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What time is it? Oh God, I fell asleep in Arsen’s apartment I look to ainst h mine

It painsback to sleep, ainst his… But there’s a whisper insideHenry,"to call et the call Oh, who a? It’s not even about work… I just want to talk with hiain

And so, with a perfect naked et dressed I could reschedule the call, I know that—but so to hear that voice on the other end of the line I leave the apart so damn much about a man I’ve never even met

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I don’t knohy I’ excited to talk to Ashley when she was just here a couple of hours ago But regardless of the fucking reason, I shower, shave, go work out, and get so down in front of h ain

What the fuck is going on? I’ardless of whether I had showered or shaved or whatever, she’d be looking to get et excited about It’s nothing to revolve my day around

But that’s exactly what I’ht now I seein if you ever saw the movie where Steve Carrell puts on the candles and shit before putting on the fucking porno so he could jack off Hell, chances are Dad’s company produced that porno in the first place And noonder how rave when he sees his only fucking son getting a fucking hard on getting ready to pay money to talk dirty with one of his own phone sex operators

Jesus fucking Christ I gotta calm the fuck own

I turn on the cowithto divest out of this shit I pull up the research on the Morozov family of companies that I had asked Gerard to do Thatup the coive us who Luca Giannoni orking for, but it givesto

But wait, it’s already noon And thatfor me to call her

Actually, letHenry" to call her

Whatever, don’t look at ht now like that, ok? Until I met her, I used to be a normal, well-adjusted asshole Sure, I used to fuck wo lied to the life

“Hi this is Misty, who a to?” she purrs into the phone and ain

“It’s King Henry, Kitten,” I say with the affected gravelly voice I’ ; my mind and concentration are completely focused on the line