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I think for a moment and shake my head

“No, not really I used to, but not so much anymore I talk to my parents at least once a week, and they send me lots of selfies, and sometimes even let Eddie say hello on the phone Plus, I could never go back to New Jersey now My life is here, in Manhattan, where I belong”

“I’ers over the back of my hand “I don’t knohat I’d do without you around, sweetheart”

My pulse zooms to a hundred in an instant, and ? Is Jas for me too, despite the fact that our relationship is fundamentally transactional?

Thankfully, I’m saved by the appearance of our server, and I order the chicken piccata while James asks for a rare steak with fries on the side Our conversation is light and easygoing, and when the food arrives, it’s delicious EachI could make to shame

“Have so me another bite of fry

“Oh no, I couldn’t,” I giggle “I’m stuffed!”

“There’s always roo a kiss on ure like yours, Simona I want to keep you curvy and beautiful, and thatyou fed”

I giggle because it’s true My man adores my lushness, and has actually ht He doesn’t wanta Jessica Rabbit figure is very much part of that

When we’ve had our fill, neither of us are ready to call it a night, so we hit up one of Manhattan’s clubs on the Far West side called the Shore

“Have you been before?” I ask as we’re whisked by a velvet rope

“You betcha,”his features look even more masculine and sharp “Come on baby You’ll have fun”

The h hts pulse as bodies slink and slither on the dance floor, alrab my man’s hand

“Come on, dance with me!” I have to shout to be heard over the music