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“I won’t be able to need you like that when Roxiverse is shooting.”

“You can.You will or I’ll pull the plug on the whole thing.Anything that gets in the way of us is out.”

“The world will see me as moany and demanding…” She fake tossed her hair even though she was lying down.“I mean, I am moany and demanding, but the world doesn’t need to know that.”

“The world will see me hanging on your every word.”

“Uh, you’re not the star of this show, Buster.Who’s to say I’ll even allow you in frame.”

His voice dropped an octave.“As long as I’m in your frame, the pleasure’ll be all mine.”

Her laughter came like a torrent from her throat.“How do you make even that sound sexy?Oh…” She released all of her muscles.“I love you, Casanova.”

“You know we’re a trademarked brand now?”

And that was hilarious too.“We are?”

“Oh, yeah, the merch money we’ll make on this deal alone… We’ll build a second Crimson Palace in LA.”

“No,” she said, shaking her head in the pillow while rolling onto her side.“I don’t want there to be any question where our home is.”

“Wow, how far you’ve come.”

“If we have two homes, maybe you’ll forget to come back to me.”

“Never,” he said, touching the screen like he wanted to caress her face.“Never, Lola Bunny.You belong to me for life.”

“Ditto.”

ELEVEN

“NO, BUT IT’S never that easy!”

Ten days went by a lot faster than someone might think.Okay, so technically they were on day nine.The wedding was the next day.Tomorrow!Yes, she was already married to the man, but her girls filling the private pod at Crimson LA didn’t know that.

“Toria’s right,” Rylee said.“We’re being pretty smug over here.It’s easy to encourage someone to take the jump after our guys already caught us.Before them?No one knows if any guy is for real.Think about how many bullshit relationships and asshole dates we all went through before getting to where we are.”

Here were her girls, all together, it was fantastic to see them as a group.It was well beyond time for them to gather.She’d have to make a regular thing of it.

“It’s there to see looking back,” Merci said.“We didn’t know at the time.We didn’t know our guys were our forever guys.”

Toria may not be as grateful for the gang.Not while in the midst of a how to find love debate.

“Until you took the leap, that’s what I’m saying, you have to take the leap.”

“I’ve been with a lot of losers in my time,” Toria said, raising her glass before sipping.“And maybe I just don’t want to take the leap.”

“There is a valid point there,” Thea said.“We had to be ready, it had to be… the right time.”

“I didn’t know I was ready,” Roux said.“Hell, I’m still not ready and the guy’s wearing my ring.”

“Thought you didn’t wear rings.”

Roux tipped her head and her drink.“No, because I admit my husband’s identity to the fewest number of people as possible.And, who knows, I might get a better offer.”

“Rourke is a lot of guy to take.”

“Oh, ladies, you have no idea.”