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I text to let him know I’ll go with him—can’t let him do this unsupervised, God knows what he’ll do—and scroll down to the agency’s number.
Why not, right? It’s not like I have a crush on Riot or anything. He’s only helping me work through my fear.
My finger wavers over the number. I know that if I meet him again, it will happen. I’ll let him undress me, take me. It will be the last test. If I fail it, I may as well go away and become a hermit, or a nun.
Oh what the heck. I won’t know until I try, right? That’s what I used to be like, before fear crippled me. Adventurous.
Well, I’m not dead. I survived, and now I’ll do more than that. I’ll find myself. Rediscover sex with a man.
With Riot.
“Bad Boy Escorts, how may I—?”
“Hi, I would like an appointment with Riot.”
“Riot Gallagher?”
“Yes.”
“Your name, please?”
“Paxtyn Page.”
“Oh, Ms. Page. Apologies, I didn’t recognize your voice.”
I shift from foot to foot. Why should he recognize my voice? We’re not friends and we’ve only spoken a couple of times. This guy is weirding me out. “Right.”
“When would you like the appointment? The weekend or—?”
“Today.”
A silence greets my words. Word. Whatever. Why, I wonder. It’s not the first time I called and asked for an appointment on the same day.
“Riot is available at nine,” says the guy, his tone clipped.
Okay, what in the world is his problem? “That’s fine.”
“I’ll let him know. Thank you, Ms. Page. Same place?”
I hesitate. “No. I’ll give you another address.” He hums an affirmation, and I rattle off the address of my apartment.
After another thank you, he hangs up and I put my cell away.
Just weird. The agency guy sounded like he wasn’t happy with me.
Or Riot.
Huh.
Then what I’ve just done strikes me.
Riot in my apartment. In my living room, on my sofa.
In my bed.
Nervousness swamps me. Was that a stupid thing to do, ask for him to come over to my place, know where I live?
Oh stop it, I tell myself as I head to my car in the huge parking lot of the campus. Riot’s on the clock, and the agency checks on him. In fact they did background checks on all their escorts to make sure they don’t have a history of violence. The website said so.
