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Sex in the Sticks

A Love Hurts Novel

by Sawyer Bennett

Available from Loveswept

Chapter 1

Valentine

"What about this?" I ask as I take the navy chalk-stripe waistcoat and hold it up for Jeremy to consider He examines it shrewdly for a moment, then plucks it froulp, but then again, he doesn't need to He's a French, and we Frenches are ridiculously wealthy

"Not bad," he says, and then proceeds to put it on over the gray shirt and tie he'd chosen "You sure this ork for the rehearsal dinner?"

I walk over to the cream silk couch where sone and petit fours for us to nibble on while Jeredorf Goodman, but their service is impeccable

"It will totally work," I assure him

"I like it," he proclais it a little past his lean hips "So can we go now?"

"No, we can't go now," I tell him "You need shoes The rehearsal dinner is as i Well, at least that's whathere"

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Totally not looking forward to it He's getting married to a wo to be a monstrous affair All of Manhattan society will be there It will be the saner dresses with jealousy and theabout how lare at me the entire tihter Valentine French writes a--gasp--sex and dating advice coluetting drunk

"I' the brown boots we looked at on the way in," he says casually, then his eyes cut to e ood and well-bred New York metrosexual, Jeremy likes to shop and spend money, but he does have his limits

"Those Ferraga the little cakes spread out before ray Tom Fords would be dynamite as well"

"I thought Toerated stereotypically gay voice as he starts to remove the waistcoat Jeremy has no clue what's in season or not He only knows that he likes to look fashionable and he relies on his fiancee and me to tell him what to wear

I try hard not to roll ne I love Jeremy to death He's not my only cousin, but he's my favorite family member out of all of the to the beat of e, went to the sae, and are really more like best friends than cousins

We see each other for dinner at least once a week and both enjoy indulging in a shared love of clothes shopping, so we do that often as well His fiancee, Aubrey, is completely jealous of our relationship and constantly tries to derail it by co up with all sorts of functions he has to attend with her to strip away h-society functions that she knows I'd rather be dead than attend, and thus her nefarious plan works too I suppose this is the reason I don't like her all that much

The only reason I' the presence of my family and their wealthy brethren is because I love Jere And even if Aubrey isn't rin and bear it

I drain lass, pull the bottle from the ice bucket, and refill it as dribbles of water dot the marble table in front ofwith you?"

"What do you mean?" I set the bottle back into the bucket and take a healthy sip frolass of bubbly

"You never drink ," he points out as he picks up his own glass and sits on the opposite side of the couch, kicking his feet up on the table "You think it impairs your fashion sense"

"Well it does," I grulass at hi for you today"

"You're totally going to buy that purse you were eyeballing a little bit ago alked in," he says with a laugh