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The night wrapped us in promise. I felt a flutter of anticipation in my chest. This trip wasn’t turning out as I had expected, but when was life ever predictable? I could enjoy Finley without getting my heart broken. I was a big girl.
He tapped my knee. “Give me your feet,” he said. “I’ll rub them.”
“I won’t turn down an offer like that. What do you get in exchange?”
His quick grin was a flash of white in the gloom. “Answers. Tell me your life story, Duchess. Warts and all.”
“Very well.” I paused, stifling a moan as his thumb dug into the arch of my foot. Damn, the man was good. I’d never had any kind of a foot fetish before today. Apparently, Finley was going to expand my horizons in more ways than one. “I’m an only child,” I said. “Willow and Hayley and I have that in common. We’re more like sisters than mere friends. I can’t imagine my life without them.”
“Go on.”
Now he was manipulating each individual toe. Sweet heaven. I managed not to shudder and moan. It was a close call. “My father owns a huge import-export business based in Atlanta and New York. I grew up mostly in Georgia, but I’m very comfortable in the Big Apple as well.”
“And your mother?”
“Social climber. Narcissist. I love her and vice versa. I’ve often wondered if she gave birth to me only because it was the thing to do. Both of my parents mostly went their own way as I was growing up. The only time they interfered in my life was if I let my grades drop or I hung around with kids they considered socially inferior.”
“Willow and Hayley?”
“Yes, for starters. But I lost touch with Willow and Hayley for a decade or more. It wasn’t until I finished college that we reconnected and resurrected our friendship.”
“Carefully cemented by the glue that is Jamie Fraser.”
“Not in the beginning. That came later. Mock all you want. You should read the books. They’re extraordinarily well written, and the stories are more than romance if that’s what you’re thinking.”
“You make a very passionate ambassador. Maybe I’ll give this Outlander thing a try.”
