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Chapter 1

Crew

There are certain luxuries afforded a man when he owns a club in Manhattan He can drink the best scotch in the world and expense that shit He can pick a different woht of the week, and he can sit on his ass and watch one of his best friends get hit on by so or he can do so about it

I've had ht is waiting for me back at her place I can't leave my club, Veil East, yet That's because, Adley York, one of o home with a professional baseball player with a reputation for hitting it out of the park

It doesn't matter to me if another man is stellar in bed I don't compare myself to anyone I've never had a complaint in all the years I've been active on the Manhattan social scene I have zero doubt that I've fuckedon the dance floor, he's about to take Adley home to screw her

That is not happening on my watch

I can't have her because there are women that you friend and woory although my traitorous cock wants her in the second It can't happen If I take that petite blonde to bed, I'll lose her, and the hole that would leave inemotional maturity to deal with

"Adley," I call out her na beat that vibrates off the walls Why the hell did I have a state of the art sound system installed in this place? "Hey, Ad"

By the grace of God, she notices le of her ass before she grabs hold of the star pitcher's shoulders I swear to fuck if she cliht now, I'll haul her off the floor over my shoulder

Iher head, she flips me the bird

I slam my now empty tumbler on the bar and stalk toward her

"I need to talk to you" I stand next to her "It's important, Adley"

"It can wait, Crew" Her pretty face flushes "I'ht now"

She's a little drunk right now I see it in her eyes and her hips She's aching for soive it to her, it'll be me

No I fucking can't Those perfect tits and that curvy ass are off-limits

"I' to drop you off at your apart sht We're at full capacity I don't need to be here to benefit froo"

"Why would l do that?" Her eyes rake my six-foot-three, two-hundred-pound fra pants, and shoes are all designer labels doesn't impress Adley It never has "You're not as fun as Trey is"