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“Try me,” she said

I inhaled a deep breath When she acted this way, there was no stopping her froet no rest if I didn’t do as she demanded As I looked up at my bunny-clad best friend, I realized that without her, I wouldn't have this job to begin with If for no other reason than that, I owed her a recounting of the evening’s events

“Fine,” I groaned “I’ll tell you, but I' you There’s no happily ever after”

About fifteencross-legged at the knee to at last propping her chin in her hands with her elbows on her knees as I concluded She hesitated for aand then stirred to life with a sudden flail of her arms

“Wait, wait, so you’re telling me that Greyson Sinclair, billionaire playboy, beat up souy called you a hooker and then after all that, he invited you back to his hotel roo me?”

I nodded as she finished “Yes”

“You’re a goddamn liar, Maddie Olsen!” she exclaimed “You really expectlike he did for you?”

I shook my head as she finished “I didn’t resist him, Katy”

“What do youwith him”

“Right I didn’t”

“Hang on, I’er atwith him That doesn’t make any sense”

Falling back into the roaned, “Believe me it’s not like I didn’t want to… Don’t want to… It's just that he…”

“What?” she said “He what?”

“He didn’t do anything After we got back to the hotel, he invited me up to his room I went BelieveAll he did was go over his schedule That’s all He’s not interested in me That much is obvious”

The chair Katy sat in squeaked as she leaned back in it and roared with laughter

I closed my eyes and exhaled “It’s not funny, Katy It sucks!”

After a good ten seconds or so, Katy got up fro on it, she pulled me into a seated position and then pointed to aon the back of my bedroom door

“Maddie, I’ve had to do this twice now! Have you looked at yourself in the mirror? What man, especially a man with the appetite of Greyson Sinclair, wouldn’t be interested in…” she stopped esture directed towards my body and then continued, “well, this!”

As much as I appreciated what she tried to say, it was obvious my point didn’t come across as I’d hoped

“I don’t know, he just wasn’t,” I said with a shrug

Her brown hair bobbed to and fro as she shook her head in disagree to turn him off, Maddie Simple as that”

I grabbed the edge of the bed, pushed myself up and walked past her towardsto say And besides, it see happened”

As I finished speaking, I wrapped my hand around the brass fixture on my dresser drawer and pulled it open

“Why would I be happy about that?” she asked I had rew more exasperated as she tried to understand

Pulling out my favorite oversized t-shirt, I slipped it on over my head As I walked back towardsit ‘professional’”

Katy stepped aside and allowed me to slip in between the sheets The cool texture of the fabric felt good against le when I ht and pulled the sheet all the way up to my chin

After watching my display, Katy shook her head and sat down on the bed next to me

“Maddie,” she began “Do you want to sleep with him?”

“Yes… no… I mean, I don’t know,” I said I yanked my arms out from beneath the sheet and slammed them, palms down, on either side of my body “This is a stupid conversation, Katy What difference does it make what I want? He can have anyone he desires; why the hell would he want me anyway?”

Ignoring my self-pity for the ain?”

I rolled , at eleven He’s got aat the studio Oh shit!”