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“Like always”

“Like always,” he repeats after ot into her head that she needed to go up the stage and have Maverick dance for her She just clie and tackled him; can you believe it? She could have just asked” Just another night, then It see at Dirty Python, the hottest place in New York No, scratch that, the hottest place in the East Coast

Since we’ve opened doors that it see headlines in some media outlet We climbed out from the seedy colule day there’s a reporter knocking at our doors, or calling us up trying to schedule an interview or an exclusive piece It was fun in the beginning, but we mostly just turn them do Our club is a place where people, bothand judgmental eyes It’s a safe haven, and we don’t have reporters there pestering our custorown so successful

Austin used to joke that he wasn’t still a few ed pretty fast We’resoanother club just like it on the West Coast That is, if you find soh to run it Strokes isn’t really interested in running a club again

Oh, yeah, you’re probably wondering about her She actually spent half a year in Barcelona, and then she travelled all over Europe for two more months She caive birth She bawled her eyes out when I told her ere na our baby after her

She eventually settled in New York again, the city no longer feeling like a bad place full of bad meoes She’s gotten into her mind that she wants to be a lawyer, and Austin proreed in a heartbeat

“Cokiss I closehis kiss as if it was the first one It seeo… Remember when I went to Python just so I could spy for Lester? Everything spun out of control after that day and, by God, I couldn’t be happier that it happened the way it did In a twisted turn of events, Lester was the one bringing us together

Oh, about him… He actually did leave New York as Austin made him promise He quit his position as the Police Co and ood idea to try out the roulette and, next thing he knows, he’s flat out broke

Eventually he decided to turn his life around The last ti tabs on hiotten a job at a coffee shop That’s right, froas If you ever come across him, make sure you place an extra complicated order for him And don’t tip

“Do you think we have the tirin of his flaring up so inside of me It’s like this every day, really You’d think that all that electric lust would start dissipating after a few le day, but in fact it’s been just the opposite Sure, it’s trickier nowadays with the baby; I have learned to be quieter, that’s one, but we still can’t go a day without sex

“I think we do,” I whisper back at him, my arms still around his neck I pull hi down to my waist

“You know… So if all this isn’t just a dreaet so lucky?”

“I wonder the same sometimes,” I takeit already hard and pulsing against the palm of my hand “But then I just feel you inside of me and I realize that this is as real as it could be…”

“Well, let’s make the test then Just to be sure,” he s his pants down Yeah, let’s be sure

But he’s right, you know? Our life see out of a fairy-tale We’re the envy of the whole world Could life be any more perfect?