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September

Boston

I rolled off her and kneas the last ti to fake it and pretend there would be a next time Janice and I were done even if she didn’t know it yet Sex happened when I needed some, and the rest of the time, it ork, work, andall over the world since I’d taken over the reins at Blackstone Global Enterprises eighteen o when my father became too ill to continue

Janice purred up against ht the urge to push her away but stripped off the condo we both seee with expectations that our connection didn’t really extend beyond the bedroom She was a successful model in the fashion industry and traveled as y before If she had been, then there never would have been a “thing” at all between us, because I knew all about wo for a richas it was easy to spot, and I’d fielded so many attempts over the years, I was an expert at avoidance

But now I sensed Janice wanted so ive her, and I dreaded the confrontation that was co to happen, and it annoyed ht I’d been clear e start

ed out

She’d coo with her farief I’d turned to her offer of coive her ht at a tiested we be exclusive, which was co to play the field in order to get laid was convenient, and we caed in the Boston area, attending the sa at our beachfront ho with soland society just irlfriend thing a shot with her We both had to be in Boston at the saether anyway, and that wasn’t always easy As much as I’d made the effort to work toward my first real relationship in the hopesfor Janice, it was tias on between us, and there never had been

My mother would be devastated when she found out Probably even more than Janice would be Our families were close and I accepted that it would be aard between her people and mine once our breakup was announced

Note to self: don’t fuck friends of the faain

And there was also the suspicion Janice was cheating onin itself, but she was the only woman I’d been with for the last six months If we couldn’t even be honest with each other about ere fucking, then it was hopeless for us anyway Not contracting genital herpes would be an additional plus

I wished I could lay that bouilt trip over our demise as a couple But it wouldn’t do for Madelaine Blackstone to hear the word fuck or any variation of it in a conversation with her son Ever What a pity that was I’d love to see the horrified look on her face—

“What are you s down my stomach on a direct path to my cock

“Was I?” I stopped her hand froled myself from her body I rested my forehead in my hands as I sat up on the side of the bed

“Yeah, Caleb, you were” She sounded annoyed “What’s the ain?” She draped herself over th of her body into mine while I tried not to shudder “You know once is never enough for me,” she said with a very noticeable touch of desperation thrown in to hopefully change my mind

You’re ainvolved with her Learn from this, moron Learn!

I was pretty sure Janice was a ny for a guy who needed to have his brains fucked out to bear the loss of a beloved parent, now not so ed them on, desperate to put a barrier between my cock and her as quickly as possible I really needed a shower, but o another five —forever

The three f’s that became an eventual reality for every woman I’d ever been with

I knew itsex with her first I shouldn’t have and I wasn’t proud of it, but to be fair, Janice initiated the sex tonight, starting with the elevator ride up to my apartment She would have happily blown me on security ca was her thing, not mine

Tonight I’d needed her on rand a plate it was downright cheap if you went solo Ten thousand dollars to cancer research was a lot better than five for the charity I wouldn’t havethe dinner altogether, but that would be a socially retarded thing to do Benefitting cancer research in enerously for as long as I lived My check would always have the extra zero at the end of it anyway

“So you’re really all done for the night” I could hear the disdain in her voice “Caleb, I’ It’ll be at least a week before we can be together again”