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TANTALIZE ME

(AKA NOTHING TO GAIN)

SCARLETT FINN

Tantalize Me © 2023 Scarlett Finn

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Tantalize Me

Oh, who’s even surprised?

I spilled my drink on his fancy chinos, yes.

They call it an accident for a reason.

IS IT HAPPENSTANCE OR FATE?

This guy’s new to the area. He and his boyfriend just moved in across the street from my coffee place. Well, not my coffee place, I don’t own it or anything. I just go there every day. Now Alex does too.

I wasn’t in the market for a new BFF, but Alex is attentive, smart, the kind of guy any woman would want in her life. Yes, he also happens to be yummy hot. Just my luck he’s…

Except it’s not true.

For weeks, he’s lied to me. There’s no boyfriend. The one-bed apartment is a prop. He isn’t Alex Payne, regular Joe, he’s Xander Gauge, secret billionaire. It was all a con. Our whole friendship. Everything was fiction.

It should be over. Done. Except… he says he loves me. Can it be true? I don’t know if I can get over this.

Do I forgive him or forget him?

Warning: Contains explicit language and imagery. Suitable only for ages 18 and over.

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“Women put up with you because you buy them diamonds.”

Xander Gauge was used to his buddies not pulling their punches, but even that was damn on the nose for Lance.

“Geez, tell me how you really feel why don’t you,” Xander said, taking their food from the room service cart to slide it across the suite’s dining table to each of his friends.

“It’s true,” Ethan said, grabbing a fork, using it to gesture around the penthouse suite. “You don’t even have an apartment. You move from five-star hotel to five-star hotel. Luxury is your norm.”

“There’s no point buying somewhere,” Xander said, sitting at the circular table with his friends. “Which city would I settle in?”

“Exactly the point,” Ethan said, jabbing the fork his way before spearing a vegetable.

Narrowing his eyes, he shook his head. “What’s the point?”

“The point is, without a lot of gravy, a woman like Courtney Sarandos doesn’t go with a guy who only calls her once a month.”

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