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“Yeah, I do apologize for that… especially if I traumatized you or made you uncomfortable.”
With a smile, I lowered more in the bed. “I wouldn’t go that far. It caught me off guard, let’s just leave it there.”
“Okay, cool,” he agreed with a chuckle. “Well, I’ll let you go. I just wanted to thank you again.”
I wanted to ask him why he needed a fake girlfriend to pretend with but felt that wasn’t my business. If he wanted to share, he would have.
“Okay. Have a good evening.”
“You as well, Maritza.”
I disconnected the call quicker than I meant to, but the combination of his voice and how he used it to say my name, in his words, unnerved me just as much as his kiss. Twiddling my thumbs, I took in a few deep breaths and composed myself. No man had gotten a physical reaction out of me in quite some time, and twice today, Jeremy Phoenix had done just that.
Three
Jeremy
“Damn,” I mumbled at the sight of Sakura. She was just as beautiful as her sister, but I favored Maritza’s looks over Sakura’s. They were more pronounced and natural. Sakura, however, was shorter and thicker than Maritza, who was tall and toned. She had a nice round ass, though. Tonight, Sakura was looking more like her sister, and I think that’s why I had the reaction to her that I did. I don’t know if it was a wig or tracks, but her hair was just as long as Maritza’s natural hair and the same jet-black color. She even had it curled like her older sister usually wore hers.
She slipped out of her long, thick coat, and heads all over the lounge turned in her direction. The leather dress she had on didn’t leave much to the imagination.
“Boy… if I was twenty years younger.” Pops whistled, and I looked over at him, finding his eyes were on Sakura as well.
“Chill out. That’s Sakura, Maritza’s sister.”
“Oh, wow. She’s beautiful. No wonder she looked a little familiar. Are they twins?”
“No, and I honestly didn’t realize how much they looked alike until just now. I think it’s the hair because their styles are completely different.”
“I’ll say. The slacks and silk shirt your girl had on earlier are nothing like this little number her sister has on.”
My girl.
That’s right.
We were here because he wanted to talk to me about Maritza.
Clearing my throat, I took a sip of my whiskey as he finally pulled his eyes away from Sakura.
“Tell your future sister-in-law to be careful,” Pops continued.
“Why is that?”
“The man she’s with… that’s Timothy Blane, also known as Grim.”
Sitting up in my seat, I allowed my eyes to drift over to their table again. “Lewis Blane’s son?”
“The one and only.”
Pops chuckled. Lewis Blane was a reverend and drug dealer with a retainer at my father’s firm. Tim sold under his father, but they wouldn’t admit that, though Tim was under a retainer as well. He operated under the guise of being an entrepreneur, and I assumed that’s why Sakura was with him. If she knew who they truly were, I would think she wouldn’t want to have anything to do with him. And maybe she liked roughnecks.
Who was I to judge?
“Damn,” was all I could say. I didn’t feel comfortable telling Sakura anything about Tim, or Grim, but I would test the temperature with Maritza and see how she felt about him. “Wassup, though, Pops? I know you wanted to talk to me about Maritza. Is that your doing, or Ma?”
He chuckled, setting his glass of scotch down after taking a sip. “More her than me, but I am curious about this relationship that you’ve never mentioned before.”
“I told you I didn’t want…”
