Don’t want to hear it”

I laughed under my breath and sipped my coffee

Straight out of the academy at twenty-one, I was introduced to Autry Davis,man seven years my senior with a quick sense of humor and a warmth that could melt even the coldest soul I’d developed a crush on the man A crush that soon faded into friendship and trust Especially when I hters, Asia and Jada In the last six years, the Davises had welcomed me into their family Autry noas like an older brother Like any brother, he didn’t want to hear about his little sister’s sex life

And like any little sister, I deliberately ignored his pleas to stop torturing him with the details

“I mean, there’s room for improvement, but he’s definitely better at it than Axel” Axel was the guy before Mark A musician Self-involved Selfish in bed And out of it When I was sick with a bad head cold, he didn’t opt to check in on roceries so I could stay in bed Nope He disappeared and said he wouldn’t be back until I ell again Jaz and Autry took care of ain because I told hi in bed either, to be fair, but at least with him, I reached climax